Saint Augustine Quotes

Love is cheering and sharing and compassion and giving and receiving. Love is an action thing more than a word thing, that brings comfort or joy or relief to anyone or anything.

Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way. And compassion helps us as well.

I always felt that it was my job to try to help other people get it and deal with it.

I love helping people.

True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it.

Helping someone is what life is all about.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

You feel alive to the degree that you feel you can help others.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.

The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.

I will take any opportunity to help others.

Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

To give somebody your time is the biggest gift you can give.

Mother Teresa was asked what was the meaning of life, and she said to help other people, and I thought, 'What a strange thing to say' - but maybe it's the right thing to say.

Helping others isn't a chore; it is one of the greatest gifts there is.

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.

Even if you don't have a lot, you can help someone.

To be a Christian is to be obligated to be charitable. This is true whether you are rich or poor, healthy or ill, old or young, male or female, oppressed or free, established or disestablished.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.