quotations about kindness
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
Kindness is about energy we give and take from all creatures. The bottom line is the integrative interaction and the total interconnectedness between human beings, all creatures, and God. Kindness is a spirituality of solid truth, not shifting emotion; of justice, not occasional philanthropy; of genuine love, not sentimentality or masochism; of evolved adults, not fixated infants.
JEAN MAALOUF
The Healing Power of Kindness
That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass -- deadly to the incautious wayfarer.
CHARLES SPURGEON
Baptismal Regeneration
To walk in kindness is to walk in the way of Christ.
JOHN RODMAN WILLIAMS
Renewal Theology
Kindness holds the key to the secret of our own transformation and, in the process, of the transformation of the world.
JEAN MAALOUF
The Healing Power of Kindness
There is no small act of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world.
MARY ANNE RADMACHER
Live Boldly
Little deeds of kindness, little words of love,
Help to make earth happy, like the heaven above.
JULIA CARNEY
Little Things
Kindness is the very essence of the Eternal, the root of all existence, the primal font of all blessedness in all worlds.
DAVID THOMAS
The Homilist, 1867
Warm hearts are better than great thoughts.
LYMAN ABBOTT
Laicus: Or, The Experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish
Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
attributed, Treasury of Thought
Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with proud stomachs.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
Extracts from the Writings of W. M. Thackeray
I have known the depths to which mortals are capable of descending, and I have seen the heights. I have seen how kindness and compassion may grow in the unlikeliest of places, as the mountain flower forces its way through the stern rock.
JACQUELINE CAREY
Kushiel's Dart
To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others. Even the briefest touch of kindness can lighten a heavy heart. Kindness can change the lives of people.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI
Nobel Lecture, Jun. 16, 2012
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
Emile
Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
Imaginary Conversations
Kindness is not something you need to struggle to formulate. You need only let down what defenses might be in place and see what wells up from inside you.
WILL GLENNON
Practice Random Acts of Kindness
Kindness is too often left uncultivated, because men do not sufficiently understand its value. Men may be charitable and not kind; merciful, yet not kind; self-denying and yet not kind. If they would add a little common kindness to their uncommon graces, they would convert ten where they now only abate the prejudice of one.
FREDERICK W. FABER
attributed, The Flight of the Swallow
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins them.
FRANCIS BACON
Essays
We seem to feel keenest the kindness that comes from one who is generally cruel.
LEWIS F. KORNS
Thoughts
When one person shows kindness to another person, God shows up.
STEVE SJOGREN
The Day I Died