Quotes about Kindness

Please let us make a small room upstairs and put in it a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp for him. Then when he comes to us, he can stay there.”

and Elisha said to Gehazi, “Now tell her, ‘Look, you have gone to all this trouble for us. What can we do for you? Can we speak on your behalf to the king or the commander of the army?’” “I have a home among my own people,” she replied.

So he asked, “Then what should be done for her?” “Well, she has no son,” Gehazi replied, “and her husband is old.”

“Do not kill them,” he replied. “Would you kill those you have captured with your own sword or bow? Set food and water before them, that they may eat and drink and then return to their master.”

And he spoke kindly to Jehoiachin and set his throne above the thrones of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.

And David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent messengers to console Hanun concerning his father. But when David’s servants arrived in the land of the Ammonites to console him,

They replied, “If you will be kind to these people and please them by speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants forever.”

Remember me favorably, O my God, for all that I have done for this people.

A despairing man should have the kindness of his friend, even if he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

But I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would bring relief.

You gave no water to the weary and withheld food from the famished,

When men are brought low and you say, ‘Lift them up!’ then He will save the lowly.