Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions. Dante Alighieri
Here understand I in truth that all manner of things are made ready for us by the great goodness of God, so far forth that what time we be ourselves in peace and charity, we be verily saved. Julian of Norwich
The materials of the first temple were made ready in solitude. Those of the last also must be shaped in retirement; in the silence of the heart; in the quietness of home; in the practice of unostentatious duty. Henry Giles