Lewis B. Smedes Quotes

As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.

When you meet the needy your heart grows bigger

We are surrounded by those in need of our attention, our encouragement, our support, our comfort, our kindness... We are the Lord’s hands here upon the earth, with the mandate to serve and to lift His children. He is dependent upon each of us

I will to make life less bitter for a few within my reach.

Compassion is a verb.

He almosted smiled. "There you go again. Why? Why do yo keep helping me?" There were a million answers on my lips, everything from It's the right thing to do to I don't know. Instead, I said, "Because I want to.

There's something inside of me that makes me want to help people, especially people who are having difficulty of some kind.

Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice.

To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others. Even the briefest touch of kindness can lighten a heavy heart. Kindness can change the lives of people.

Even if you don't have anything, even if you've got a quarter in your pocket, to share with someone else who has nothing really helps.

Compassion, along with love, is the face of altruism.

No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.

Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.

I never think people should do things for me. I think I should do things for others. That makes me more comfortable.

it is the personal and individual thing which is done by one human being for another that is the most valuable assistance which can be rendered in time of trouble. Better not only for the one who receives, but a thousand times happier for the one who gives.

When you hear about what someone else is going through, and you are unable to distance yourself from it or in any way muzzle your empathy and are inspired to actually do something, these are moments to learn from.

People like to help. They like to be able to do something for you. Let them.

We should be with people who are in need.

Always show more kindness than seems necessary, because the person receiving it needs it more than you will ever know.

You can always give something, even if it is only kindness.

Giving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has to give of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding.

Charity isn't about pity, it is about love.

Would we hold liberty, we must have charity- charity to others, charity to ourselves, crawling up from the moist ovens of a steaming world, still carrying the passional equipment of our ferocious ancestors, emerging from black superstition amid carnage and atrocity to our perilous present.

You don't need a reason to help people.