Quotes about Kindness

The more you treat someone you hate as if you loved them, the more you will find yourself loving them.

Charity transcends mere virtue. Yet once this charity exists, it fulfills all virtue, as the New Law fulfills the Old and as grace fulfills nature. Charity is the heart and soul of all virtue.

Love is strengthened and perfected by suffering. Couples who have had only ease lack depth. True love needs to suffer. "The course of true love never did run smooth." Kindness—mere kindness—cannot tolerate suffering. Love can.

Furthermore, the most popular modern answer to the question of what it means to be a good person is to be kind. Do not make other people suffer. If it doesn't hurt anyone, it's O.K. By this standard, God is not good it he lets us suffer. But by ancient standards, God might be good even though he lets us suffer, if he does it for the sake of the greater end of happiness, perfection of life and character and soul, that is, self.

Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me.

is part of the infinite goodness of God, that He

Love works; and if we do not see the works of love (in places where they obviously ought to be) then we can be sure that love is not present.

The Bible says when others treat you badly, you're supposed to love them, pray for them, bless them, and do good things for them. If you can't do it because you want to, then you must do it because you're obedient.

You gave me life and showed me kindness, and in your providence watched over my Spirit. JOB 10:12 NIV

Love without distinction. Love without calculation. Love without procrastination. Just love.

Return to the LORD your God, for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness; and He relents from doing harm" (Joel 2:13).

When insult comes our way, we look for a way to respond in love (Matthew 5:38-39).