Quotes about Kindness
We want nothing from you that you do without grace," Mrs Whatsit said, "or that you do without understanding.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Everything that we do either draws the Kingdom of love closer, or pushes it further off.
— Madeleine L'Engle
I can't do it for love of God, like Tom Tallis, or for heaven's sake, as Mr. Frost said. But because I love people I have to act according to it—to the fact that I love them.
— Madeleine L'Engle
there are powers of love in the universe, and as long as you respond with love, they'll help you.
— Madeleine L'Engle
I'll ask you a riddle. What do you have the more of, the more of it you give away?
— Madeleine L'Engle
The obligations of normal human kindness—chesed, as the Hebrew has it—that we all owe. But there's a kind of vanity in thinking you can nurse the world. There's a kind of vanity in goodness.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do.
— Madeleine L'Engle
What we must look for is God's mercy. God's mercy shown through our own.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Whatever we give, we have to give out of love. That, I believe, is the nature of God.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Love does not judge.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Words are life. They can tear down or build up, so use them wisely.
— Mensah Oteh
Gratitude is only expressed and appreciated in proportion to your understanding of grace.
— Mensah Oteh