Quotes About Kindness

It is not kindness to tell patients that need strong medicine that nothing serious is wrong with them.

You'd be surprised how difficult it is to ask alms of a stranger when you've never done it before, what a psychological barrier separates the honest man from the panhandler. ("Dusk To Dawn")

When He tells us to love our enemies He gives, along with the command, the love itself.

Corrie, if people can be taught to hate, they can be taught to love! We must find the way, you and I, no matter how long it takes.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Willem didn't try to change people, just to serve them.

if people can be taught to hate, they can be taught to love!

Betsie,' I whispered, "what can we do for these people? Afterward I mean. Can't we make a home for them and care for them and love them?' 'Corrie, I pray every day that we will be allowed to do this! To show them that love is greater!' And it wasn't until I was gathering twigs later in the morning that I realized that I had been thinking of the feeble-minded, and Betsie of their persecutors.

In this household," Father said, "God's people are always welcome.

These young women. That girl back at the bunkers. Corrie, if people can be taught to hate, they can be taught to love! We must find the way, you and I, no matter how long it takes. .

If I go home today," he said evenly and clearly, "tomorrow I will open my door again to any man in need who knocks.

I remembered Father's words to the Gestapo chief in The Hague: "I will open my door to anyone in need. . . ." No one in the city was in greater need than its feeble-minded.

She supposed that's what grace was—a second chance that isn't deserved.

Nobody deserves forgiveness, Will. That's the point. That's what grace is.

Some things are true, regardless of who you are. Saying something kind and from the heart is never a bad idea, and it's never the wrong thing to do.

You know that unkindness just makes you get old before your time." "That's true," Dad calls from the living room. "Rots your bones and makes you constipated! Look at your Aunt June!

Funny how meaningful those small tender gestures can be: a friend picking burrs off your shirt, the ones you can't get because they're stuck in that unreachable spot on your back.

We reflect God's character the most when we give freely of ourselves with no strings attached, no secret motives, no hidden agenda.

Each time you think something good, speak it. Never rob someone of the blessings of an unspoken treasure.

When dealing with overly critical people, try to see past the arrows to the struggles that launched them.

On the other hand, when you do something for someone else, there's often a greater, deeper satisfaction.

Weird people love well.

When you give, you will be blessed. When you give, it will be given back to you.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.