Quotes About Kindness

When the two terms and their definitions are combined into one term, translated philoxenia, we see that hospitality literally means "showing brotherly love to strangers.

When giving money to the amputated, you must put it directly into their pockets.

Into a world splattered with hate, the body of Christ must now move-dripping with grace and veined with love.

Our words-backed with action-have the power to heal.

Spend your good words extravagantly. Sprinkle them generously into conversations.

Start with humility. It's an ingredient in all loving communities.

You can't build happiness on someone else's pain.

So reach out and receive the gift.

Do one good deed everyday and the world will be a better place

By the time he had to head to San Francisco, for his night shift at the UCSF Medical Center emergency room, Mortenson had completed, sealed, and stamped six letters. One for Oprah Winfrey. One for each network news anchor, including CNN's Bernard Shaw, since he figured CNN was becoming as big as the other guys. And a letter he'd written spontaneously to the actress Susan Sarandon, since she seemed so nice, and so dedicated to causes

Heading the list is the definitive quality that shines through Jesus and is to mark his followers. Jesus said, "By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another" (John 13:35). To love your enemies and forgive those who intend your destruction is a love that comes from above.

I love animals. I couldn't eat a whole one but I'll split one with you if you want.

May we all live up to his example; may we all try to be the one who hears a new

One thing he'd learned time and again was that you never could tell what kind of private hell people were fighting through.

I usually find," Evan said, "that people will show you how they want to be treated if you pay attention.

For whatever the era, nationality, gender and genre; whether realistic, traditional, fabulist, historical, fantasist, minimalist, crossover, the writer worthy of the literary arts and a host of readers always offers the riches of stories, that we may be less deprived and disconsolate, and more human and humane; perhaps wiser, and kinder to ourselves and our brothers and other strangers.

Kindness is the only strength there is.

Just assume the answer to every question is compassion.

Love is a one-way street. Love, like respect isn't something you get; it's something you give

But if all things equally fall short of this dignity, one thing there is that is not beneath the dignity of God, and that is, to do good to him that needed it.

Nothing,' wrote Tolstoy, 'can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.

Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.

We don't need to be perfect to do good deeds in the world, but we need to be sincere in our efforts.

Love is the most complex of all human phenomena. It exists on a spectrum from tolerance and kindness to romantic love and self-sacrifice, reaching its pinnacle in altruism, a love that needs nothing in return.