Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.
—Plato
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
—Plato
Be nicer than necessary to everyone you meet. Everyone is fighting some kind of battle.
—Socrates
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
—Socrates
We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity; more than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.
—Charlie Chaplin
Kind Father, teach us how to show Thy kindness.
—Amy Carmichael
And in the one kind or the other, every follower of Christ will surely have need to take up his cross daily.
—John Wesley
For with the Redeemer’s birth, peace, and all kind of happiness, come down to dwell on earth: yea, the overflowings of Divine good will and favour are now exercised toward men.
—John Wesley
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
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
—Mark Twain
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
It is a mistake to look for grace to visit us as a kind of benign magic, or to expect God’s help to come as a windfall apart from conditions known & met. To desire revival, for instance, and at the same time to neglect prayer & devotion is to wish one way and walk another.
—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
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
The gracious soul hates not only this or that particular sin, but the whole kind—everything that is sinful. True hatred is of the whole nature or kind. I hate every false way (Ps. 119:104).
—John Flavel
Faith is an outward look, not an inward look. A great many people are looking at their feelings, a great many people are looking down here. Don’t be looking at your feelings, but look at heaven; and if you have got the right kind of Christ, you will have the right kind of faith.
—D. L. Moody
The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
Augustine
The war is a horrid, unnatural kind of thing even in its least horrible aspects.
—J. Gresham Machen
I tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? Why, greyhound puppies. That’s a totally different matter.
—Nikolai Gogol
Nothing will beautify your life and the life of others like establishing kindness as a habit.
—Leo Tolstoy
Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness. – C.S. Lewis
You should speak without thinking about what you’re going to say only when you feel calm, kind, and sympathetic. If you’re agitated and annoyed, beware of saying something harmful.
—Leo Tolstoy
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
There’s no kind of external organization of the world, no sort of external laws and regulations that can change the life of the world; only the inner effort of each individual can.
—Leo Tolstoy
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
When he opens his bountiful hand to us and deals forth of his kindness, what God gives is not only for our enjoyment but for our improvement.
—Jonathan Edwards
In Christ the very nature of God is discovered to be love and kindness; and that he will exercise the same to sinners, he hath promised, sworn and solemnly engaged himself by covenant.
—John Owen