Quotes about Empathy
Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent.
— Leonard Ravenhill
May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.
— Mother Teresa
Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.
— JC Ryle
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.
— FF Bruce
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.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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.
— CS Lewis
Your prayer for someone may or may not change them, but it always changes YOU.
— Craig Groeschel
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.
— John Stott
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.
— Norman Vincent Peale
We cannot ask in behalf of Christ what Christ would not ask Himself if He were praying.
— AB Simpson
Prayer in action is love, love in action is service.
— Mother Teresa
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.
— CS Lewis