Quotes about Caring
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained
- CS Lewis
The shortest distance between two hearts is compassion.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa
Despite what skeptics and critics sometimes say, followers of Jesus have transformed the world in all sorts of ways in the last two thousand years. It was Jesus's followers, after all, who went about caring for the poor, tending the sick, and providing education for people of all sorts (not only the rich or the elite). There is no reason why Jesus's followers should not continue this work and every reason why they should.
- NT Wright
The Bible welcomes us to bring our cares to God because he cares for us (1 Pet. 5:7).
- Paul David Tripp
Love that cares, listens.
- Paul Tillich
But Jacob replied, “My lord knows that the children are frail, and I must care for sheep and cattle that are nursing their young. If they are driven hard for even a day, all the animals will die.
- Genesis 33:13
If you see your brother’s ox or sheep straying, you must not ignore it; be sure to return it to your brother.
- Deuteronomy 22:1
And you shall do the same for his donkey, his cloak, or anything your brother has lost and you have found. You must not ignore it.
- Deuteronomy 22:3
Now when Job’s three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—heard about all this adversity that had come upon him, each of them came from his home, and they met together to go and sympathize with Job and comfort him.
- Job 2:11
if I have eaten my morsel alone, not sharing it with the fatherless—
- Job 31:17
Keep me as the apple of Your eye; hide me in the shadow of Your wings
- Psalm 17:8