Quotes about Kindness

Real love is to expand our own capacity for tolerance and caring, to actively seek another's well-being. All else is simply a charade of self-interest. Zeke

It's been my experience that those with the toughest shells have the softest hearts

People always say that no matter how awful things are, there's always someone suffering more. It's true. It's not really helpful, but it's true.

The well from which we receive grace is only filled by sharing it with others.

You can tell a lot about a man by watching how he treats those he doesn't have to be nice to.

Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.

God has decreed it so, that where tenderness of heart is, there mercy shall follow...

It cannot but cheer the heart of the spouse, to consider, in all her infirmities and miseries she is subject to, that she hath a husband of a kind disposition, that knows how to give the honour of mild usage to the weaker vessel, that will be so far from rejecting her, because she is weak, that he will pity her the more. And as he is kind at all times, so especially when it is most seasonable; he will speak to her heart, 'especially in the wilderness,' Hos. ii. 24.

Christ came down from heaven, and emptied himself of majesty in tender love to souls; shall we not come down from our high conceits to do any poor soul good? Shall man be proud after God hath been humble?

Some think it strength of grace to endure nothing in the weaker, whereas the strongest are readiest to bear with the infirmities of the weak.

Christ came down from heaven and emptied himself of majesty in tender love to souls. Shall we not come down from our high conceits to do any poor soul good? Shall man be proud after God has been humble?

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.