Billy Graham Quotes

All around you are people whose lives are filled with trouble and sorrow, and they need your compassion and encouragement.

When you are instructed by affliction, you can become a comforter to the afflicted.

Those who have suffered make the best comforters.

Through pain I've learned to comfort suffering men

My assignment is to take my situation and to use it to help others who feel hopeless and/or helpless because of loss.

When you are in the midst of suffering you are looking for someone to be Jesus to you. You are looking for someone to love you and help take care of you, and reach out to you.

Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.

Humor is imperative, more important than food. You have a choice when someone dies. You can lie down or get back into life. Do something for someone else.

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

When bad things happen he’s the consoler in chief. When good things happen, he’s the celebrator in chief.

People who have suffered know more about compassion.

One thing that we can do for each other is support each other. At one point or another, we all go through trials and tribulations, so giving your time is one way to help.

I use my experience to comfort and support others for whom life has no hope.

Many of us have experienced the pain that comes with watching a loved one suffer with a serious illness. We also know that we would do absolutely anything it takes to help them beat it.

I enjoy Impact so much because some places, if they see you down, they won't be good enough to come take your hand and help you with what you're going through.

If someone is having a bad day, I find you can change it pretty quick by just showing that you care.

Trials make more room for consolation. There is nothing that makes a man have a big heart like a great trial. I always find that little, miserable people, whose hearts are about the size of a grain of mustard seed, never have had much to try them. I have found that those people who have no sympathy for their fellows — who never weep for the sorrows of others — very seldom have had any woes of their own. Great hearts can only be made by great troubles.

People, although having their own cross to carry, can minister to others through their own pain.

I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched.

Our work is to keep our hearts open in hell.

To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.

consolation is a beautiful word. everyone skins his knee-that doesnt make yours hurt anyless.

I can't heal your pain but I can see it. And you don't have to be lost. Not forever.

If you want to live your whole life free from pain you must become either a god or else a corpse. Consider other men's troubles and that will comfort you.

By remembering that I don't know sadness or pain like the people do in the camp and to be sad will not help them.