Quotes about Support

Friends are like coals in a fire - together, they glow; apart, they grow cold.

When we all help each other out, when we stand together, we are stronger together.

Churchgoers are like coals in a fire. When they cling together, they keep the flame aglow; when they separate, they die out.

We've been given the covenant community because we need each other, and together we'll be more mature, experience more life, and know more joy than we ever would apart from one another.

Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.

As people grow older, some of the ways they have contributed in the past may no longer be possible, but the challenge to society is not only to provide help and care where these are needed but also to offer the opportunity to contribute and care for others

We're married. I will protect you. I will die for you. Better than that. I will live for you.

It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break; the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose their job which sees us through our darkest hours. It is the firefighter's courage to storm a stairway filled with smoke, but also a parent's willingness to nurture a child, that finally decides our fate.

But by the end of two years, most have either changed careers or moved to suburban schools - a consequence of low pay, a lack of support from the educational bureaucracy, and a pervasive feeling of isolation.

In return, I gave him a sounding board for his frustrations.

I couldn't rid myself of the sense that Roy was in danger somehow, that old demons were driving him toward an abyss, and that if only I was a better brother, my intervention would prevent his fall.

Thanks for sticking with this," Axe said, his voice choked up. I put my arm around him, feeling my own emotions swell. "This is why we do the work," I said. "This. Right here.