Saint Augustine Quotes

Her hands quieted. "Yeah. Because even if the law says that no one is responsible for anyone else, helping someone who needs it is the right thing to do." I sat down beside her, close enough that the skin of her arm hummed right next to mine. "You really believe that?" She looked down at her lap "Yeah." Then how," I asked, "can you walk away from me?

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

How can you regret helping a suffering patient?

I think we - the way to stop anything violent or anything wrong is by really just paying attention to your own circle. You only can help the world by helping the people next to you.

If I saw someone in need and I did nothing, I'd be defacing my own humanity.

Not everyone is able to show courage, but human decency must be demanded of every person.

I am often, I believe, praying for others when I should be doing things for them. It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see him.

I don't want to live in the kind of world where we don't look out for each other. Not just the people that are close to us, but anybody who needs a helping hand. I cant change the way anybody else thinks, or what they choose to do, but I can do my bit.

It's such a simple thing, really. It's an awareness that the other people in the world are other people, and that you are one of them. That every time you have a chance to help somebody out, to do what's right instead of what you think you're supposed to do, you should do it.

It's possible that the priest and the Levite looked over that man on the ground and wondered if the robbers were still around. Or it's possible that they felt that the man on the ground was merely faking. And he was acting like he had been robbed and hurt, in order to seize them over there, lure them there for quick and easy seizure. And so the first question that the Levite asked was, "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But then the Good Samaritan came by. And he reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

We all have burdens and we need to learn to carry each other's burdens, lighten each other's load.

Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.

With all the things I've been through, the No. 1 thing that I've learned is that we're supposed to help people through this world.

May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him!

I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'

What makes a fulfilling relationship or fulfilling life is not simply found in another. It's found in a group of others.

Having felt people's love and support first hand through difficult moments in my life makes me feel it's our responsibility to help one another.

I think it all comes down to relationships - how I treat my wife, how I treat my kids, how I treat the guys at the grocery store, all aspects of every day, what I'm involved in.

I hope that 9/11 has grouped us as one, and in doing so it has united us. Perhaps as a unit we can help each other get ahead, survive and succeed in this free world. And hey guys, let's not forget out manners!!

I think what makes us human - is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human.

One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve.