Quotes about Kindness

I've always been attracted to girls whose hearts are the biggest thing about them. People can be very sweet and kind to others who can do a lot for them. I want to find a girl who will be the same person to those who can't do anything for her in return.

The poorest people are the sweetest people.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

My faith tells me where to go and get started and what kind of sympathy to have for people once you get there.

Special mercy arouses more gratitude than universal mercy.

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.

Every man therefore is bound to do all the good he can to others, especially for the church and commonwealth.

Francis's starting place was human suffering instead of human sinfulness

We have been shown how to fight hate without becoming hate ourselves. We have been given a Companion and a Friend and not just a good idea. We have been given joy in the midst of failure, and not just a way of winning or being right.

As the Dalai Lama says, "My religion is kindness; my only religion is kindness.

in fact, that's largely what it means to be loving. You can hold for them what they cannot yet hold. You can transform for them what they cannot yet transform. You do that by not returning their negativity and fear in kind, as most people will do.

Mercy unearned undeserved, unnecessary. If it isn't all of those it isn't Mercy. If you think people have to earn it, deserve it, or it is necessary to do it, you have lost the mystery of Mercy and forgiveness