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Quotes about Compassion

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
Our prayers and fastings are of less avail, unless they are aided by almsgiving.
— St. Cyprian
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
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
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