Be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.
Mother Teresa

Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.
Willa S. Cather

Hence we must support one another, console one another, mutually help, counsel, and advise.
Thomas a Kempis

Kind words are the music of the world.
Frederick W. Faber

We are all healers who can reach out and offer health, and we are all patients in constant need of help.
Henri Nouwen

There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.
Mother Teresa

What I do, you cannot do; but what you do, I cannot do.  The needs are great, and none of us, including me, ever do great things.  But we can all do small things, with great love and together we can do something wonderful.
Mother Teresa

To enjoy the journey is to leap into people’s lives.  To enjoy the journey is to give until the stretch is a sacrifice.  The question always is: what is it in life that will pull you out of your seat to be brave, risk and serve?
Janie Jasin

I choose gentleness. Nothing is won by force. I choose to be gentle. If I raise my voice may it be only in praise. If I clench my fist, may it be only in prayer. If I make a demand, may it be only of myself.
Max Lucado

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
Albert Schweitzer

An American tourist in India stood by in awe as he watched Mother Teresa lovingly clean the infected wounds of a horribly disfigured leper, “Sister,” he commented, “I wouldn’t do that for a million dollars!” Her response, “Neither would I, brother. Neither would I.”
Mother Teresa

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.
Han Suyin

The more vigor you need, the more gentleness and kindness you must combine with it. All stiff, harsh goodness is contrary to Jesus.
Francois de Fenelon

“Sometimes I would like to ask God why He allows poverty, suffering, and injustice when He could do something about it.”
“Well, why don’t you ask Him?”
“Because I’m afraid He would ask me the same question.”
Unknown

If you eat food every day, you should care about the people who don’t.
Eva Longoria

What a wonderful miracle, if only we could look through each other’s eyes for an instant.
Henry David Thoreau

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
Mother Teresa

Beautiful faces are they that wear
The light of a pleasant spirit there;
Beautiful hands are they that do
Deeds that are noble, good and true;
Beautiful feet are they that go
Swiftly to lighten another’s woe.
McGuffey’s Second Reader

A friend who was working in the Dominican Republic with Habitat for Humanity had befriended a small boy named Etin.  He noticed that when Etin wore a shirt at all it was always the same dirty, tattered one.  A box of used clothes had been left at the camp, and my friend found two shirts in it that were in reasonably good shape and about Etin’s size, so he gave them to the grateful boy.  A few days later he saw another boy wearing one of the shirts.  When he next met up with Etin he explained that the shirts were meant for him.  Etin just looked at him and said, “But you gave me two!”
Unknown

A few years ago I had managed to screw up my life so badly that I found myself without a home and without hope.  I’m ashamed to admit it, but even then I was so absorbed by my own self-pity that all I could think of was begging enough money to buy the cheapest drink I could find.  One day I was sitting in front of a store panhandling when a woman walked by with a small boy in tow.  She ignored my pitch and hurried away.  As I watched them go down the sidewalk the small boy broke free and came running back.  He stood in front of me, fumbling in his coat pocket; he pulled out a five-dollar bill that was almost certainly more money than he had ever held before, and handed it to me.  I was completely dumbstruck and just sat there staring at him with the money in my hand.  By then his mother had returned and with tears in her eyes gently led the boy away.  He turned back once to wave and they were gone.  I don’t know how long I sat there, but I have not had another drink since then.
Unknown

When I was young, I admired clever people.  Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

Language can easily be a barrier rather than a bridge, whereas in every language the smile, the gentle touch, the embrace are the same- and in every century, too.
Philip Pare

Nobody is kind to only one person at once, but to many persons in one.
Frederick W. Faber

I used to think I was poor.  Then they told me I wasn’t poor, I was needy.  Then they told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, that I was culturally deprived.  Then they told me deprived was a bad image, that I was underprivileged.  Then they told me underprivileged was overused, that I was disadvantaged.  I still don’t have a dime, but I do have a great vocabulary.
Jules Feiffer

Nothing is more dangerous than to live out the will of God in today’s contemporary world.  It changes your whole monetary lifestyle…Let me put it quite simply: If Jesus had $40,000 and knew about the kids who are suffering and dying in Haiti, what kind of car would he buy?
Tony Campolo

