Quotes About Kindness

Love one another as I have loved you" (John 15:12). He is saying, "I will bring a number of people around you whom you cannot respect, but you must exhibit My love to them, just as I have exhibited it to you.

Let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together." Hebrews 10:24–25

Whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two." Matthew 5:41     Our Lord's teaching can be summed up in this: the relationship that He demands for us is an impossible one unless He has done a supernatural work in us. Jesus Christ demands that His disciple does not allow even the slightest trace of resentment in his heart when faced with tyranny and injustice.

Jesus' instructions with regard to judging others is very simply put; He says, "Don't." The average Christian is the most piercingly critical individual known. Criticism is one of the ordinary activities of people, but in the spiritual realm nothing is accomplished by it. The effect of criticism is the dividing up of the strengths of the one being criticized.

Our Lord has told us how love to Him is to manifest itself. "Lovest thou Me? . . . Feed My sheep"—identify yourself with My interests in other people, not, identify Me with your interests in other people. 1 Corinthians 13:4–8 gives the character of this love, it is the love of God expressing itself.

Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion.

If you have become bitter and sour, it is because when God gave you a blessing you hoarded it. Yet if you had poured it out to Him, you would have been the sweetest person on earth.

A heartless Christian must be a terrible grief to our Lord.

O Lord, my Lord, I come to Thee this morning with a sense of spiritual failure. Cleanse me by Thy grace and restore me to the heavenly places in Christ Jesus. O that the sweet kindness of Jesus were more and more manifest in me.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

There's a deal of goodness that the world never sees," said Tussler in conclusion, "as there's a deal of viciousness it never guesses.

Nay—when will you do so much as remember that the coward who tortures an animal would murder a human being if he were not afraid of the gallows? When will you see that to teach the hand of a child to stretch out and smother the butterfly, is to teach that hand, when a man's, to steal out and strangle an enemy?

For the most part people are cruel, cruel if only from lack of thought.

Will you take me home with you ?" I ventured to ask, emboldened by his honest kind eyes. "I have no home," ho said mournfully, "otherwise I would. I sleep under bridge-arches, or doorways, or anywhere I can; where I am not hunted away" "But that must be very miserable?" "Yes, it is miserable. But there are tens of thousands of human creatures that do*the same. I must not complain.

So, on the whole, it was well with them, very well; and Patrasche, meeting on the highway or in the public streets the many dogs who toiled from daybreak into nightfall, paid only with blows and curses, and loosened from the shafts with a kick to starve and freeze as best they might — Patrasche in his heart was very grateful to his fate, and thought it the fairest and the kindliest the world could hold.

We are ever mindful of succor bestowed, of hospitality received; where we have eaten bread there do we ever go with remembrance and thanksgiving; wo have not learned your art of oblivion, your science of neglect; we cannot turn upon the hand that once tendered us food; we cannot make a mockery of the kindliness that onco befriended us; we cannot emulate you there—we are but dogs.

Nothing is more attractive than being like Jesus

Thanks are justly due for boons unbought.

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

If you would be loved, be lovable

To give another person the benefit of the doubt was about as difficult an everyday task as anyone faced.

Only monsters would harm a cat.

Killing a pig for a good old fry-up is one thing. But there's no excuse for being cruel, even if you're a bored teenage kid.