"Finally, all of you be of one mind, having compassion for one another; love as brothers, be tenderhearted, be courteous;:" 1 Peter 3:8
"I choose kindness...I will be kind to the poor, for they are alone. Kind to the rich, for they are afraid. And kind to the unkind, for such is how God has treated me." ~Max Lucado
"By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him? My little children, let us not love in word or tongue, but in deed and truth." ~1 John 3:16-18
"The Christian faith is meant to be lived moment by moment. It isn't some broad, general, outline--it's a long walk with a real Person. Details count: passing thoughts, small sacrifices, a few encouraging words, little acts of kindness, brief victories over nagging sins." ~Joni Eareckson Tada
"Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used." ~Blaise Pascal
"While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight; while children go hungry, as they do now I'll fight; while men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I'll fight; while there is a drunkard left, while there is a poor lost girl upon the streets, while there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight; I'll fight to the very end! " ~General William Booth
"Jesus, the Light of the World, as we celebrate your birth... may we begin to see the world in the light of understanding as you give us. As you chose the lowly, the outcasts, and the poor to receive the greatest news the world had ever known, so may we worship you in meekness of heart. May we also remember our brothers and sisters less fortunate than ourselves in this season of giving. Amen."~Karen L. Oberst
"Not called!" did you say? Not heard the call, 'I think you should say. Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father's house and bid their brothers and sisters and servants and masters not to come there. Then look Christ in the face... whose mercy you have professed to obey... and tell Him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish His mercy to the world."
"We must never minimize the suffering of another. Scripture's mandate to us is, "Weep with them that weep." (Romans 12:15, KJV)~Billy Graham
"No matter how little you have, you can always give some of it away." ~Catherine Marshall
"Do you wish to commune with God in your mind? Strive to be merciful... A man should first of all begin to be merciful in the measure that our heavenly Father is merciful." ~Isaac of Syria
"He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything." ~Samuel Johnson
"?keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. And on some have compassion, making a distinction; but others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire, hating even the garment defiled by the flesh." ~Jude 1:21-23
