It is not a bending toward the underprivileged from a privileged position; it is not a reaching out from on high to those who are less fortunate below; it is not a gesture of sympathy or pity for those who fail to make it in the upward pull. On the contrary, compassion means going directly to those people and places where suffering is most acute and building a home there. God's compassion is total, absolute, unconditional and without reservation. It is compassion of the one who keeps going to the most forgotten corners of the world, and who cannot rest as long as he knows that there is still human beings with tears in their eyes.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
From Compassion A Reflection on Christian Life
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