Quotes About Kindness

What seems like sacrifice becomes instead a kind of nourishment because dispensing grace enriches the giver as well as the receiver.

simple availability is the most powerful force we can contribute to help calm the fears of others. Instinctively, I shrink back from people who are in pain.

As Dorothy Day put it, "I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.

Grace, however, is not about fairness.

Think too of all who suffer as if you shared their pain. HEBREWS 13:3

God's gifts are best used when we give them away in serving those who have less.

There is a simple cure for people who doubt God's love and question God's grace: to turn to the Bible and examine the kind of people God loves.

Breaking the cycle of ungrace means taking the initiative.

When I ask, "Tell me the first word that comes to your mind when I say Christian," not one time has someone suggested the word love. Yet without question that is the proper biblical answer.

Jesus was able to love men because he loved them right through the layer of mud.

Nothing else — no learned "how-to" program, no expensive gift — is worth more to the sufferer than the comfortable assurance of your physical presence.

the issue is not whether I agree with someone but rather how I treat someone with whom I profoundly disagree.

What greater gift could Christians give to the world than the forming of a culture that upholds grace and forgiveness?

We Christians are called to use the "weapons of grace," which means treating even our opponents with love and respect.

why God asks us to forgive: because that is what God is like.

For Jesus, the person was more important than any category or label.

Breaking the cycle of ungrace means taking the initiative. Instead of waiting for his neighbor to make the first move

Our need to give is every bit as desperate as the poor's need to receive.

As Christ's body on earth we are compelled to move, as he did, toward those who hurt. That has been God's consistent movement in all history.

Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep," advised the apostle Paul (Romans 12:15), wise words that apply especially in times of crisis.

a suffering person needs: love, and not knowledge and wisdom.

Kindness and pain, joy and suffering are twins in this fallen world.

I will learn to smile at my enemies.

It is not love that matters, Mistress Boy, it is what you choose to do with it. What'd you choose to do with yours?