Pay attention Quote by Simone Weil

The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a…

— Simone Weil

“For believers in Christ, affliction often has a softening effect on the heart. This is why cancer patients are posting uplifting thoughts in my…

— Jared C. Wilson

“Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.”

— C.S. Lewis

“Persons under the shock of genuine affliction are not only upset mentally but are all unbalanced physically. No matter how calm and controlled they…

— Emily Post

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening…

— Simone Weil

“Be guided only by the healer of the sick, the raiser of the dead, the friend of all who were afflicted and forlorn, the…

— Charles Dickens

“Apathy is the bushel basket under which the ego hides its fear of being powerless. It is easier to become apathetic when there are…

— Darren Main

“... through medicine it is possible to reach the unreachable - even the ones who most of us forget about or actively try to…

— Matt McCarthy

“Be patient in affliction.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Afflictions quicken us to prayer. It is a pity it should be so; but experience testifies, that a long course of ease and prosperity,…

— John Newton

“The path of compassion does not obligate you to love people regardless of how they act or who they are. It is a path…

— Sanaya Roman

“When someone is suffering, there is a deep, visceral reaction in the core of our being, a flood of empathy and a frightfully desperate…

— Bryant McGill