Kindness & compassion quotes, explained
Small acts, big hearts: what famous people actually said about kindness. Each one is checked against its original source, so you know who really said it before you use it.
Jo March grumbles that Christmas is ruined because the family is too poor for gifts. The rest of the chapter shows the sisters discovering that giving to others makes the day.
Read the full explanation →Even while being executed, Jesus asks God to forgive the people responsible, because they do not understand what they are doing.
Read the full explanation →Tiny Tim, a sick little boy from a poor family, asks God's blessing on everyone at the Christmas table. Dickens ends the whole book with it, turning a child's grace into a blessing on the reader.
Read the full explanation →Scrooge, shown his own lonely grave, promises to live by the spirit of Christmas, meaning generosity and kindness, every day of the year, not just on December 25.
Read the full explanation →Paul describes the kind of love that should hold a community together: patient, kind, humble and enduring. It was written to a quarreling church, not a couple.
Read the full explanation →Treat even people who hate you with goodwill, wish them well and pray for them, just as God sends sunshine and rain on good and bad people alike.
Read the full explanation →The best part of a good person's life is not their big achievements but the small, everyday kindnesses that nobody records and they themselves forget.
Read the full explanation →Spoken weeks before the Civil War ended and six weeks before Lincoln was killed. He asked the winning side to heal the nation without revenge.
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