Sympathy (Greek sumpathēs, "fellow-suffering") is the fellow-feeling of another’s pain that moves the soul to compassionate response. Christ is the high priest "touched with the feeling of our infirmities" (Hebrews 4:15) — He does not pity us from a distance but enters our experience by His own incarnate sufferings. Peter therefore commands the church: "having compassion one of another" (1 Peter 3:8). Sympathy is more than awareness; it is the soul actually bending toward another’s grief to bear it. The cold detachment of the modern professional class — even in pulpits — fails this Christian virtue. Sympathy keeps the strong gentle with the weak, the husband patient with his wife, and the father careful with his children.