Much has been said (both true and false) about "kindness" from so many people of different cultures, but what does God have to say about kindness and the importance of living kind in His kind Son (you know how the Bible is authoritative, but my opinions and yours might be worth a dime or so.. because they are not)? I never mind crowdsourcing to listen to sincere people today, but I indeed want to listen to the Word far more.. and wisely take heed. Love is not God, but God is love and He's always been kind who says...
"Love is patient, love is kind.." See 1 Corinthians 13:3-8 contextually
What did Jesus mean when He said, “He who has ears to hear”?
What does it mean to be doers of the Word in James 1:22?
How can Jesus and the Bible both be the Word of God?
What is the key to hearing God’s voice?
In the New Testiment the Greek word for “kindness” is chrēstotēs. It means “benignity, tender concern, uprightness.”
But what does the God who never changes say about kindness in the Old, like in the book of Proverbs? God says..
"Do not let mercy and kindness and truth leave you; instead let these qualities define you.." Proverbs 3:3
"Never let loyalty and kindness leave you! Tie them around your neck as a reminder. Write them deep within your heart." nlt
"Whoever oppresses a poor man insults his Maker, but he who is generous to the needy honors him." Proverbs 14:31 esv
"Why be oppressing or insulting anyone when God is the One who made them? 'To help the poor is to honor God.'" 14:31 tlb
"Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed." Proverbs 19:17 esv
"Mercy to the needy is a loan to God, and God pays back those loans in full." 19:17 msg
“What is desired in a man is kindness, and a poor man is better than a liar.” Proverbs 19:22 nkjv (He says a lot more on this too. BTW Chesed (in Hebrew: חֶסֶד) is the word meaning “kindness” between people, specifically of the loving devotional relationship believers have towards God as well as of the love and mercy of the Father, Son (Jesus) and the Holy Spirit towards humanity.
What does it mean to be kind to one another (Ephesians 4:32)?
How can I be sure and not go to hell? It'd be kind to tell me in advance?
Do you have more questions about Heaven, Hell, and Eternity?
So who will actually go to hell when the place was originally created for fallen rebellious angels?
Do gay and Tranny people go to heaven? Does God want them as well as you to turn and trust in His only provision for sin today? Yes. We've all sinned and need Christ's forgiveness.
Does God send people to hell, or do they send themselves by rejecting His good Solution (Jesus)?
What is the worm that will not die in Mark 9:48?
Does God love the people who are in hell?
What is the gospel of inclusion? .. How could this kind Father God send someone to hell?
What does hell look like? How hot is hell?
How is a whole eternity in hell a just punishment for only a human lifetime of sin?
Why is the idea of eternal damnation for some so "unkind and repulsive" to many people today?
Will heaven eventually be on earth? Yes.
How many prophecies did Jesus kindly fulfill?
What does it even mean that love is kind (1 Corinthians 13:4)?
How can God be kind when He allows stubborn people to go to Hell? Is it kind to honor or override people's free will? Is it kind to force people to go where they don't want to go or ever be? God will kindly honor your choices as well as mine.
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It is easy to forget a kindness, but one remembers unkindness. ~ Indian Proverbs
A kind word can attract even the snake from his nest. ~ Saudi Arabian Proverb
But do snakes typically understand any human language? No, but if a person of bad character is being called a snake here, could they be influenced to do something due to the kind words of a human?
A kind speech and forgiveness are better than alms followed by injury. ~ Middle Eastern Proverb
Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind. ~ English Proverb
Kind words are worth much and they cost little. ~ English Proverb
Kindness begets kindness. ~ Greek Proverb
This isn’t always the case, because some have a seared conscience, and many people have hard and stone kind of hearts.
Kind words conquer. ~ Tamil Proverb
Conquer what and how? Are we at times to return kind words for harsh or mean words?
Welcome is the best cheer. ~ Greek Proverb
Kind words will unlock an iron door. ~ Kurdish Proverbs
No, but kind words might move someone to do that for you and others.
