Compassion Quote by Matthew Henry

When God intends great mercy for his people, he first of all sets them praying.

— Matthew Henry

When God is about to give His people the expected good, He pours out a Spirit of prayer, and it is a good sign…

— Matthew Henry

Whenever God is ready to do something new with His people, He always sets them to praying.

— J. Edwin Orr

Whenever GOD determines to do a great work, HE first sets HIS people to pray.

— Charles Spurgeon

When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.

— Jonathan Edwards

We do pray for mercy, and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy.

— William Shakespeare

When God wants to have mercy on someone, He inspires someone else to pray for him, and He helps in this prayer.

— Silouan the Athonite

When God will have any great matters done, he sets his people's hearts to work at prayer by a kind of gracious instinct. He…

— Thomas Goodwin

“Mercy, GOD, mercy!”: the prayer is not an attempt to get God to do what he is unwilling otherwise to do, but a reaching…

— Eugene H. Peterson

“Prayer opens on something purer and grander than mercy, something that puts aside the consciousness of fault, the residue of judgment that makes mercy…

— Marilynne Robinson

If, as Niko asks, you show them mercy, then the gods will be well pleased.

— Janet Morris

When God's mercies are coming, their footfalls are our desires to pray.

— Charles Spurgeon