Quotes About Empathy

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

I'll like to tell all the people who wrote me and said a prayer for me, thank you from the bottom of my heart.

By becoming the answer to someone's prayer, we often find the answer to our own.

Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.

Empathy feels these thoughts; your hurt is in my heart, your loss is in my prayers, your sorrow is in my soul, and your tears are in my eyes.

So let us all who pray ask for what most of them need badly, a sense of humor to lighten their way through life, making it merrier for themselves and easier for others.

Persistence in prayer for someone whom we don't like, however much it goes against the grain to begin with, brings about a remarkable change in attitude.

It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion toward our fellow creatures.

I am often, I believe, praying for others when I should be doing things for them. It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see him.

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

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.

Intercession is the most unselfish thing anyone can do.

We cannot ask in behalf of Christ what Christ would not ask Himself if He were praying.

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.

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.

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.

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.