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Quotes About Kindness

We want nothing from you that you do without grace," Mrs Whatsit said, "or that you do without understanding.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Everything that we do either draws the Kingdom of love closer, or pushes it further off.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
I can't do it for love of God, like Tom Tallis, or for heaven's sake, as Mr. Frost said. But because I love people I have to act according to it—to the fact that I love them.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
If someone knows who he is, really knows, then he doesn't need to hate. That's why we still need Namers
~ Madeleine L'Engle
there are powers of love in the universe, and as long as you respond with love, they'll help you.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
I'll ask you a riddle. What do you have the more of, the more of it you give away?
~ Madeleine L'Engle
We do not draw people to Christ by loudly discrediting what they believe, by telling them how wrong they are and how right we are, but by showing them a light that is so lovely that they want with all their hearts to know the source of it.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
The obligations of normal human kindness—chesed, as the Hebrew has it—that we all owe. But there's a kind of vanity in thinking you can nurse the world. There's a kind of vanity in goodness.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
What we must look for is God's mercy. God's mercy shown through our own.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Whatever we give, we have to give out of love. That, I believe, is the nature of God.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Love does not judge.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Idiot, Proginoskes said, anxiously rather than crossly. Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do. I've never had a feeling in my life
~ Madeline L'Engle
Jesus was more forgiving to those who made mistakes in love than to those who judged each other harshly and were cold of heart.
~ Madeline L'Engle
Was Louis mean? He had always seemed the very spirit of generosity. When he had hardly sixpence left he would spend the coins he had on a bunch of violets. She couldn't bear to think of Louis as mean. Anything else but that.
~ Maeve Binchy
Everyone I know is looking for solace, hope and a tasty snack.
~ Maira Kalman
Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.
~ Malcolm Cowley
I define a moral action as one that brings advantage to my friends.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Owe no one anything except to love one another;
~ Malcolm Gladwell
It was not the privileged and the fortunate who took in the Jews in France. It was the marginal and the damaged, which should remind us that there are real limits to what evil and misfortune can accomplish.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
To assume the best about another is the trait that has created modern society.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Then this beggar with one leg leaned forward: he dropped a coin into the legless man's outstretched hand. There were tears in the first beggar's eyes.
~ Malcolm Lowry
Don't condemn if you see a person has a dirty glass of water, just show them the clean glass of water that you have. When they inspect it, you won't have to say that yours is better. -said by Elijah Muhammad to Malcolm X
~ Malcolm X
Success in your life is not a single achievement. It's all that you do with others and for others
~ Phil Harding