Our responding to life's unfairness with sympathy... may be the surest proof of all of God's reality.

No one can deal with the hearts of men unless he has the sympathy which is given by love.

True sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold.

The humble man feels no jealousy or envy. He can praise God when others are preferred and blessed before him. He can bear to hear others praised and himself forgotten, because in God's presence he has learned to say with Paul, I am nothing.

At present there are among Christians modern Stoics who think it is wrong to groan and to weep and even to grieve in loneliness. Such wild opinions generally come forth from men who are more dreamers than practical men, and who, therefore, cannot produce anything else but fantasies.

At present, likewise, there are among Christians new Stoics who think it a vice not only to groan and weep, but even to be sad or upset. And indeed, these ridiculous ideas generally come from idle men.

Yet though these ways be lost, thou hast left one, Which is, immoderate grief that she is gone. But we may 'scape that sin, yet weep as much; Our tears are due because we are not such. Some tears, that knot of friends, her death must cost, Because the chain is broke, but no link lost.

Give me tender and supple and conformable affections, that as I joy with them that joy, and mourn with them that mourn, so I may fear with them that fear.

I don't try to live the life of my character but I think it's inevitable that there is some carry-over into your life.

Be excellent and party on dudes.

Over the years I've seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.