KINDNESS
Kindness
makes a person attractive. If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer
it.
Cold words
freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter,
and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind words also produce their image on
men’s souls; and a beautiful image it is. They smooth, and quiet, and comfort
the hearer.
Blaise Pascal
Kindness
is a sincere desire for the happiness of others; goodness is the activity
calculated to advance that happiness. Kindness
is the inner disposition, created by the Holy Spirit, that
causes us to be sensitive to the needs of others, whether physical, emotional,
or spiritual. Goodness is kindness in action – words and deeds. ecause
of this close relationship, we often use the two words interchangeably.
Jerry Bridges
The Practice of Godliness, NavPress, 1996, p.
189. Used by permission of NavPress – www.navpress.com,
All rights reserved.
We need to
develop a kind disposition, to be sensitive to others and truly desire their
happiness. But sensitivity alone is not
enough: the grace of goodness impels us
to take action to meet those needs.
Jerry Bridges
The Practice of Godliness, NavPress, 1996, p.
191. Used by permission of NavPress – www.navpress.com,
All rights reserved.
Kindness is
love in action.
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Kindness is a
readiness to do good, to help, to relieve burdens, to
be useful, to serve, to be tender, and to be sympathetic to others. It has been
said, “Kindness is love in work clothes.”
Alexander Strauch
Leading With Love, Lewis and Roth, 2006, p. 44, Used by
Permission.