Allison Bailey

“But if you are a poor creature--poisoned by a wretched up-bringing in some house full of vulgar jealousies and senseless quarrels--saddled, by no choice of your own, with some loathsome sexual perversion--nagged day in and day out by an inferiority complex that makes you snap at your best friends--do not despair. He knows all about it. You are one of the poor whom He blessed. He knows what a wretched machine you are trying to drive. Keep on. Do what you can. One day He will fling it on the scrap-heap and give you a new one. And then you may astonish us all - not least yourself: for you have learned your driving in a hard school.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“This again highlights the issue of sustainability for churches starting a counseling ministry. You must think of the care and longevity of the helpers you train”
― Brad Hambrick, Mobilizing Church-Based Counseling: Models for Sustainable Church-Based Care

“But the emotional boundaries and separation implied in sympathy and compassion can serve another purpose. They allow the comforter to maintain the kind of stability and sober-mindedness necessary to actually help the sufferer.”
― Joe Rigney, The Sin of Empathy: Compassion and Its Counterfeits

“Character concerns reveal what we value most.”
― Brad Hambrick, Mobilizing Church-Based Counseling: Models for Sustainable Church-Based Care