Quotes About Support

When you say I love you very much , and your asthma's attack occurs, there is no time for palaver because instead of very you have to say call the ambulance .

If there's one thing in the world more annoying than being dependent on someone, it's when that someone constantly reminds you that you are dependent on him.

And when they started moving, he looked in the rear-view mirror and gave Eddie a sad wink, which somehow made the whole thing almost bearable.

It's always okay to admit you are struggling. Why

Within the realm of mental reactions, when you know what is yours and what is someone else's, it makes it easier to help another human being, because you no longer take their confusion so personally.

human beings are simply not self-sufficient. We rely on each other for work, education, sustenance, friendship, art, culture, community, and love.Yet so much of the time we scurry from place to place, task to task, moment to moment, craving isolation and feigning anonymity. This is the paradox of contemporary living.

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence.

We should be willing to act as a balm for all wounds.

A man's ability to depend on his comrades and immediate leadership is absolutely necessary.

Never walk away from someone who deserves help; your hand is God's hand for that person.

Morris again. "This is good, helpful. Now that we are talking this way, I realize that for those twenty years that I was an engineer sitting in the pew each Sunday, I never had a patient pastor—they were all trying to get me 'with the program,' shape me up, get me, as they put it, 'involved.' I don't want to become a pastor like that. I don't think that is what pastors are for.

Scripture knows nothing of the solitary Christian. People of faith are always members of a community. Creation itself was not complete until there was community, Adam needing Eve before humanity was whole. God never works with individuals in isolation, but always with people in community.

God loves you. He's on your side. He's coming after you. He's relentless.

God comes alongside us when we go through hard times, and before you know it, he brings us alongside someone else who is going through hard times so that we can be there for that person just as God was there for us.-2 Corinthians 1:4

The life of faith has the support of an entire creation and the resources of a magnificent redemption. The structure of this world was created by God so we can live in it easily and happily as his children. The history we walk in has been repeatedly entered by God, most notably in Jesus Christ, first to show us and then to help us live full of faith and exuberant with purpose.

My job is not to solve people's problems or make them happy, but to help them see the grace operating in their lives.

And where was the support for that kind of preparation? There are all kinds of medicines and medical devices and clinics and even hospice care to prolong life and make it as easeful as possible—but who helps you to really prepare for it, philosophically? Who teaches you how to embrace it? Is there anyone out there who really does that?

It is easier to find guides, someone to tell you what to do, than someone to be with you in a discerning, prayerful companionship as you work it out yourself. This is what spiritual direction is.

My mother was in the bathtub crying and I was standing outside the door waiting, just in case she decided to slip her head under and keep it there. The other kids were upstairs. The problem was about money, of course. She was afraid she wouldn't have enough for us to eat.

I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief

It is a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be loved by many friends.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

It is a good thing to be rich, and it is a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be loved of many friends.