Frederick Buechner quote: Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is ...

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for ...

~ Frederick Buechner ~

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