Quotes About Kindness

No matter what the problem, the solution is love.

It is the only power that can override hate.

the miraculous application of love as a balm on every wound.

Miracles occur in response to every problem, yet it is my faith and compassion that bring them forth.

Love as much as you can from wherever you are.

Love isn't material. It's energy. It's the feeling in a room, a situation, a person...It has nothing to do with the physical world, but it can be expressed nonetheless. We experience it as kindness, giving, mercy, compassion, peace, joy, acceptance, non-judgment, joining and intimacy.

his [Mark Scrutton's] was the intelligent and selfless tenderness that is ever seeking to promote the comfort and well-being of the beloved.

Very few of us lack superficial faults and we must rely on each other's kindness to overlook them.

Why would you want to go look for that wicked girl?" she asked. "Because I never thanked her," Lillian said, but she was really hoping for forgiveness.

Good conversation is a courtesy, a kindness, a form of caritas that has as its deepest implicit intention binding one another together in understanding and love.

It is one of the best traits of good people that they love where they pity. And this is truer of women than of men.

That reservoir of goodness beyond and of another kind that we are able to do for each other in the ordinary cause of things.

He looked up at her. Kindness was something he didn't even know he wanted, and here it was.

Kindly intentioned, but not considerate.

My reputation is largely the creature of the kindly imaginings of my flock, whom I chose not to disillusion, in part because the truth had the kind of pathos in it that would bring on sympathy in its least bearable forms.

So many of earth's grievances could be soothed by a little consideration.

When you're scalded, touch hurts, it makes no difference if it's kindly meant. Now

It is one of the best traits of good people that they love where they pity. And this is truer of women than of men. So they get themselves drawn into situations that are harmful to them. I have seen this happen many, many times. I have always had trouble finding a way to caution against it. Since it is, in a word, Christlike

Her father told his children to pray for patience, for courage, for kindness, for clarity, for trust, for gratitude. Those prayers will be answered

You are not good for your own sake. That probably isn't even possible. You are good as a courtesy to everyone around you. Keeping a promise or breaking it, telling the truth or lying, matters to those around you. So there is good you can do and always do again. You do not have to believe you are good in order to act well in any specific case. You never lose that option.

It is one of the best traits of good people that they love where they pity.

When Jesus describes Judgment, the famous separation of the sheep from the goats, he does not mention religious affiliation or sexual orientation or family values. He says, I was hungry, and ye fed me not (Matthew 25:42).

She had repaid his kindness with kindness. As she would not have done if she had known who he was. What he was. When defects of character are your character, you become a what. He had noticed this. No one ever says, A liar is who you are, or Who you are is a thief. He was a what, absolutely.

In destitution, even of feeling or purpose, a human being is more hauntingly human and vulnerable to kindnesses because there is the sense that things should be otherwise, and then the thought of what is wanting and what alleviation would be, and how the soul could be put at ease, restored. At home. But the soul finds its own home if it ever has a home at all.