Quotes about Care
To care for others requires an ever-increasing acceptance.
— Henri Nouwen
the celebration of the resurrection of the body is also the celebration of the daily care given to the bodies of these handicapped men and women. Washing and feeding, pushing wheelchairs, carrying, kissing, and caressing— these are all ways in which these broken bodies are made ready for the moment of a new life. Not only their wounds but also the care given them will remain visible in the resurrection.
— Henri Nouwen
As Father, the only authority he claims for himself is the authority of compassion.
— Henri Nouwen
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
— Henri Nouwen
This father always relates to his children in perfect love. This father is never absent. He is never disinterested. He is never preoccupied. He is never unable to respond to a need.
— Henry Blackaby
Jesus wants us to trust him to take care of all our yesterdays and tomorrows.
— Mother Angelica
The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.
— Phillips Brooks
In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die.
— Samuel Johnson
The smallest gesture can mean to much to those who may need a little lift in their lives.
— Gordon Hinckley
We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Treat people like family, and they will be loyal and give their all.
— Arianna Huffington
One who cares for another assumes the weight of the other's condition on his own heart and bears it in love.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen