Quotes About Kindness

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

Love until it hurts. Real love is always painful and hurts; then it is real and pure.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand.

It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you . . . yes, it is Christmas every time you smile at your brother and offer him your hand." Philemon

I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is the one person in the world at that moment.

There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness; and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much.

Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.

Peace begins with a smile. Only God knows our true needs.

We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.

One must really have suffered oneself to help others.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love.

I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, "How many good things have you done in your life?" Rather he will ask, "How much love did you put into what you did?"

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by "I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.

Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

If you judge people you have no time to love them.

Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you.

If you can't feed a hundred people, feed just one.