Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

I am deeply grateful for the concern of all those who constantly prayed for my happiness.

Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.

Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

I've never thought about it before, but I suppose bad people might need someone to pray to, too.

Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.

Religious people... hold a kind and merciful view of life, the faith of the broken, the hounded, the hopeless. Yet too often, they will not extend that spirit to our fellow creatures.

Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.

The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.

Why does God endow us with compassion?

I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others.

When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

The Lord will give you, if you ask, the feelings of the compassion He feels for those in need.

This idea of compassion comes to us because we're made in the image of God, who is ultimately the compassionate one.

They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness.

The best way is to say that as a Christian for me the essence of Christian faith is that you treat others as if you wish to be treated.

They charge me with fanaticism. If to be feelingly alive to the suffering of my fellow creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

Giving is just one way of expressing that God has been good to you and will continue to do so through your being good to others.

As a practicing Catholic all my life, my faith and the church are never far from my mind. The lessons I learned in the church have structured the way I've approached my life and my career. They were lessons of grace, kindness, forgiveness, and compassion.

Instead of getting angry at somebody for opposing you on something, you're just praying for them. You just pray blessings on them, blessings on their family.

I'd like to thank everyone for all their support and prayers. I'm so humbled by that.

When we say, 'We're here for you,' we mean it to this point - everything we do, everything we preach, every broadcast we come on, everywhere we minister, everything we say and do is prayed, engineered, designed to minister to the people.

You pray for your enemies.