Sermon quotes on kindness
Aesop
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Basil
He who plants kindness gathers love.
Lewis Carroll
I have had prayers answered – most strangely so sometimes – but I think our Heavenly Father’s loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Treat a man as he appears to be, and you make him worse. But treat a man as if he were what he potentially could be, and you make him what he should be.
Henry James
Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.
Quoted in Leon Edel, Henry James: A Life, vol V: The Master 1901-1916 (1972).
Max Lucado
The kindness of Jesus. We are quick to think of his power, his passion, and his devotion. But those near him knew and know God comes cloaked in kindness
New York Evangelist
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
John Ruskin
A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
Albert Schweitzer
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
Hudson Taylor
Wave after wave of trial rolled over us; but at the end of the year some of us were constrained to confess, that we had learned more of the loving-kindness of the Lord than in any previous year of our lives.
Quoted in A.J. Broomhall, Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Five: Refiner’s Fire”, 1985.
Unknown
Kindness is a language that deaf people can hear and that blind people can see.
Note: frequently (probably erroneously) attributed to Mark Twain. Original version published anonymously in 1861 in a newspaper.
Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend, St. Martin’s Press.
Mark Twain
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend, St. Martin’s Press.
William Arthur Ward
A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.
“Professor” Irwin Corey
You can get more done with a kind word and a gun, than with a gun alone.
Variety (1953)
Gayle Somers
All the cards in the deck of revelation about God’s mercy and kindness are stacked in favor of the unthinkable.
John Watson
Be kind, because everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.
prob. The British Weekly bf. 1897 (edited)
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