A word of kindness is better than a fat pie. ~ Russian Proverb
Better to do a kindness near home than go far away to burn incense. ~ Chinese Proverb To speak kindly does not hurt the tongue. ~ Anon.
He who is narrow of vision cannot be big of heart. ~ Chinese Proverb
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses. ~ Chinese Proverb
One kind word can warm three winter months. ~ Japanese Proverbs
A kind word warms for three winters. ~ Chinese Proverb
Acts of kindness may soon be forgotten, but the memory of an offense remains. ~ English Proverb
Live in my heart and pay no rent. ~ Irish Proverbs
Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble. ~ French Proverb
With a sweet tongue of kindness, you can drag an elephant by a hair. ~ Persian Proverb
One kind word can warm three winter months. ~ Japanese Proverbs
Do not forget little kindnesses and do not remember small faults. ~ Chinese Proverb
The greatest wisdom of all is kindness. ~ Jewish Proverbs
Unfading are the gardens of kindness. ~ Greek Proverbs
A kind word is like a spring day. ~ Russian Proverbs
Gold is a debt we can repay, but kindness not till our dying day. ~ Malawian Proverb
The kind man feeds his cat before sitting down to dinner. ~ Hebrew Proverb
A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. ~ Chinese Proverb
One can pay back the loan of gold, but one lies forever in debt to those who are kind. ~ Malay Proverb
Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Uhh, no not sunshine, but could help with a person’s growth on some level.
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution. ~ Kahlil Gibran
A spark of kindness on it's knees can start a fire of real love that's shown, I mean a passion for God and His Gospel to make Him known. ~ @kurtwVs
Kindness is the evidence of greatness. If anyone is glad that you are here, then you have not lived in vain. ~ Charles Fenno Hoffman
If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have neglected much, and most of all yourself. ~ A. Neilen
Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it’s being done to him or by him. ~ Frank A. Clark
To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. ~ Samuel Johnson
The flower of kindness will grow. Maybe not now, but it will some day. And in kind that kindness will flow, For kindness grows in this way. ~ Robert Alan
Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home. ~ Kin Hubbard
I think women need kindness more than love. When one human being is kind to another, it’s a very deep matter. ~ Alice Childress
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. ~ Aesop Kindness is for all times in all situations — not just when it suits you. ~ Audray Landrum
A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward. ~ William John Bennett
There is nothing so kingly as kindness. ~ Alice Cary
Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary. ~ James M. Barrie
Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness. ~ Sophocles
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. ~ Joseph Joubert
Kindness, the poetry of the heart. ~ Aime Martin
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. ~ Samuel Johnson
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. ~ Theodore I. Rubin
Kindness is, of the bounteous tree, which we all so oft do seek to become sustained by. ~ Marc Anthony
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life, but needs it and may learn. ~ Philip James Bailey
Kindness is the touch of an angel’s hand. ~ James L. Gordon
Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave — and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way. ~ Alice Childress
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. ~ M. Teresa
Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything in life. ~ Isaac Bashevis
Kindness is something you have received and have to pass on in order to keep it. ~ Anon.
Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong. ~ Author Unknown
Kind people are the people God's people want to be. It's the carnal, self-righteous, worldly, religiously puffed up, and nominal-(dead-inside)-Christians who could give a flip -- they care less and give the gospel a blackeye! ~ k
Kindness in in prayer and other words creates anointed confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness of life. Kindness in giving should be from and spawn real love. Think of the kindnesses of our living God who is love, truth, and the way to choose. ~ k
Are there regrets for those past sins that were made in the attempt at kindness. Lie not, and rightly hold your tongues when it's wise to do so. ~ k
Kindness is the green grass near the hard pebbles of the road. ~ James L. Gordon
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away.~ Sir Arthur H.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than love. Kindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.~ Randolph Ray
Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand. ~ Christian Nestell Bovee
Kindness is just agape love with its work gloves and muddy boots on. ~ k
Kindness is the power that moves us to support and rightly comfort someone hurting who can offer us nothing in return. ~ Anon.
