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Quotes About Compassion

A poem is a hand, a hook, a prayer. It is a soul in action.
~ Edward Hirsch
Before reciting his prayers, a man should give to charity.
~ Nachman of Breslov
Along with my spiritual practices of meditation, affirmative prayer, and visioning, what catalyzes my sense of aliveness is putting those practices into action by being of service to others.
~ Michael Beckwith
Prayer is in all things, in all gestures.
~ Mother Teresa
Sometimes the answer to our prayers is to become the answer to someone else's prayers.
~ Robert Breault
Lord, make me a blessing to someone today
~ Jan Karon
I began to see my life and each breath I am given as a living prayer to God and a way to pray for others for our world.
~ Mary C. Neal
Make sickness itself a prayer.
~ Saint Francis de Sales
Whole prayer is nothing but love.
~ Saint Augustine
I am in prayer for his kids and the family.
~ Diana Ross
Prayer and sacrifice can touch souls better than words.
~ Therese of Lisieux
Each person's prayers can help everyone.
~ Thomas Yellowtail
I seldom made an errand to God for another but I got something for myself.
~ Samuel Rutherford
My thoughts and prayers go out to the thousands of marathon runners, onlookers, city officials and others affected by this senseless tragedy.
~ Ed Markey
Failure to do the good that is within your power is hard to forgive. But mercy and prayer reclaim the negligent.
~ Marcus Eremita
It is precisely because we cannot see God that we can only know that our prayer is valid by the effect it has upon our lives, by the way we treat our neighbor.
~ Sheila Cassidy
Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
~ Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
The Lord heareth the prayers of those who ask to put aside hatred. But he is deaf to those who would flee from love.
~ Paulo Coelho
Satyagraha is itself an unmistakable mute prayer of an agonized soul.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
God answered the prayers of animals.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Prayer is the best response to hatred.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
~ Robert Frost
We do pray for mercy and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy.
~ William Shakespeare
Grant that we may not so much seek to be understood as to understand.
~ Saint Francis of Assisi