Quotes About Kindness

The word grace reminded Paul's readers of God's kindness in offering salvation to undeserving people. Peace reminded the readers of Christ's offer of peace to his disciples as they lived out their faith in an evil world (John 14:27).

It's a gift, that's all. And when you get a gift, you feel good. Doesn't matter if you haven't got a gift ready to give in return. Something as fine as love from someone as nice as you—well, knowing about it means a lot. It can mean everything.

Surprisingly, it is often when wandering through the emotional carnage left by the worst of humankind that we find the best of humanity ad well.

You can't give what you don't have.

Born for Love, about the essential nature of empathy.

Empathy is the ability to put yourself in somebody else's shoes—both in an emotional sense, to feel a bit of what they may feel, but also in a cognitive sense, to see the situation from their perspective. If you approach an interaction from an empathic stance, you're much less likely to have a negative perspective on whatever is going on. And hopefully that will allow you to get to know the person better—even if it's someone you already know.

You Never Needed GOD to simply Do GOOD For Other People

The Bible is clear about hate: Hate is wrong.

If this sounds overly altruistic, I'd like to confess that to me, this kindness first strategy is one of the most selfish plans I've ever hatched. By reaching out to other people every single day, I am strengthening my social network—and, in effect, taking out an insurance policy on my health and longevity.

Your Kindness Will Lead You to Success

One of the best ways to demonstrate God's love is to listen to people.

Real living is living for others.

It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.

Kindness and remembrance. — A person cannot forget someone who is good to them.

compassion is a wonderful virtue but don't waste it on those undeserving.

1.  Do No Harm     2.  Make Things Better     3.  Respect Others     4.  Be Fair     5.  Be Loving

what redeems us as human beings and restores us to our humanity is solicitude for those whom we love.

Jesus does not love any child (young or old) because the child is good. Jesus loves his children because he is good.

His mercy, not our merits, make[s] us his.

Jesus loves us not because we are good but because he is.

Divine blessing flows from God's mercy rather than from our merit.

We've been trained since kindergarten: Be nice, be kind, share, put on a smile. So we're conditioned to squash our natural selfish instincts, and that's the right thing for society.

Life is made up of an innumerable number of small acts, not considered worth doing by those who are guided by selfish considerations. Of the countless millions of kind and generous acts done, but few would have been done had it been necessary to reason out just in what way the bread "cast upon the waters" would return.

It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone.