Quotes about Kindness
Imagine for a moment the result if everyone were to love one another as Jesus loves his disciples. We would have no bickering, quarreling, strife, or contention in our homes. We would not offend or insult one another either verbally or in any other way. We would not have unnecessary litigation over small matters.
— Joseph Wirthlin
The same love and graciousness as though I were a queen already and not wretched little Much-Afraid." Then she looked up into his face and for a little time could say no more, but at last she added, "My Lord, I cannot tell you how greatly I want to regard others in the same way.
— Hannah Hurnard
It is not because things are good that we are to thank the Lord, but because He is good.
— Hannah Whitall Smith
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
— Charles Dickens
I don't think we need to agree with anyone in order to love the person. The command for Christians to love the other person, to be benevolent and beneficent toward them, is independent of what the other believes.
— Miroslav Volf
From last night's All Together Now, a Celebration of Service: There can be no definition of a successful life that does not include service to others.
— George H. W. Bush
People with handicaps teach me that being is more important than doing, the heart is more important than the mind, and caring together is better than caring alone.
— Henri Nouwen
He who plants kindness gathers love.
— St. Basil
May my life be like a great hospitable tree, and may weary wanderers find in me a rest.
— John Henry Jowett
He who sows courtesy reaps friendship.
— St. Basil
Trees generously share their fruit.Bees generously share their honey.Flowers generously share their perfume. Do likewise.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
God is too good to be unkind, too wise to be mistaken; and when you cannot trace His hand, you can trust His heart.
— Charles Spurgeon