Quotes about Kindness

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.

And miserable it is to be to others cause of misery...

To accept people is to be for them. It is to recognize that it is a very good thing that these people are alive, and to long for the best for them. It does not, of course, mean to approve of everything they do. It means to continue to want what is best for their souls no matter what they do.

Etty spent her last days giving hope and care, "with a kind word for everyone she met on the way." Her final words were written on a postcard and thrown off Wagon No. 12, the railroad car she rode to what she knew would be her death in Auschwitz. "We left camp singing," she wrote. The Nazis took control of her possessions, her mobility, her work, her family, her body, and finally her life, yet she believed that they did not truly take anything at all.

The kind of assignments God gives in the Bible are always God-sized. They are always beyond what people can do, because he wants to demonstrate his nature, his strength, his provision, and his kindness to his people and to a watching world. This is the only way the world will come to know him.

I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you - when life opens that door for you, I should say - I think it's important to be giving, to return the love back.

He who hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none.

Love means to love that which is unlovable or it is no virtue at all.

It's never too late. We've come around to a better way of life with showing love and giving love. That's what matters.

I believed that was the point of real forgiveness: It was freely given. Grace-filled. Unsolicited.