Quotes about Care
I don't care about my character here on earth. I don't care about what other people think or say about me, all I care about is my standing before the Lord.
— Brigham Young
Is quick relief worth it? No, it isn't. I'd rather take the pain myself so they won't have to.
— Terri Blackstock
This is discussed at greater length in chapter 6, "Seeks Discipline." A committed member is committed to speaking the truth in love to his brothers and sisters, to helping them avoid pitfalls, and to encouraging them in holiness and Christian joy. A committed member will not be wrongly intrusive in the lives of others—a busybody—but he also will not be "hands off" when it comes to caring for and counseling others.
— Thabiti M. Anyabwile
I then held, and now hold, the belief that a man's first duty is to pull his own weight and to take care of those dependent upon him; and I then believed, and now believe, that the greatest privilege and greatest duty for any man is to be happily married, and that no other form of success or service, for either man or woman, can be wisely accepted as a substitute or alternative.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Remember always thine end, and how the time which is lost returneth not. Without care and diligence thou shalt never get virtue. If thou beginnest to grow cold, it shall begin to go ill with thee, but if thou givest thyself unto zeal thou shalt find much peace, and shalt find thy labour the lighter because of the grace of God and the love of virtue.
— Thomas a Kempis
Greater is Your care for me than all the care I am able to take from myself.
— Thomas a Kempis
The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
While injustice is the worst of sins, despair is the most dangerous; because when you are in despair you care neither about yourself nor about others.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Shepherds of the flock should . . . seek the good of their flock, and every ruler the good of the people subject to him.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
When Trump says America first, it doesn't mean cheering for America only. It means if you want to care for your neighbors, you have to make sure that you are yourself, first, healthy.
— Eric Metaxas
people say, "I didn't ask to be born," I think we did, and that's why we're here. We are here, and we have to do something nurturing that we respect before we go. We must. It is more interesting, more complicated, more intellectually demanding and more morally demanding to love somebody, to take care of somebody, to make one other person feel good.
— Nikki Giovanni
Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.
— Nikki Giovanni