And we urge you, brothers, warn those who are idle, encourage the timid, help the weak, be patient with everyone.

If you get stuck and things don't improve, be willing to get outside help.

but God wants to bring us to the end of ourselves so that we would see our need for a relationship with him as well as with others.

Why bother with other people?

They have all faced the difficulty of having relationships with flawed people in a broken world, and they have opted to check out.

Oh God, you know I have no money, but you can make the people do for me, and you must make the people do for me.

Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt, a grave heresy, but it is also a fact.

Do you think that I would not have let you know that, if you suffered, I was suffering too: that if you wept there were tears in my eyes also: and that if you lay in the house of bondage and were despised of men, I out of my griefs had built a house in which to dwell until your coming, a treasury in which all that man had denied to you would be laid up for your healing, one hundredfold in increase?

Who are you? he said. I am the Happy Prince. Why are you weeping then? asked the swallow; you have quite drenched me.

There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.

Nor do I in any way approve of the modern sympathy with invalids.  I consider it morbid.  Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. 

All I want now is to look at life. You may come and look at it with me, if you care to