KINDNESS QUOTES IV

quotations about kindness

There is a God and He is good, and his love, while free, has a self imposed cost: We must be good to one another.

GEORGE H.W. BUSH

RNC acceptance speech, August 18, 1988


No person is wholly bad who is kind to any living thing.

LEWIS F. KORNS

Thoughts


Kindness is God's redemptive Spirit at work.

SHELDON B. STEPHENSON

Meditations on the Holy Spirit of God


My true religion is kindness.

TENZIN GYATSO

Kindness


Kindness is the velvet of social intercourse.

JAMES L. GORDON

The Homiletic Review, Jun. 1917


Kindness requires maturity, imagination, determination, and certainly a big heart. It extends to the entire universe. It is a way of being at home in the universe, with the seen and the unseen, with life and death, in God's creation and in God's presence and energy, which is pure love.

JEAN MAALOUF

The Healing Power of Kindness


A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

WASHINGTON IRVING

The School Journal, Jan. 1909


Kindness is the color in the cathedral window which woven into beautiful characters shuts out the hideous sights of a world which is all too practical.

JAMES L. GORDON

The Homiletic Review, Jun. 1917


Kindness is the visible expression of a feeling and merciful heart; it is the going forth of a tender and susceptible mind; it claims kindred with the human race; it is all ear to listen--all heart to feel--all eye to examine and to weep--all hand and foot to relieve; it invites the sufferer with kind words, and sends him not empty away.

JOHN ANGELL JAMES

The Friend, Nov. 27, 1830


Kindness is helpful to the happiness of both recipient and giver. Who does not feel happier on showing kindness to others, and who does not feel happier on receiving the manifestation of kindness? Deeds of kindness shown in the little things of life constitute man's chief happiness. Many are not able to do any great things for others, but all can find abundant opportunity of showing little deeds of kindness which will add much to the happiness of mankind.

NICIAS BALLARD COOKSEY

Helps to Happiness


When you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness.

GLEN DUNCAN

The Last Werewolf


They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness.

GRAHAM GREENE

The Captain and the Enemy


Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from.

HONORE DE BALZAC

Le Siècle


Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion, benevolence, and humanity.

JOSEPH ADDISON

The Spectator, Sep. 12, 1711


Be a little kinder than you have to.

E. LOCKHART

We Were Liars


True kindness is a pure divine affinity,
Not founded upon human consanguinity.
It is a spirit, not a blood relation,
Superior to family and station.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Of Friendship


Kindness is the green grass near the hard pebbles of the road.

JAMES L. GORDON

The Homiletic Review, Jun. 1917


I expect to pass through this life but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.

STEPHEN GRELLET

attributed, Bennam's Book of Quotations


Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence or learning.

FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER

attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words


Kindness is a graceful deed done without the other person's having to request it.

SHELDON B. STEPHENSON

Meditations on the Holy Spirit of God