Quotes About Kindness

But this lawyer, he can't even answer Jesus's question by saying the name. He simply replies the one . . . That's your neighbor. That's who you're called to love. That's where the eternal life is found. In showing kindness to the one you hate, the one you despise, the one you wish didn't exist, the one whose name you can't even say.

It's one thing to be in love; it's another to act because of love. Love is a noun—a feeling you have—and it's also a verb, something you do.

Even the slightest tremors of bitterness can block the flow of love.

Exactly. It's about a particular kind of relationship with a particular kind of God, one who is good and kind and generous. One who can be trusted. One who keeps insisting, Trust me, I got this.

If you are filled with pride over how free and intelligent and enlightened you are in comparison to their backward, antiquated ways, your new knowledge has simply made you arrogant. Watch your heart carefully, because if you aren't more compassionate and more kind and more understanding, then you haven't grown at all.

Agape doesn't need a reason.

Give the gift, and surrender the rest.

Giving the gift is reward enough. That's where the life is. That's where the joy is.

I do not know what solace she found in the tiny, stricken face,' Terry said, 'but now I see the face of a humble carpenter who was moved to tell people to be kind to one another – the golden rule of so many wise men – and for his pains was tortured to death by a tyrant at the behest of zealots. Perhaps the message may be to ignore tyrants and tumble zealots.

Charity begins at home.

How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.

The coldest depth of Hell is reserved for people who abandon kittens.

Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein

Forgiveness and thanks go hand in hand.

You don't pay back, you pay forward.

a friend who offers help without asking for explanations is a treasure beyond price.

One damn sure thing!—he wasn't going to let them be rough with that Smith lad. He was a nuisance, granted, but he was a nice lad and rather appealing in a helpless, half-witted way.

from the strictest humanitarian viewpoint, any attempt to stop the processes by which overcrowded cities purge themselves is not a kindness. Plague is a nasty death but a quick one. Starvation also is a nasty death…but a very slow one.

the unkindest thing you can do for a hungry man is to give him food.

People treat me nice, I treat them nice. If they don't, I walk away. I don't worry much.

Contribute less to the general darkness of the world and do not add to the collective shadow that fuels war and strife.

Like many idle and stupid questions, this proved worth thinking about, for I realized with thunderous emphasis how little Gayness or straightness mattered in human terms: what did matter, in the moral dimension, jumped out at me like a chord in Beethoven — everybody at the party manifested love, care, kindness and support to an almost superhuman degree. These people all loved Don and they exemplified the compassion that, when it appears, makes humans noble and admirable creatures.

Kindness remains, to me, the most wonderful miracle in this incomprehensible universe.