Quotes About Compassion

When God wants to have mercy on someone, He inspires someone else to pray for him, and He helps in this prayer.

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing: May all that have life be delivered from suffering.

Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!

Pray for 'all men.' We usually pray more for things than we do for men. Our prayers should be thrown across their pathway as they rush in their downward course to a lost eternity.

Curses are children of hate; they belong to the wrong family! Prayers are better than curses!

Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor.

No prayers can be heard which do not come from a forgiving heart.

Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.

Peace does not come through prayer, we human beings must create peace.

When evangelizers rise from prayer, their hearts are more open; freed of self-absorption, they are desirous of doing good and sharing their lives with others.

HELPED are those whose every act is a prayer for peace; on them depends the future of the world.

Prayer gives us a pure heart and a pure heart can do much.

Be careful before leaving someone in a sorrowing situation. Say a word of prayer with them and share even a brief word of encouragement from the Scriptures.

What are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend?

It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.

The people in Louisiana must know that all across our country there's a lot of prayer - prayer for those whose lives have been turned upside down. And I'm one of them.

We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.

The more we can give in our silent prayer, the more we can give in our active life.

I would like to emphasize again that right prayer leads to right action, that faith without works is dead. An excellent way to put thoughts into action is to write a letter for peace.

Worship and intercession must go together, the one is impossible without the other. Intercession means that we rouse ourselves up to get the mind of Christ about the one for whom we pray.

Prayer, humility, and charity toward all are essential in the Christian life: they are the way to holiness.

Lord, with so much violence in Iraq, may we persevere in our prayer and generosity.

Those whose lives were lost on September 11 will remain in our thoughts and prayers forever.