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Quotes About Empathy

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.
~ Dalai Lama
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.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
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.
~ Edward McKendree Bounds
Curses are children of hate; they belong to the wrong family! Prayers are better than curses!
~ Phyllis Bottome
Sometimes when your child talks, your friends cannot understand what he says; but the mother understands very well. So if our prayer comes from the heart, God understands our language.
~ Dwight L. Moody
Prayer is more than words. It's listening, seeing and feeling.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
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.
~ Billy Graham
It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.
~ William Gurnall
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.
~ George W. Bush
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.
~ Peace Pilgrim
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.
~ Oswald Chambers
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
Once upon hearing a friend's bashing comment I said, "Did you reach that conclusion on your own, or did it come through prayer?"
~ Marvin J. Ashton
I am in prayer for his kids and the family.
~ Diana Ross
Prayer and sacrifice can touch souls better than words.
~ Therese of Lisieux
My thoughts and prayers go out to the thousands of marathon runners, onlookers, city officials and others affected by this senseless tragedy.
~ Ed Markey
I felt the ruthfulness and senselessness of war so acutlely that I wrote the first three stanzas of which, are in effect a prayer.
~ Richard Eberhart
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
Prayer is the best response to hatred.
~ Charles Spurgeon
A fly rod extends a fly fisher's being as surely as do imagination, empathy or prayer.
~ David James
Before I put on my make up, I say a little prayer for you.
~ Dionne Warwick
Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
~ Robert Frost
Grant that we may not so much seek to be understood as to understand.
~ Saint Francis of Assisi