Pastoral Resources

I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.

The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers.

When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.

A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.

Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him - with kindness or roughness as his case may demand.

Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.

Well, I'll tell you something, this wedding is something that I will always, always cherish. It was a show of love and support and kindness like I'd never seen from the people, and that's who I entertain. I entertain the people.

There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.

Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon.

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.

There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers.

Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.

You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart.

The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.

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.