Quotes About Support

Now, Doc—" "Yes, Shiloh?" She interrupted with exaggerated sweetness, and fluttered her eyelashes. Shiloh grinned. "I dunno, I musta gone crazy there for a minute. I was actually going to try to talk you out of something. But don't worry, I'm okay now.

There's nothing so bad in the world that dog kisses won't make it better

SECRET #20 Sometimes the best medicine isn't medicine at all.

Come with me. It's so much better than coming alone. (Lucan whispered to Lena)

Impossible. But you know I'm there in spirit. In the middle of a ball, at the theater or even at court I'm here, inside you. Where I belong.

The bruises on my arm?"she asked. From pulling you up,"he explained."I'm sorry."He touched her arm as if he were trying to take away the pain.

I gradually slid into believing my quieter, less visible life could not possibly matter as much as his. What was important was to keep Bill going, make his life manageable, facilitate his ministry.

In times of great crisis, Americans have traditionally turned to their president for leadership, and they did so with Roosevelt now.

In the earliest days of World War II when London was undergoing the blitz but the United States had not yet been drawn into the hostilities, the US ambassador walked the streets during the hottest of the bombing and ask people at every level of British society what he could do to help. What a picture of our role as ambassadors of Christ's coming Kingdom!

The drama of Dunkirk and the eloquence of Churchill helped convince many Americans that their country must give Britain all possible support in its lonely struggle against Germany.

My dance on the pedestal was my friendship with Maureen. I wasn't sure how I had lost my balance and fallen off. Or whether I was pushed. Everyone around me was trying to get me to dance again. The thing was, I hadn't quite given up on getting back up there. I still believed it was the only place where I could be happy.

Collaboration leads us to and grounds us in sufficiency.

See, you have to marry me. I seem to scare off all the help.

When a man is physically present but emotionally absent, a girl's heart can feel quite hollow and helpless. This is true whether that man is her father, her husband, or even a man whom she deeply respects.

People don't mind doing CPR on a crisis victim, but no person is equipped to be the constant lifeline to another.

The…destructive…message is that the parents don't trust their children to do what they are supposed to do whether it be learning to fall asleep on their own, figuring out how to safely climb a tree, or remembering to do the homework assignment. This message is especially harmful. Children cannot believe in themselves if the most important people in their lives don't believe in them.

But weeping with them and rejoicing with them does not mean trying to take control of their out-of-control choices and behaviors. We can forgive them. But we cannot control them. And we should not enable them.

Why did this happen? Because there's someone else in the world who would drown in their own tears if not for seeing yours.

Our disappointments in ourselves—in our lives—aren't just isolated pieces of evidence that we fall short and life is hard. No, they are the exact places where we can break secrecy with fellow humans and show up to say, "Me too. I get it. I understand. You aren't alone. Together, we can find our way home.

Numbing the pain never goes to the source of the real issue to make us healthier. It only silences our screaming need for help.

I'd believe I had prayed about things, but in reality I'd only worried about them, talked to friends about them, and tried to figure out how to solve them myself.

When I said, "My foot is slipping," your love, O LORD, supported me. When anxiety was great within me, your consolation brought joy to my soul. (PSALM 94:18 – 19)

The emptiness in your heart because that person you love doesn't seek to really understand you, rarely cheers you on, and doesn't seem to want to connect intimately with you.

sometimes when you can't find your footing with your own faith, you just have to go stand on someone else's for a while.