Quotes about Kindness
We are not wise in ourselves.7 So we must support one another,8 be tolerant of each other,9 help, teach and advise one another. It is in times of trouble that we really discover the true value of our helpers. They do not weaken us, but reveal their true nature.
— Thomas a Kempis
If he shall not lose his reward, who gives a cup of cold water to his thirst neighbor, what will not be the reward for those who, by putting good books into the hands of those neighbors, open to them the fountains of eternal life?"
— Thomas a Kempis
Charity is love; not all love is charity.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
See to whom Jesus is drawing near, three kinds of people: to those who make peace with him, to those who are devoted to God, and to those who are kind to their neighbors.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
The person who truly understands love could love anyone.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
No man ought to despise or in any way injure another man without urgent cause: and, consequently, unless we have evident indications of a person's wickedness, we ought to deem him good, by interpreting for the best whatever is doubtful about him.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
When friends are at your hearthside met, Sweet courtesy has done its most If you have made each guest forget That he himself is not the host.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
— Charles Dickens
Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.
— Joel Osteen
Love never forces itself on another's will. So
— Norman Geisler