“God gave us crying so other folks could see when we needed help, and help us.”

“If we acknowledge our need for God, he will help us.”

“If we fail to look after others when they need help, who will look after us?”

“We need days of failure because they help humble us, and through them we can see how God's grace is poured out on the humble.”

“But the same badness which makes us need it, makes us unable to do it [repent]. Can we do it if God helps us? Yes.”

“We tried so hard. We were always trying to help each other. But not because we were helpless. He needed to get things for me, just as I needed to get things for him. It gave us purpose. Sometimes I would ask him for something that I did not even want, just to let him get it for me. We spent our days trying to help each other help each other. I would get his slippers. He would make my tea. I would turn up the heat so he could turn up the air conditioner so I could turn up the heat.”