Quotes About Compassion

Your prayer for someone may or may not change them, but it always changes YOU.

I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone.

It is impossible to pray for someone without loving him, and impossible to go on praying for him without discovering that our love for him grows and matures.

Intercessory prayer might be defined as loving our neighbour on our knees.

Scatter good will and love and prayers all around, everywhere, and you will be astonished, not only by what it does for other people, but how it comes back to you in generous abundance.

Let all beings in all the worlds be happy. Include this universal prayer in your prayers every day. This is my birthday message to you.

The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.

Forgiving the men who killed my parents and brother was a process, a journey into deeper and deeper prayer.

Intercession is the most unselfish thing anyone can do.

Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.

If we could all hear one another's prayers, God might be relieved of some of his burdens.

Each activity of daily life in which we stretch ourselves on behalf of others is a prayer in action.

In these times of suffering prayer is of even more help.

No one who has had a unique experience with prayer has a right to withhold it from others.

Prayer is an attitude of the heart.

My prayer is, let me be a blessing to someone or something today.

Prayer in action is love, love in action is service.

We are never more like Christ than in prayers of intercession.

More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

I offered up a special prayer, a prayer which came with tears and anguish, that some way would open up for me to use what talents I possessed for my fellow workers, for the poor.

We must reflect the light of Christ through lives of prayer and joyful service to others.

It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.

If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house.

The efficacy of our prayers depends on how much we care for one another.