Quotes about Kindness

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

The measure of society is how it treats the weakest members.

May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.

If you serve humanity, you serve humanity's God.

I just remember their kindness and goodness to me, and their peacefulness and their utter simplicity. They inspired real reverence, and I think, in a way, they were certainly saints. And they were saints in that most effective and telling way: sanctified by leading ordinary lives in a completely supernatural manner, sanctified by obscurity, by usual skills, by common tasks, by routine, but skills, tasks, routine which received a supernatural form from grace within.

Everything that happens to the poor, the meek, the desolate, the mourners, the despised, happens to Christ.

The humble man begs for a share in what everybody else has received. He too desires to be filled to overflowing with the kindness and mercy of God.

True happiness is found in unselfish love, a love which increases in proportion as it is shared.

Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy

Excerpt from Leaving Things Alone) You train your eye and your vision lusts after colour. You train your ear, and you long for delightful sound. You delight in doing good, and your natural kindness is blown out of shape. You delight in righteousness, and you become righteous beyond all reason.

It takes heroic charity and humility to let others sustain us when we are absolutely incapable of sustaining ourselves.

Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy