Margaret Atwood Quotes

I believe He wants us to love others so much that we go to extremes to help them.

True kindness is a pure divine affinity, Not founded upon human consanguinity. It is a spirit, not a blood relation, Superior to family and station.

May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him!

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a person I am not moved to help him by proofs that he is in need; if I do love him, I wait for no proof of a special need to urge me to help him.

It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

I'm not the perfect person, but I have the perfect heart, I feel, when it comes to helping people.

The secret to greatness is in serving everyone else.

Love makes money-grabbing seem contemptible; love makes class prejudice impossible; love makes selfish ambition a thing to be despised; love converts enemies into friends.

Money is but one venue for generosity. Kindness is an even more valuable currency.

Love is that which exists to do good, not merely to get good.

It is love alone that leads to right action. What brings order in the world is to love and let love do what it will.

Kind souls, you wonder why, love you, When you, you wonder why, love none We love, Fool, for the good we do, Not that which unto us is done!

Loving people is the highest level of spiritual warfare that we could ever do

We help other people because we can, or because it makes us feel good, not because we're counting on some future payback. There is a word for this; love.

Human kindness has no reward. You should give to others in every way you see. expect absolutely nothing from anyone. It should be your goal to love every human you encounter. All human suffering that you're aware of and continues without your effort to stop it becomes your crime.

Learning to love unselfishly is not an easy task. It runs counter to our self-centered nature.

Lord, help us to live the virtue of generosity, to love without limits.

But that's what love is, isn't it? When it hurts you more to see someone suffer than it does to take the pain away?

There can be no greater gift than that of giving one’s time and energy to help others without expecting anything in return.

To be kind is good. To be kind without expecting anything in return is better.

He almosted smiled. "There you go again. Why? Why do yo keep helping me?" There were a million answers on my lips, everything from It's the right thing to do to I don't know. Instead, I said, "Because I want to.

Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness.

To love is to will the good of the other.

Love isn't love until you give it away.