A small unkindness is a great offence. ~ Hannah More
Act with kindness as unto the Lord, and expect nothing in return from man. Why become disappointed? That could happen you know, but look to God to meet all your needs and be sure to tell your sons (not as some critical perfectionist) that you expect great things from their lives as you daily encourage them in the way. ~ k
It is difficult to give away kindness. It keeps coming back to you. ~ Cort Flint
Real kindness seeks no return. ~ Thiruvalluvar
Kindness is virtue itself. ~ Alphonse de Lamartine
Kindness can become its own motive. We are made into kind people by being kind. ~ Eric Hoffer
Kindness is a choice, a daily choice wisely made on our knees. Ask for guidance. ~ k
Kindness is the only charm permitted to the aged; it is the coquetry of white hairs. ~ Octave Feuillet
Be kind, spiritually uncompromising, honest and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without leaving blessed, a better and happier person loving God more. ~ k
Be kind, generous and loving in your thoughts, words and actions. ~ Ann Sykes Walter
Kindness is a hard thing to give away. It keeps coming back to the giver. ~ Ralpb Scott
Wherever there is a human-being there is an opportunity for kindness. ~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Without kindness, there can be no true joy. ~ Thomas Carlyle
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. ~ Mark Twain
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. ~ Philo
Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
As perfume is to the flower, so is kindness to speech (and deed). ~ Katherine Francke
Because that’s what kindness is. It’s not doing something for someone else because they can’t, but because you can. ~ Andrew Iskander
Loving kindness is greater than laws; and the (real) charities of life are more than all ceremonies. ~ The Talmud
A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money. ~ John Ruskin
To walk in kindness is to walk in the way of Christ. ~ J. Rodman Williams
Kindness is like snow; it makes everything it covers beautiful. ~ Author Unknown
Kindness is loving people more than they deserve. ~ Joseph Joubert
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.~ Blaise Pascal
There is no small act of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world. ~ Mary Anne Radmacher
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver. ~ Barbara De Angelis
Kindness is the touch of heaven, a reminder of the covenant of the unseen. ~ Mark Anthony
Want to firsthand experience the kindness of God? Repent and be forgiven, I mean of any and all sins that hurt Him. Yes, turn from your sin, trust in God, come to Christ right now and then beginning today.. treat Him kindly with respect. Yes, obey his Word. And treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. None of us are promised tomorrow here.
Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward (from mere man). Your life will never be the same again. ~ Og Mandino
Kindness is wisdom. ~ Philip James Bailey
You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force. ~ Publilius Syrus
I wonder why it is that we are not all kinder to each other.. How much the world needs kindness! How easily it is done! ~ Henry Drummond
Kindness is the very essence of the Eternal, the root of all existence, the primal font of all blessedness in all worlds. ~ David Thomas
Kindness is the velvet of social intercourse. ~ James L. Gordon
When one person shows kindness to another person, God shows up. ~ Steve Sjogren
Kindness is the music of Good Will to men, and on this harp the smallest fingers may play heaven’s sweetest tunes on earth. ~ Elihu Burritt
Kindness gives birth to kindness. ~ Sophocles
Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with proud stomachs. ~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Kindness, is sort of like a boomerang, tends often return. ~ k
Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind can see. ~ Author Unknown
How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it! ~ George Elliston
Human kindness seems twice blessed to me. It gets the believer blessed who gives it away with a right motive for God's glory, and the person who receives blessed it as well.. with a sense of the gracious benevolence of the God His kind obedient child represents. ~ k
"A gracious woman retains honor, but ruthless men retain riches. The merciful man does good for his own soul, but he who is cruel troubles his own flesh." Proverbs 11:16–17 nkjv
"She opens her hand to the poor and reaches out her hands to the needy." Proverbs 31:20 esv
"Whoever pursues righteousness and kindness will find life, righteousness, and honor." Proverbs 21:21 esv
"In mercy and truth atonement is provided for iniquity (KINDNESS); and by the fear of the Lord one departs from evil." Proverbs 16:6 nkjv emph.mine .. kurtwVs.medium.com
