O Mary, you give assistance to everyone endeavoring to…

Man will rise, if God by exception lends him a hand; he will rise by abandoning and renouncing his own means, and letting himselfbe…

— Michel de Montaigne

For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind.…

— John Calvin

“Bloom where you’re planted. Don’t make excuses. Don’t go through life thinking, I’ve got a disadvantage. I’ve got too many obstacles. I’m the wrong…

— Joel Osteen

And God says to all of us, you are no chicken; you are an eagle. Fly, eagle, fly. And God wants us to shake…

— Desmond Tutu

We must forget bodily consciousness like a deer which is infatuated by music. We must look up to God, as the young ones of…

— Tukaram

“For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind.…

— John Calvin

“We rise up to God in pride, while God descends to us in humility.”

— Michael S. Horton

When we think of the height of God's infinity we should not despair of His compassion reaching us from such a height; and when…

— Maximus the Confessor

From within my being, life begins. The tears that flow from my eyes are not always seen, but always felt. My heart always beats,…

— Eugene Nathaniel Butler

O sinner, be not discouraged, but have recourse to Mary in all you necessities. Call her to your assistance, for such is the divine…

— Saint Basil

There is no sinner in the world, however much at enmity with God, who cannot recover God's grace by recourse to Mary, and by…

— Bridget of Sweden

The Republicans have chosen to neglect young Americans who need assistance with the costs of higher education.

— John Conyers

Student loans have been helpful to many. But they offer neither incentive nor assistance to those students who, by reason of family or other…

— John F. Kennedy

It has been hard to muster the resources to support fledgling democracies and to intervene on behalf of the most desperate. The AIDS orphans…

— Condoleezza Rice

Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind…

— Ed Smith