Quotes about Support

Encourage literally came from "in courage." The courage is put "into" you from outside. Our character and abilities grow through internalizing from others what we do not possess in ourselves.

Truett was more interested in the business growing people than he was in people growing the business. And that's exactly how his business grew. When you are FOR the people in and around your business, the people in and around your business become FOR you.

The international sign to know if someone needs encouraging," Truett said, "is if they are breathing. If they're breathing, they need encouraging.

If your suffering splashes others, those around you, those for whom you represent a reason to live, then you must kill it, choke it.

God does not create other people so we could turn our backs on them.

I cannot cure everybody. I cannot help everybody. But to tell the lonely person that I am not far or different from that lonely person, that I am with him or her, that's all I think we can do and we should do.

Help each other. That is the only way to survive.

Most people's initial reaction to sad people is to try to cheer them up, to tell them not to look at things so grimly, to look at the bright side of life. This cheering-up reaction is often an expression of that person's own needs and that person's own inability to tolerate a long face over an extended period. A mourner should be allowed to experience his sorrow, and he will be grateful for those who can sit with him without telling him not to be sad.

Your assignment from God is not to change your husband, but to love, follow, assist, and minister to him.

If you want a good friend, you need to be a good friend!

When you love someone, you can't help but pray for them.

There is no substitute for the strength that blesses a couple when they work together.