It is in the shelter of each other that the people live.
Irish proverb

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.
Philo of Alexandria

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a wonderful law of nature that the three things we crave most – happiness, freedom, and peace of mind – are always attained by giving them to someone else.
Unknown

A smile takes but a moment, but its effects sometimes last forever.
J. E. Smith

One kind word can warm three winter months.
Japanese proverb

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another. George Eliot

Every person I have known who has been truly happy, has learned how to serve others.
Albert Schweitzer

If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.
Chinese proverb

Sometimes someone says something really small, and it just fits right into this empty place in your heart.
My So-Called Life

Feelings are everywhere – be gentle.
J. Masai

The hungry need bread and the homeless need a roof; the dispossessed need justice and the lonely need fellowship; the undisciplined need order and the slaves need freedom.  To allow the hungry to remain hungry would be blasphemy against God and one’s neighbor, for what is nearest to God is precisely the need of one’s neighbor.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Come along inside, we’ll see if tea and buns can make the world a better place.
Kenneth Grahame

Dan Clark recalls that when he was a teenager, he and his father once stood in line to buy tickets for the circus.  As they waited, they noticed the family immediately in front of them.  The parents were holding hands, and they had eight children in tow, all behaved well and all probably under the age of twelve.  Based on their clean but simple clothing, he suspected they didn’t have a lot of money.  The kids jabbered about the exciting things they expected to see, and he could tell that the circus was going to be a new adventure for them.
As the couple approached the counter, the attendant asked how many tickets they wanted.  The man proudly responded, “Please let me buy eight children’s tickets and two adult tickets so I can take my family to the circus.”
When the attendant quoted the price, the man’s wife let go of his hand, and her head drooped.  The man leaned a little closer and asked, “How much did you say?”  The attendant again quoted the price.  The man obviously didn’t have enough money.  He looked crushed.
Clark says his father watched all of this, put his hand in his pocket, pulled out a twenty-dollar bill, and dropped it on the ground.  His father then reached down, picked up the bill, tapped the man on the shoulder, and said, “Excuse me, sir, this fell out of your pocket.”
The man knew exactly what was going on.  He looked straight into Clark’s father’s eyes, took his hand, shook it, and with a tear streaming down his cheek, replied, “Thank you, thank you, sir.  This really means a lot to me and my family.”
Clark and his father went back to their car and drove home.  They didn’t have enough money to go to the circus that night, but it didn’t matter.  They had encouraged a whole family.  And it was something neither family would ever forget.
John C. Maxwell

We hurt people by being too busy.  Too busy to notice their needs.  Too busy to drop that note of comfort or encouragement or assurance of love.  Too busy to listen when someone needs to talk.  Too busy to care.
Billy Graham

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
Benjamin Disraeli

A smile creates happiness in the home, fosters good will in business and is the countersign of friends.  It is rest to the weary, daylight to the discouraged, sunshine to the sad, and nature’s best antidote for trouble.  Yet it cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, for it is something that is no earthly good to anybody until it is given away.  Keep smiling- and let your smile be one of sincerity.  Don’t just force it out to make a sale, to keep out of a fight, or for similar reasons.  But smile from the heart out, making those who see you smile do likewise in a feeling of good fellowship.
James M. Tulloch

A simple gesture can make an enormous difference.  Without even knowing it, you could change the life of another person.
Laura Schroff

Few kindnesses are as warmly welcomed as sincere, objective interest.
Norman G. Shidle

A young man who saw all the sin, selfishness, and injustice in the world complained to his pastor that God had made a mess of things.  “Why,” the boy said, “I could make a better world myself.”  “Good,” said the pastor, “go to it; that is just why you’re here!”
Unknown

The Day’s Result
Is anybody happier because you passed his way? Does anyone remember that you spoke to him today? The day is almost over and its toiling time is through; Is there anyone to utter now a kindly word of you? Did you give a cheerful greeting to the friend who came along, Or a churlish sort of “Howdy”; then vanish in the throng? Were you selfish, pure and simple, as you rushed along your way, Or is someone mighty grateful for a deed you did today? Can you say tonight, in parting with the day that’s slipping fast, That you helped a single brother of the many that you passed? Is a single heart rejoicing over what you did or said? Does the man whose hopes were fading now with courage look ahead? Did you waste the day or lose it, was it well or poorly spent? Did you leave a trail of kindness, or a scar of discontent? As you close your eyes in slumber, do you think that God would say, “You have earned one more tomorrow by the work you did today?”
Unknown

