Top 1200 Kindness Of God Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Kindness moves mountains. Acceptance opens doors, makes room for change, diffuses misunderstandin g.

On the cross, Jesus won the right for believers to be born again back into the god-class. Adam was created, not subordinate to God, but as a god; he lost it, and in Christ we are taken back to the god-class.

In one of the accounts of Jesus's death we read that the curtain in the temple of God-the one that kept people out of the holiest place of God's presence-ripped.One New Testament writer said that this ripping was a picture of how, because of Jesus, we can have new, direct access to God.A beautiful idea.But the curtain ripping also means that God comes out, that God is no longer confined to the temple as God was previously.

We are compelled by the theory of God's already achieved perfection to make Him a devil as well as a god, because of the existenceof evil. The god of love, if omnipotent and omniscient, must be the god of cancer and epilepsy as well.... Whoever admits that anything living is evil must either believe that God is malignantly capable of creating evil, or else believe that God has made many mistakes in His attempts to make a perfect being.

We, like the people of Israel, would like to think we get to name God. By naming God, we hope to get the kind of god we need; that is, a god after our own likeness.

An honest kiss, a little kindness, everyone deserves that much, however big or small.

God doesn't want to give Israel a king, because God knows, being the rather observant deity God is, that the Israelites will become like all other nations: they will worship their king and not God.

True religion is when you serve God to get nothing else but more of God. Many people use religion as a way of getting something else from God they want-blessings, rewards, even escape from judgement. This is wearisome to us, and to God. But when God is His own reward, Christianity becomes thrilling. Sacrifice becomes joy.

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

Liesel observed the strangeness of her foster father's eyes. They were made of kindness, and silver.

I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.

How hard is it for God to get your attention? Do you regularly practice turning aside in your day? That is, taking a moment to listen to God- because God, through the Holy Spirit, really is speaking, because we know, every place is filled with the presence of God. There is not an inch of space, not a moment of time, that God does not inhabit.

The male - I have found - is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.

Giving kindness does as much good as receiving it...Kind people are healthier and live longer.

Kindness can reach the deepest call of the heart and soul, and lead to a different kind of world and self.

If you feel a great loneliness and a deep longing for human contact, you have to be extremely discerning...and ask yourself whether this situation is truly God given. Because where God wants you to be, God holds you safe and gives you peace, even when there is pain. To live a disciplined life is to live in such a way that you want only to be where God is with you. The more deeply you live your spiritual life, the easier it will be to discern the difference between living with God and living without God, and the easier it will be to move away from the places where God is no longer with you.

It's always good to remind yourself of how awful people can be, even when they seem to be projecting kindness.

Argument cannot be answered with insults. Kindness is strength; anger blows out the lamp of the mind.

Meet hostility and suspicion with kindness. Helping others out of love is always the best option.

In order to understand God, you have to learn to listen. You're thoughts talk very loudly all the time. But God is very, very, very quiet. God doesn't speak through words or thoughts. God doesn't speak. God is silent.

A true God chaser is not happy with just past truth; he must have present truth. God chasers don't want to just study from the moldy pages of what God has done; they're anxious to see what God is doing.

Whether or not we follow any particular spiritual tradition, the benefits of love and kindness are obvious to anyone.

The third major characteristic of God - "infinitude" - is the catchall, the universal modifier of Christian theology. God is not merely a being; he is infinite being. God is not merely good; he is infinite goodness. God is not merely wise; he is infinite wisdom. And so on down the list. God is exaggeration run amuck.

Success is like a mountain that keeps growing ahead of you as you hike it... Err in the direction of kindness.

I am full of the milk of human kindness, damn it. My trouble is that it gets clotted so easily.

When the norm is decency, other virtues can thrive: integrity, honesty, compassion, kindness, and trust.

I am deeply distressed by what I only can call in our Christian culture the idolatry of the Scriptures. For many Christians, the Bible is not a pointer to God but God himself... God cannot be confined within the covers of a leather-bound book. I develop a nasty rash around people who speak as if mere scrutiny of its pages will reveal precisely how God thinks and precisely what God wants.

