Quotes About Support

Did you know that the origin of the word gossip in English is god-sibling? It's the talk between people who are godparents to the same child, people who have a legitimate loving interest in the person they talk about. It's talk that weaves a net of support and connection beneath the people you want to protect.

nobody owns grief

That's what friends should do. cherish the good and pretend not to notice the harmless rest.

Maybe that's what love does - smooths the hard edges of life, giving us a gentle place to land when we fall.

We long to find someone who has been where we've been, who shares our fragile places, who sees our sunsets with the same shades of blue. Soul mates. They somehow validate the depth of our experiences.

You want to know how to love me? Love my children. You want to be good to me? Be good to my children.

Your wealth of experience makes you rich. Spend it on hurt people. They need it so badly.

Sometimes all you could do for the suffering was to make sure they knew someone was suffering right there with them. Someone who had also felt stricken, and smitten, and afflicted.

I may walk with a spiritual limp, but thanks be to God, who holds me up and urges me to lean on Him, at least I can walk. So can you. Walk away from that pit before it's the death of you.

Because showing requires going. It assumes presence. Accompaniment. I can send you somewhere and not go with you, but how can I show you something without being present?

Oh, the positive power of an instructed tongue! How many weary people do we encounter day after day who could use a sustaining word?

Assuredly, I will set you free and care for you. Assuredly, I will intercede for you. Jeremiah 15:11

It is the Lord your God who goes with you; He will not leave you or forsake you. Deuteronomy 31:6

Godly accountability is never codependency.

The Lord God has given Me the tongue of those who are instructed to know how to sustain the weary with a word. Isaiah 50:4

Thank You, Lord, for giving me the right kind of companions.

Do you think I cannot call on My Father, and He will provide me at once with more than 12 legions of angels? Matthew 26:53

Simon, Simon, look out! Satan has asked to sift you like wheat. But I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. Luke 22:31–32

A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.

Make it easy for those in need. Make their provision plain to see.

The Lord is near the brokenhearted; He saves those crushed in spirit. Psalm 34:18

I wouldn't encourage anyone to believe in a God of heaven if we had no evidence to support that He exists as the Bible says He does. The reason I teach belief in God is that, again and again, I have found Him to be astoundingly believable.

If God is not an active part in your friendships, you are missing one of life's most important treasures.

On the contrary, all the more, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are necessary. 1 Corinthians 12:22