Christ has no body on earth now but yours, no hands but yours, no feet but yours.  Yours are the eyes through which to look out Christ’s compassion to the world.  Yours are the feet with which He is to go about doing good, and yours are the hands with which he is to bless us now.
Teresa of Avila

O Lord, baptize our hearts into a sense of the conditions and needs of all men.
George Fox, founder of the Quaker Society

Kindness is just the word for [certain] small acts.  Kindness is love flowing out in little gentlenesses.  We ought to carry our lives so that they will be perpetual benedictions wherever we go.  All we need for such a ministry is a heart full of love for Christ; for if we truly love Christ we shall also love our fellow men, and love will always find ways of helping.  A heart filled with gentleness cannot be miserly of its benedictions.
James R. Miller

Kind words make good echoes.
Unknown

Charity begins today. Today somebody is suffering, today somebody is in the street, today somebody is hungry. Our work is for today, yesterday has gone, tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today.
Mother Teresa

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
Albert Schweitzer

Remember that man’s name is to him the sweetest and most important sound in the English language.
Dale Carnegie

Peace of mind should not be an objective of life.  More often than not, peace of mind leads to a state of peace without mind.  There are causes that should call us; there are cries of help that should move us; there are people who need us; there are conditions that demand us.  Floating around in one’s own tub of butter should not be a goal for an intelligent life.  Let us find tranquility in the doing, not in the being.
Saul Teplitz

We may wonder whom can I love and serve?  Where is the face of God to whom I can pray?  The answer is simple.  That naked one.  That lonely one.  That unwanted one is my brother and my sister.  If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Teresa

In Jesus the service of God and the service of the least of the brethren were one.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The question of bread for myself is a material question; but the question of bread for my neighbour, for everybody, is a spiritual and a religious question.
Nikolai Berdyaev

There is a story about an old woman who was in distress because she had lost her sense of God.  A friend who was with her one day said, “Pray to God.  Ask Him to touch you.  He will put His hand on you.”  The old woman began to pray and suddenly felt a hand touching her.  She cried out in joy, “He has touched me!”  Then she added, “But do you know, it felt just like your hand!”  Her friend said, “Sure, what do you think God would be doing?  Did you think He’d reach a long arm out of heaven to touch you?  He just took the hand that was nearest and used that.”
Unknown

Being happy with God now means:
Loving as he loves,
Helping as he helps,
Giving as he gives,
Serving as he serves,
Rescuing as he rescues,
Being with him twenty-four hours,
Touching him in his distressing disguise.
Mother Teresa

Kindness is a language the blind can see and the deaf can hear.
L. James Harvey

To feel sorry for the needy is not the mark of a Christian- to help them is.
Fred Clark

The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.
William Hazlitt

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Teresa 

Make one person happy each day and in forty years you will have made 14,600 human beings happy for a little time at least.
Charley Willey 

The paradox of Christian leadership is that the way out is the way in, that only by entering into communion with human suffering can relief be found.
Henri Nouwen

I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with kindness, I usually make the right decision.
Unknown

If you’re not using your smile, you’re like a man with a million dollars in the bank and no checkbook.
Les Giblin

Our Lord has many weak children in his family, many dull pupils in his school, many raw soldiers in his army, many lame sheep in his flock. Yet he bears with them all, and casts none away. Happy is that Christian who has learned to do likewise with his brethren.
J. C. Ryle

Enable me, our Father, to realize that words once spoken, like coins in circulation, pass from person to person along an uncharted course. Grant me the insight so to speak that any words of mine may be repeated without giving hurt. Help me not to criticize but rather to stress the things that are pure, lovely, and of good report. Make my habit of thought gentle and eager to pass along news of kindness and work well done. May my words build, never destroy, faith and confidence. To this end I pray that Thou wilt lead me in the ways of understanding. Amen.
Unknown

When I see pictures of tragedy,
Don’t let it get old to me
When I see hunger and poverty,
Don’t let it get old to me
When I see hatred and jealousy,
Don’t let it get old to me
When I see shattered integrity,
Don’t let it get old to me
Let my heart be broken
Give me eyes of compassion
Don’t let my hunger diminish
But let me finish strong
I want to hear you say to me
Well done

Pictures of Tragedy