Quotes on Helping

As a kid, I was always building things. My father had a shop in the house, and we built things - we were kind of a project family. I started out as a painter, and then painting led to cinema, and in cinema, you get to build so many things, or help build them.

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.

People assume when they come into a church and see a person up there speaking, 'That person must be a good person.' My challenge through the years has been believing that: 'I guess I must be a really good person.' I struggle with it. It just helps me to keep that confessional posture.

We have all been hearing from childhood of such things as love, peace, charity, equality, and universal brotherhood; but they have become to us mere words without meaning, words which we repeat like parrots, and it has become quite natural for us to do so. We cannot help it.

The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts.

If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help.

Make it a rule and pray to God to help you keep it . . . never, if possible, to lie down at night without being able to say "I have made one human being at least a little wiser, a little happier, or a little better this day."

I thought that I was in heaven _x000D_ _x000D_ But I was sure surprised _x000D_ _x000D_ Heaven help me, I didn't see _x000D_ _x000D_ The devil in your eyes_x000D_ _x000D_ You look like an angel _x000D_ _x000D_ Walk like an angel _x000D_ _x000D_ Talk like an angel_x000D_ _x000D_ But I got wise _x000D_ _x000D_ You're the devil in disguise _x000D_ _x000D_ Oh yes you are _x000D_ _x000D_ The devil in disguise

The only society that works today is also one founded on mutual respect, on a recognition that we have a responsibility collectively and individually, to help each other on the basis of each other's equal worth. A selfish society is a contradiction in terms.

But most it is presumption in us when the help of heaven we count the act of men.

The efforts of governments alone will never be enough. In the end, the people must choose and the people must help themselves.

The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

...as parents, we have to find the time and the energy to step in and help our children love reading. We can read to them, talk to them about what they're reading, and make time for this by turning off the television set ourselves. Libraries are a critical tool to help parents do this.

It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without physic, and secure without a guard; to obtain from the bounty of nature, what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of artists and attendants, of flatterers and spies.

Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again.

Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.

This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others.

True charity requires courage: Let us overcome the fear of getting our hands dirty so as to help those in need.

Right from the moment of our birth, we are under the care and kindness of our parents, and then later on in our life when we are oppressed by sickness and become old, we are again dependent on the kindness of others. Since at the beginning and end of our lives we are so dependent on other's kindness, how can it be in the middle that we would neglect kindness towards others?

The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others. Rather, we must criticize ourselves. How much am I doing about my anger? About my attachment, about my hatred, about my pride, my jealousy? These are the things which we must check in daily life.