Quotes About Kindness

How we treat others is how we treat Jesus.

If you fear you've written too many checks on God's kindness account, drag regrets around like a broken bumper, huff and puff more than you delight and rest, and, most of all, if you wonder whether God can do something with the mess of your life, then grace is what you need.

Happiness happens when you give." Doing good does good for the doer.

Remarkable. He forgave their sin before they even committed it. He offered mercy before they even sought it.

God is there in the kindness of a stranger. In the beauty of the sunset. In the gentle word and the hug just when you need it.

discipline should result in mercy, not misery.

remembered what you said. 'When you give a gift to one of God's children, you give a gift to God.

Our Savior kneels down and gazes upon the darkest acts of our lives. But rather than recoil in horror, he reaches out in kindness and says, "I can clean that if you want." And from the basin of his grace, he scoops a palm full of mercy and washes away our sin.

Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another's feet. I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you" (John 13:14–15).

And who are we? We are the branches. We bear fruit: "love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness" (Gal. 5:22 NASB). We meditate on what is "true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable . . . excellent and worthy of praise" (Phil. 4:8 NLT). Our gentleness is evident to all. We bask in the "peace of God, which transcends all understanding" (Phil. 4:7 NIV).

Grace is a God who stoops.

He, at this very moment, issues invitations by the millions. He whispers through the kindness of a grandparent, shouts through the tempest of a tsunami. Through the funeral he cautions, "Life is fragile." Through a sickness he reminds, "Days are numbered." God may speak through nature or nurture, majesty or mishap. But through all and to all he invites: "Come, enjoy me forever.

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Be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud.

A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.

When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.

When we find someone who is brave, fun, intelligent, and loving, we have to thank the universe.

Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.

At the end of the day people won't remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.

As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.