Quotes about Kindness
Genuine kindness is not what we do, it is what we are.
— Vernon Howard
Kindness is better and can be more powerful than force. Kind words may unlock an iron door.
— Nicky Gumbel
He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it.
— Cicero
Infantile people complain and say that God is cruel or that there is no God. Mature people, however, know that there is wisdom and sometimes an eternal kindness in God's refusals.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Surely there is no road of effort so steep but a loving deed may soften its hardshness.
— Helen Keller
I choose kindness... I will be kind to the poor, for they are alone. Kind to the rich, for they are afraid. And kind to the unkind, for such is how God has treated me
— Max Lucado
Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
— Viktor E. Frankl
Without loving-kindness for ourselves, it is difficult, if not impossible, to genuinely feel it for others.
— Pema Chodron
Kindness is willing to look in the face of the hurting.
— Beth Moore
Grace doesn't lead us into destructive behavior. Sin does. And grace is the only remedy for sin. The kindness of God leads to repentance.
— Tullian Tchividjian
When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.
— Publilius Syrus
There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness.
— Cicero