As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
The thing is, I don't do these things for recognition, being a good teammate, being a positive member of the community. I do them because those things make me whole and complete.
Atticus, he was real nice." "Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.
Bobby was one of the few people I had ever known who really wanted to do something for me.
People can talk about how much they care about you, but the small things like this, people taking time out of their day to come and support, it's amazing.
I've always been attracted to girls whose hearts are the biggest thing about them. People can be very sweet and kind to others who can do a lot for them. I want to find a girl who will be the same person to those who can't do anything for her in return.
I have quite a strong sense of wanting to sort of, wanting to help others. I'm not claiming I'm a saint, but I have a genuine, genuine belief in trying to help others.
Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
True beauty lies in purity of the heart.
In a word: charity cannot be neutral, antiseptic, indifferent, lukewarm or impartial! Charity is infectious, it excites, it risks and it engages! For true charity is always unmerited, unconditional and gratuitous!
It is not enough to be nice; you have to be good. We are attracted by nice people; but only on the assumption that their niceness is a sign of goodness.
We should love others truly, for their own sakes rather than our own.
In my case, when I am trying to be "kind" I often default in a sort of toothless loving-all stance that is, actually, not kind, because it is not truthful.
There is perhaps no surer road to peace than the one that starts from little islands and oases of genuine kindness, islands and oases constantly growing in number and being continually joined together until eventually they ring the world.
No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies.
Honesty,sincer ity,simplicity, humility, pure generosity,abse nce of vanity,readines s to serve others -qualities which are within easy reach of every soul -are the foundation of one's spiritual life.
I love that man better who swears a stream as long as my arm yet deals justice to his neighbors and mercifully deals his substance to the poor, than the long, smooth faced hypocrite.
How can we know the true meaning of charity if we don't even know how to help those closest to us?
Nothing is rarer than real goodness.
Nothing is rarer than true good nature; they who are reputed to have it are generally only pliant or weak.
"When they finally saw him, why he hadn't done any of those things... Atticus, he was real nice..." His hands were under my chin, pulling up the cover, tucking it around me. "Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them."
Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.
A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.
True goodness is an inward grace, not an outward necessity.
You have a good heart and you think the good thing is to be guilty and kind but it's not always kind to be gentle and soft, there's a genuine violence softness and kindness visit on people. Sometimes self-interested is the most generous thing you can be.
