Lily Aldridge Quotes

For me, it's always easy and great to be connected to St. Jude.

I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn't feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It's a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful.

The most important thing in the world is children. St. Jude is literally saving people's lives. It's incredible.

I remember the first time going to St. Jude. I didn't like going there because the children were ill, and it just broke my heart. It makes you test your religion when you see something like that. But the Lord doesn't want just old people. You know, He wants some young people, too, and good people. He takes care of them. He takes care of them.

Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.

'E.T.' was a healing movie; it was a heart movie. It was all about getting about getting home and love.

How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.

When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.'

Connecting with the kids is a great joy for me. I love meeting them backstage or at a signing event. I am overwhelmed when I meet kids who struggle with terminal illnesses.

There's something universal about illness... Whether you like it, at some level all patients are saying, 'Daddy, Mommy, help me, tell me it's going to be alright.'

My heart was broken when I realized my daughter had a problem. I pray every day for her.

I'm just looking for an angel with a broken wing.

In high school, I had two friends that were suffering from cancer. I would go and sing for them while they were in hospital, and I sang at their services after they passed.

Love is cheering and sharing and compassion and giving and receiving. Love is an action thing more than a word thing, that brings comfort or joy or relief to anyone or anything.

Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again.

God knows what we are going through when we grieve, and He wants to assure us of His love and concern. He also wants us to turn to Him and bring our heartaches and burdens to Him.

When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.

They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

I wrote my children's book because I believe there are children that are hurting and may need to know that there is love out there for them- God's love.

I plays Joe's best friend. I am the only one he has ever been able to trust in his life, so I help him understand what happened to him when he was younger.

However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there being so many things which balance the sorrow of it.

Compassion isn't morose; it's something replenishing and opening; that's why it makes us happy.

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

We want to be a place where, and when there's no place else, you can turn us on and know that He's there, He cares, and He's going to do something about it.

My mother told me, 'Son, nobody else but God knows.' And that's what I'm about - reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That's what I do.