Quotes about Support

Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.

Of all the things that wisdom provides to help one live one's entire life in happiness, the greatest by far is the possession of friendship.

In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.

Family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about.

Christians crawled out of the woodwork when crisis hit... Christians weren't roaches.

Distant or near, in joy or in sorrow, each in the other sees his true helper to brotherly freedom.

But I'm afraid I'm bad at comforting; I can listen all right, but I can hardly ever find anything to say.

Where a people prays, there is the hurch; and where the church is; there is never loneliness.

You are called into the community of faith; the call was not meant for you alone. You carry your cross, you struggle, and you pray in the community of faith, the community of those who are called.

We can never achieve this 'wholeness' simply by ourselves, but only together with others…

The church is church only when it is there for others.

How could one person pray the prayer of the community without being held up and supported in prayer by the community itself? At precisely this point every word of criticism must be transformed into more faithful intercession and mutual help. How easily a community can split apart if this is not done!