E. M. Forster Quotes

Whenever I see a homeless guy, I always run back and give him money, because I think, 'Oh my God, what if that was Jesus?'

Anyone who has two shirts when someone has none is not a christian.

To feel sorry for the needy is not the mark of a Christian - to help them is.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'

You need an attitude of service. You're not just serving yourself. You help others to grow up and you grow with them.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

I'd rather have happiness than money. People ask for it. Sometimes when I don't have it. I make other people's problems my problem because they want me to; they ask me to.

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

I don't believe we're only motivated by our own self-interests. Often out of crisis comes this enormous wellspring of generosity and motivation.

The feeling of being accepted and acknowledgement and recognition and fame - I'm vain like everybody else. The feeling of achievement that I've helped the poor or somebody in need far outweighs the money.

I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.

We have to humble ourselves and the way you do that is by serving other people.

To lose yourself in righteous service to others can lift your sights and get your mind off personal problems, or at least put them in proper focus.

If I can help one person, why wouldn't I?

Every merciful act to the needy, the suffering, is as though done to Jesus.

My mother wasn't a very patient woman. If I complained about being lonely or bored, she'd tell me to go help someone, anyone. To this day, when I start feeling sorry for myself, I look for a good deed to do.

Make sure you are safe, and never ever put yourself in a compromising situation, but once that is checked off the list, I think it's really important for us to remember that someone needs us, and that your act of giving/helping/doing can truly become an act of grace once you get out of your head.

I'm not the perfect person, but I have the perfect heart, I feel, when it comes to helping people.

Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, frankly, opportunism.

Sometimes in life, we try to do our very best to help others, and in the process, it brings some anguish to us. But we can't ever let that stop us. We can't ever be stopped from helping others and allowing them to have some sense of happiness and joy in their life.

Inherently I think the goodness in most people, we get a warm sense of satisfaction if we help someone, it makes you feel better.

My heart always likes to give, and if I'm going to help somebody it might as well be someone who can't help themselves.

My mum's amazing. She's the person I admire most, I think, in her sacrifice to me and my sister and her level of emotional sacrifice to people around her. She takes a high level of personal responsibility for the welfare of people around her.

Jesus has said "Come, blessed of my Father, take the seat in the kingdom prepared for you, because I was hungry you gave me food, I was thirsty you have me drink, I was naked you clothed me, I was homeless you took me home and I was sick you visited me." And we are just doing that.

Help one another: this is what Jesus teaches us and this what I am doing, and doing with all my heart.