True religion is not talk, or doctrines, or theories, nor is it sectarianism. It is the relation between soul and God. Religion does not consist in erecting temples, or building churches, or attending public worship. It is not to be found in books, or in words, or in lectures, or in organizations. Religion consists in realization. We must realize God, feel God, see God, talk to God. That is religion.

As to his gospel, Jesus Christ came into the world as the image of the invisible God to communicate to us that not only did we not need to be afraid of God, but that God is more for us than we are ourselves or one another. God's love is infinite, and unstoppable, and will win!

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

The first thing that we need to say is that God is grieving, too. Uh, a lot of people try to make it sound like 'well everything that happens is God's will.' That's nonsense. God allows everything, but God does not choose everything.

Allah's the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.

I like to think that it isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair.

Do what you do only for God's sake, start for God's sake, work for God's sake, and act within the sphere of God's good approval.

When God spoke to Moses and others in the Old Testament, those events were encounters with God. An encounter with Jesus was an encounter with God for the disciples. In the same way an encounter with the Holy Spirit is an encounter with God for you.

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

When you are attracted to people, it's because of the details. Their kindness. Their eyes. The fact that they can get you to laugh when you need it the most.

A mind committed to compassion is like an overflowing reservoir - a constant source of energy, determination, and kindness.

Some show their kindness to the poor by employing them in their kitchens. Would they not be kinder if they employed themselves there?

The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

The selfless giving, the service, the kindness which you give out into this world that is the currency of (the) meaning (of life).

Enlightened Society is all about nurturing the human spirit - waking up to the goodness, kindness and strength that we already have.

Everything we now enjoy has been provided through the kindness of other beings, past or present.

It's curious how, when you're in love, you yearn to go about doing acts of kindness to everybody.

We carry with us, as human beings, not just the capacity to be kind, but the very choice of kindness.

Kindness boggles my mind. It's the only force in nature that increases simultaneously for the giver and the receiver.

Genesis 1...was designed to reflect God, both to reflect God back to God in worship and to reflect God into the rest of creation in stewardship.

We really want to thank everyone for their kindness and generosity, even those who aren't helping us directly.

The stranger who receives the rare gift of human kindness holds its value in his heart forever.

Revelation does not mean man finding God, but God finding man, God sharing His secrets with us, God showing us Himself. In revelation, God is the agent as well as the object.

You killed my Dad." Any trace of kindness or sympathy vanished from Rixon's eyes. "Well this is awkward.

I realized that social media can be powerful force for good in the world and that acts of kindness can be scaled globally.

If your reason for worshipping God is merely from a sense of moral duty, God would rather you not worship Him at all. To say that God is pleased with worship that lacks passion is to say God endorses hypocrisy.

When we look at the cross we see the justice, love, wisdom and power of God. It is not easy to decide which is the most luminously revealed, whether the justice of God in judging sin, or the love of God in bearing the judgment in our place, or the wisdom of God in perfectly combining the two, or the power of God in saving those who believe. For the cross is equally an act, and therefore a demonstration, of God’s justice, love, wisdom and power. The cross assures us that this God is the reality within, behind and beyond the universe.

There can be no greater act of kindness than to help others when your own world has been destroyed.

I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.

There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives--the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you may have right in your own family. Find them. Love them. ---Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart. Speak tenderly to them. Let there be kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile, in the warmth of your greeting. Always have a cheerful smile. Don't only give your care, but give your heart as well.

Loving-kindness is required, but a follower of Christ-just like the Master-will be firm in the truth.

Do we not see God at work in our circumstances? Dark times are allowed and come to us through the sovreignty of God. Are we prepared to let God do what He wants with us? Are we prepared to be separated from the outward, evident blessings of God? Until Jesus Christ is truly our Lord, we each have goals of our own which we serve. Our faith is real, but it is not yet permanent. And God is never in a hurry. If we are willing to wait, we will see God pointing out that we have been interested only in his blessings, instead of God Himself.

Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything.