Quotes about Compassion
When evangelizers rise from prayer, their hearts are more open; freed of self-absorption, they are desirous of doing good and sharing their lives with others.
— Pope Francis
Prayer gives us a pure heart and a pure heart can do much.
— Mother Teresa
I join the March for Life in Washington with my prayers. May God help us respect all life, especially the most vulnerable.
— Pope Francis
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
What are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend?
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
The more we can give in our silent prayer, the more we can give in our active life.
— Mother Teresa
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
Lord, with so much violence in Iraq, may we persevere in our prayer and generosity.
— Pope Francis
Prayer is in all things, in all gestures.
— Mother Teresa
Make sickness itself a prayer.
— Francis de Sales
Prayer and sacrifice can touch souls better than words.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
I seldom made an errand to God for another but I got something for myself.
— Samuel Rutherford