Quotes About Kindness

We try to be formed and held and kept by him, but instead he offers us freedom. And now when I try to know his will, his kindness floods me, his great love overwhelms me, and I hear him whisper, Surprise me.

The longer you wait and put off the nice things you should do on a regular basis, the harder it is to do them, until finally you have to force yourself to be nice, to be thoughtful, and it isn't easy, because you're embarrassed about not having done those easy, nice things in a natural kind of way. Also, the people who you're nice to come to expect your regular niceness. That's it in a nutshell.

Promise from God | GALATIANS 5:22-23 | The Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.

PROVERBS 15:1 | A gentle answer deflects anger, but harsh words make tempers flare.

With malice toward none; with charity for all.

Ronald J. Sider

Care for the hurting and oppressed.

You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing for them or to them,

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.

Do good unto others..Cherish your loved ones while they are still there.. Guilt and repentance are the worst forms of penance ..

Do whatever comes your way as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people and other things that are interesting. Put a good deal of thought into happiness that you are able to give.

Now that you're a Skinny Bitch, don't turn into a skinny bitch. We conceived of the title, Skinny Bitch, to get attention and sell books.... But we are not bitches, and we have no desire to promote bitchiness. There is nothing uglier than a pretty woman who's nasty. If you look great, you should feel good about yourself and be happy.

By the way, everything would be much easier to live through if only I would not forget the basic rule I've made for my life: To be kind and good is the main thing! Plainly and simply, to be good—that resolves and unites everything and is better than all cleverness and insistence on "being right.

Religion should be kindness. Faith is love.

Be very, very nice to your school's computer specialist. He, along with the custodians, is often the most underappreciated person in the building.

I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big successes. I am for those tiny, invisible loving human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which, if given time, will rend the hardest monuments of human pride. —WILLIAM JAMES

That old buffalo woman gave Nanapush her views. She told him that he had survived by doing the opposite of all the others. Where they abandoned, he saved. Where they were cruel, he was kind. Where they betrayed, he was faithful. Nanapush then decided that in all things he would be unpredictable. As he had completely lost trust in authority, he decided to stay away from others and to think for himself, even to do the most ridiculous things that occurred to him.

Father Damien maintained a neutral, kind, meditative watchfulness that had in it no hint of impatience.

We are never so poor that we cannot bless another human, are we? So it is that every evil, whether moral or material, results

Look,' I said, 'I'm gonna help you out. When a person who works retail is off duty, we don't do nothing for nobody—unless that person asks nice.' 'Wow. You could never be a high school teacher.

People avenge themselves for the favors done them.

Si les gens sont si méchants, c'est peut-être seulement parce qu'ils souffrent, mais le temps est long qui sépare le moment où ils ont cessé de souffrir de celui où ils deviennent un peu meilleurs.