It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.

the LORD was with him and extended kindness to him, granting him favor in the eyes of the prison warden.

And although my illness was a trial to you, you did not despise or reject me. Instead, you welcomed me as if I were an angel of God, as if I were Christ Jesus Himself.

Betsie,' I whispered, "what can we do for these people? Afterward I mean. Can't we make a home for them and care for them and love them?' 'Corrie, I pray every day that we will be allowed to do this! To show them that love is greater!' And it wasn't until I was gathering twigs later in the morning that I realized that I had been thinking of the feeble-minded, and Betsie of their persecutors.

a suffering person needs: love, and not knowledge and wisdom.

Give first, no matter what your circumstances may be.

Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.

True charity never envies others when they prosper, nor rejoices in the calamities of others when they are in trouble.

And what more sublime delight than to... share our bread with one to whom misfortune has left none!

It is apparent that the mere knowledge that a man was either a camp guard or a prisoner tells us almost nothing. Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.

God tempers the wind, said Maria, to the shorn lamb.

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.