There is another kind of divine working that may occur without our being aware of it, or at least without our recognizing it for what it is. This is that wondrous operation of God known in theology as prevenient grace.
—AW Tozer
Felt an abasing sense of my own impurity and unholiness; and felt my soul melt and mourn, that I had abused and grieved a very gracious God, who was still kind to me, notwithstanding all my unworthiness.
—David Brainerd
It is confessedly true, that God’s good pleasure appointing us from eternity to salvation, is, in its kind, a most full and sufficient impulsive cause of our salvation, and every way able (for so much as it is concerned) to produce its effect.
—John Flavel
Oh, methinks, if he would punish me for my sins, it would not wound my heart so deep to offend him: but though I sin continually, yet he continually repeats his kindness to me! Oh, methinks I could bear any sufferings; but how can I bear to grieve and dishonour this blessed God!
—David Brainerd
Oh speak and spare not, whatever thou believest may conduce, either to the amending my faults, the strengthening my weakness, the building me up in love, or the making me more fit, in any kind, for the Master’s use!
—John Wesley
“As soon as a person is converted and added to the church he should become the object of the care and kindness of his fellow members.”
“Let us seek more faith, more love, more patience, more zeal: let us labour after greater charity, greater brotherly kindness, greater humbleness of spirit.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Be the kind of person that you want people to think you are.
—Socrates
Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ah, people are so patronizing in the presence of Jesus today. They say such kind, polite things about him.
—J. Gresham Machen
The philosopher Kant said that two things always astonished and inspired him more and more: the starry sky and the consciousness of the law of kindness that a person recognizes in his soul.
—Leo Tolstoy
He both satisfied for sin and procured the promise. He procures all the love and kindness which are the fruits of the covenant, being himself the original promise thereof
—John Owen
How amiable and beautiful a thing it is to see persons thankful for kindness.
—Jonathan Edwards
If you relate the truth with anger or passion you won’t convince anyone no matter how obvious to you the truth you’re relating is. Relate the truth with kindness and the stupidest person in the world will understand you.
—Leo Tolstoy
The kinder and more rational a person is, the more he recognizes himself in others. A stupid, unkind person thinks that all other people are alien to him. A wise and kind person knows that the most valuable thing within him is also within every other person.
—Leo Tolstoy
Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
“It is that, by faith in Christ, the ruling power of sin is immediately broken, and that every sin, of every kind, may be overcome by faith in the blood of Jesus Christ.”
– Charles Spurgeon
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
—Charles Darwin
“[…]there is pardon for the greatest guilt through faith in Jesus Christ, — that his precious blood, shed on Calvary’s cross, is able to cleanse from all sin of every kind, and that as many as believe in him are saved.”
– Charles Spurgeon
It is confessedly true, that God’s good pleasure appointing us from eternity to salvation, is, in its kind, a most full and sufficient impulsive cause of our salvation, and every way able (for so much as it is concerned) to produce its effect.
—John Flavel
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
—Charles Darwin
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
—Franz Kafka
We don’t and can’t know what happiness for all people consists of, but we know full well that gaining this common happiness is possible only through the eternal law of kindness, revealed through human wisdom and residing in the hearts of all people.
—Leo Tolstoy
I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop.
—Michelangelo
There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitching of a mean merrymaker.
—Nikolai Gogol
If man is not to stifle his human feelings, he must practice kindness towards animals, for he who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
—Immanuel Kant
Kind words don’t cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
—Blaise Pascal
What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
—Blaise Pascal
Be kind.
Every person you meet is fighting a difficult battle.
—Plato