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".

Mere waiting and looking on is not Christian behaviour. The Christian is called to sympathy and action, not in the first place by his own sufferings, but by the sufferings of his brethren, for whose sake Christ suffered.

Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend's griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother's happiness.

I think my job is hopefully to connect with people emotionally and to feel less alone or understand things in a certain way.

Whatever the reason is, I am happiest when connecting with the human experience. It lets me know that I'm not alone in this world.

Everybody who has ever been snubbed, you know that is very humiliating.