8th Week of the Year

C O M P A S S I O N A T E

From your Pocket to your Heart!

Defined as ... Feeling the hurts and the needs of others and investing time or expense in what I can do to relieve them.

“People do not care how much you know until they know how much you care.”
~  Theodore Roosevelt  ~

“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
~  Mark Twain  ~

“No one has ever become poor by giving.”
~  Anne Frank  ~

COMPASSION EXEMPLIFIED

1. The Good Samaritan
(Luke 10:30-37)
2. Jesus Wept
(John 11)
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COMPASSION
SCRIPTURALLY TAUGHT

“And of some have compassion, making a difference.”
Jude 22

“Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous.”
1 Peter 3:8

“But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?”
1 John 3:17

“Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.”
Psalm 69:20

“Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee?”
Matthew 18:33