In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others. from Letters and Papers from...
I helped a man climb a mountain and found that I, too, had reached the top. ----------------------------------------------Gender-neutral version: I helped someone climb a mountain and found that I, too, had reached the top.
I wanted to take mental illnesses and emotional disorders out of the closet, to let people know it is all right to admit having a problem without fear of being called crazy. If only we could consider mental illnesses as straightforwardly as we do physical illnesses,...
When you are emotionally, physically, or spiritually weary: stop, look, and find anyone or anything that helps you to say thank you. Being thankful is good medicine for whatever ails us.
In my present season of grief and regret, I am finding that there is no way through apart from gratitude, and that, in fact, thankfulness is my greatest help. Not a plaster of it applied on the wound, not some anesthetic thanks to numb or replace the sadness, but...
Christianity is about helping others and controlling yourself. When it becomes about controlling others and helping yourself, it ain't Christianity.
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks...
Discipline is helping a child solve a problem. Punishment is making a child suffer for having a problem. To raise problem solvers, focus on solutions.
Rather than defining success by the brand of clothing we can afford, may we find it in the number of people we have helped to clothe.
It’s not that God won’t give you more than you can handle, but that God will help you handle all that you’ve been given. from Half Truths: God Helps Those Who Help Themselves