Quotes about Kindness

When you remember mercy, you are humble, thankful, and tender.

And as you begin to remember that God's mercy is your only hope and you meditate on the grandeur of the mercy that has been showered on you, you begin to want to help others experience that same mercy. You see, to the degree that you forget the mercy you've been given, it is easier for you to not give mercy to others. I daily need God's work of mercy in order to do his work of mercy.

When you forget mercy and think you're deserving, you find it all too easy not to extend mercy to others.

You deal with others with grace when you walk around with the humble realization of how deep your need for grace was and continues to be.

If you fail to carry around with you a heart of gratitude for the love you've been so freely given, it is easy for you not to love others as you should.

For the believer, harsh, critical, impatient, and irritated responses to others are always connected to forgetting or denying who we are and what we have been given in Jesus.

Humility is the soil in which mercy for others grows.

You are most loving, patient, kind, and gracious when you are aware that there is no truth that you could give to another that you don't desperately need yourself.

Love that cares, listens.

There is no love which does not become help.

The gratitude of those who receive help is first and always gratitude for love and only afterwards gratitude for help.

The wise are wise only because they love.