Now when Job's three friends heard of all these troubles that had come upon him, each of them set out from his home--Eliphaz the T...emanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They met together to go and console and comfort him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was v...ery great.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I remembered the rose bush that had reached a thorny branch out through the ragged fence, and caught my dress, detaining me whe...n I would have passed on. And again the symbolism of it all came over me. These memories and visions of the poor--they were the clutch of the thorns. Social workers have all felt it. It holds them to their work, because the thorns curve backward, and one cannot pull away.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order ...and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as ...through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I from black and he from white cloud free, And round the tent of Godlike lambs we joy,...
I'll shade him from the heat till he can bear To lean in joy upon our father's knee; And then I'll stand and stroke his silver hair, And be like him, and he will then love me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »