David Livingstone Quotes

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.

Let me emphatically point out that … sympathy is useless unless it is accompanied by indignation, and indignation is useless if it exhausts itself in words instead of taking shape in deeds.

Sympathy butters no parsnips.

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

I say let's respond as best we can to the victims and their families.

One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.

The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting.

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.

Please know that my thoughts and prayers, as well as those of many, many others here in Alabama and around the country, are with each of you during this time.

A little help is better than a lot of pity.

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.

People respond to real problems from the heart.

When we say, 'We're here for you,' we mean it to this point - everything we do, everything we preach, every broadcast we come on, everywhere we minister, everything we say and do is prayed, engineered, designed to minister to the people.

Sympathy is important, but it rings hollow if not followed by action.

We should care about each other.

A lot of my friends ask me for advice.

Your sympathy is worthless to people in need without action.

Compassion is a mind that removes the suffering that is present in the other.

I know my mother would be overwhelmed by the continued outpouring of kindness and I want to thank everyone for keeping us in their prayers.

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.

Compassion can be described as letting ourselves be touched by the vulnerability and suffering that is within ourselves and all beings. The full flowering of compassion also includes action: Not only do we attune to the presence of suffering, we respond to it.

The people in Louisiana must know that all across our country there's a lot of prayer - prayer for those whose lives have been turned upside down. And I'm one of them.

The wrong thing to do about any given circumstance or situation is to do nothing.

If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.