Quotes About Kindness

They replied, “If you will be a servant to these people and serve them this day, and if you will respond by speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants forever.”

One day Elisha went to Shunem, and a prominent woman who lived there persuaded him to have a meal. So whenever he would pass by, he would stop there to eat.

Please let us make a small room upstairs and put in it a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp for him. Then when he comes to us, he can stay there.”

and Elisha said to Gehazi, “Now tell her, ëLook, you have gone to all this trouble for us. What can we do for you? Can we speak on your behalf to the king or the commander of the army?í” “I have a home among my own people,” she replied.

“Do not kill them,” he replied. “Would you kill those you have captured with your own sword or bow? Set food and water before them, that they may eat and drink and then return to their master.”

And he spoke kindly to Jehoiachin and set his throne above the thrones of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.

And David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent messengers to console Hanun concerning his father. But when Davidís servants arrived in the land of the Ammonites to console him,

They replied, “If you will be kind to these people and please them by speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants forever.”

Thus King Joash failed to remember the kindness that Zechariahís father Jehoiada had extended to him. Instead, Joash killed Jehoiadaís son. As he lay dying, Zechariah said, “May the LORD see this and call you to account.”

Then the men who were designated by name arose, took charge of the captives, and provided from the plunder clothing for the naked. They clothed them, gave them sandals and food and drink, anointed their wounds, and put all the feeble on donkeys. So they brought them to Jericho, the City of Palms, to their brothers. Then they returned to Samaria.

But in Your great compassion, You did not put an end to them; nor did You forsake them, for You are a gracious and compassionate God.

And Mordecai had brought up Hadassah (that is, Esther), the daughter of his uncle, because she did not have a father or mother. The young woman was lovely in form and appearance, and when her father and mother had died, Mordecai had taken her in as his own daughter.

A despairing man should have the kindness of his friend, even if he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

But I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would bring relief.

You gave no water to the weary and withheld food from the famished,

When men are brought low and you say, ëLift them up!í then He will save the lowly.

They prey on the barren and childless, and show no kindness to the widow.

“How you have helped the powerless and saved the arm that is feeble!

The dying man blessed me, and I made the widowís heart sing for joy.

I served as eyes to the blind and as feet to the lame.

I was a father to the needy, and I took up the case of the stranger.

If I have denied the desires of the poor or allowed the widowís eyes to fail,

if I have eaten my morsel alone, not sharing it with the fatherless—

if I have seen one perish for lack of clothing, or a needy man without a cloak,