So also in a marriage or in helping a teenager through a difficult identity crisis—there is no quick fix, where you can just move in and make everything right with a positive mental attitude and a bunch of success formulas.

You cannot save people. You can only love them.

An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.

We can't always see people's pain; they can always feel our love.

...what I can do is offer myself, wholehearted and present, to walk with the people I love through the fear and the mess. That's all any of us can do. That's what we're here for.

Where there is unconditional love, the wound of one is the wound of all.

Standing near someone you love in a time of trouble is its own reward.

Until we learn to love others as ourselves, it's difficult to blame broken people who desperately try to affirm themselves when no one else will.

Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it.

I write this not for the many, but for you; each of us is enough of an audience for the other.

I fancy it must be this which, when I am with you, prevents me considering you an object of compassion, tho' Prime Minister of England; for now, when I am out of hearing of your foyning…I cannot help representing you to myself as oppressed with cares and troubles.

He now began to think of the church as called by God to "stand with those who suffer".