Quotes about Support

The only way I can help you is by loving you,' Selden said in a low voice.

When your emotions feel muted or always low, when you are unable to experience the highs and lows you once did, the important question is not "How can I figure out what I have done wrong?" but it is, "Where do I turn—or, to whom do I turn—when I am depressed?" Some turn toward their beds and isolation; others turn toward other people. Some turn away from God; others turn toward him.

Even desperate people are slow to ask for help.

Knowing and being known—by design we enjoy human connections, and those connections are forged over time through normal interactions and questions that gradually ask for more. Such connections are the foundations for mutual help, and they are helpful in themselves since they are expressions of love.

Side by side is most suitable for helping.

Whatever our monument might be, we want it to be public, even if the public is one friend.

You can probably identify your friends' gifts rather quickly

In our attempts to help, we can overinterpret suffering.

Imagine how aloneness could gradually be banished.

Do not end the conversation without an offer to pray. Ask what he needs prayer for and either pray right then or pray later and then follow up the next time you see him.

Once we pray with or for someone, we are in the ongoing story of his life, and it is an honor to be there.

We don't aim to draw out problems so that we can be helpers. We are simply interested in knowing another person, which is a basic feature of everyday love.