Quotes about Compassion
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
I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone.
— DL Moody
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
In these times of suffering prayer is of even more help.
— Pope Francis
Prayer in action is love, love in action is service.
— Mother Teresa
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.
— Dorothy Day
We must reflect the light of Christ through lives of prayer and joyful service to others.
— Pope John Paul II
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
No prayers can be heard which do not come from a forgiving heart.
— JC Ryle
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.
— George Bernard Shaw