Quotes about Kindness

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

My faith tells me where to go and get started and what kind of sympathy to have for people once you get there.

Special mercy arouses more gratitude than universal mercy.

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.

Every man therefore is bound to do all the good he can to others, especially for the church and commonwealth.

Francis's starting place was human suffering instead of human sinfulness

We have been shown how to fight hate without becoming hate ourselves. We have been given a Companion and a Friend and not just a good idea. We have been given joy in the midst of failure, and not just a way of winning or being right.

As the Dalai Lama says, "My religion is kindness; my only religion is kindness.

in fact, that's largely what it means to be loving. You can hold for them what they cannot yet hold. You can transform for them what they cannot yet transform. You do that by not returning their negativity and fear in kind, as most people will do.

Mercy unearned undeserved, unnecessary. If it isn't all of those it isn't Mercy. If you think people have to earn it, deserve it, or it is necessary to do it, you have lost the mystery of Mercy and forgiveness

The great commandment is not thou shalt be right. The great commandment is to be in love.

Physicians, though they put their patients to much pain, will not destroy their nature, but will raise it up by degrees. Surgeons will pierce and cut but not mutilate. A mother who has a sick and self-willed child will not cast it away for this reason. And shall there be more mercy in the stream than there is in the spring? Shall we think there is more mercy in ourselves than in God, who plants the feeling of mercy in us?