Quotes About Kindness

love thy neighbour' is less a pious injunction than a rule for survival. If you meet one in trouble, you stop — another time he may stop for you.

That's what friends should do. cherish the good and pretend not to notice the harmless rest.

Maybe that's what love does - smooths the hard edges of life, giving us a gentle place to land when we fall.

You want to know how to love me? Love my children. You want to be good to me? Be good to my children.

Your wealth of experience makes you rich. Spend it on hurt people. They need it so badly.

Meanness at church sometimes exceeds anything that occurs in secular surroundings.

To extend hands of service without hearts of love is virtually meaningless.

Oh, the positive power of an instructed tongue! How many weary people do we encounter day after day who could use a sustaining word?

Be compassionate and humble, not paying back evil for evil or insult for insult but, on the contrary, giving a blessing. 1 Peter 3:8–9

Father, You are calling upon me to be completely humble and gentle; to be patient, bearing with others in love. (Eph. 4:2) Please empower me with Your Spirit to be obedient to this command.

He will not forget your work and the love you showed for His name when you served the saints—and you continue to serve them. Hebrews 6:10

For You, Lord, are kind and ready to forgive, abundant in faithful love to all who call on You. Psalm 86:5

The Lord God has given Me the tongue of those who are instructed to know how to sustain the weary with a word. Isaiah 50:4

Thank You, Lord, for giving me the right kind of companions.

If you offer yourself to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted one, then your light will shine in the darkness. Isaiah 58:10

Make it easy for those in need. Make their provision plain to see.

I led them with cords of human kindness, with ties of love. Hosea 11:4 (NIV)

May our memories of kindness be long and of offenses be short.

Lend, expecting nothing in return. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High. Luke 6:35

Faith working through love.

A friend is someone who can brighten your day with a simple smile, when others try to do it with a thousand words.

Build your reputation by helping other people build theirs.

If someone wants a picture, I'm so honored and so flattered, and I hope I have a reputation as someone who goes out of his way to do those kinds of things.

It's a very lovely reputation to have - being a kind person. I try to live up to the fact that people think that about me.