“See here, if a simple act of kindness or generosity, such as buying a loaf of bread for some poor working women, can mean that wholesale death and destruction will be avoided - why, a man would be a monster who had it in his power to alleviate all that suffering yet stood by and did nothing.” IfsMenMeanWould BeSufferingSimplePoorKindnessDestructionMonstersBreadGenerosityBuyingAvoidedActs Of KindnessAlleviateWholesaleWorking WomenSimple Acts Of Kindness Author:Stephen R. Lawhead
“If I had to give up my life for anything, it would have to have the resilience of hope, the elation of new literacy, the brilliant life of a field of flowers, the elementary kindness of bread. Nothing short of that. It would have to be something as sure as love.” IfsGivingKindnessFieldsFlowerGiving UpResilienceBrilliantBreadLiteracyElation Author:Barbara Kingsolver
“It is the human things that make life good, the unexpected kindness, the friendly note, the bracing word, the neighbour's extra loaf of bread she leaves at our back door.” HumansKindnessDoorsNotesBreadExtrasUnexpectedFriendlyGood LifeNeighbourBack Doors Author:Stevie Ray Vaughan
“Many couples permit their marriages to become stale and their love to grow cold like old bread or worn-out jokes or cold gravy. These people will do well to reevaluate, to renew their courting, to express their affection, to acknowledge kindness, and to increase their consideration so their marriage again can become beautiful, sweet, and growing. While marriage is difficult, and discordant and frustrated marriages are common, yet real, lasting happiness is possible, and marriage can be more an exultant ecstasy than the human mind can conceive.” PeopleMindHumansWellsRealBeautifulGrowsDifficultCommonKindnessGrowingSweetColdCoupleJokesIncreaseAffectionBreadAcknowledgeConsiderationLastingHuman MindEcstasyPermitFrustratedWornStaleWorn OutGravyLasting Happiness Author:Spencer W. Kimball
“It wasn’t like in the storybooks. No witches lurked at crossroads disguised as crones, waiting to reward travelers who shared their bread. Genies didn’t burst from lamps, and talking fish didn’t bargain for their lives. In all the world, there was only one place humans could get wishes: Brimstone’s shop. And there was only one currency he accepted. It wasn’t gold, or riddles, or kindness, or any other fairy-tale nonsense, and no, it wasn’t souls, either. It was weirder than any of that. It was teeth.” WorldHumansSoulWishWaitingTalkingKindnessGoldRewardsFishesAcceptedTalesTeethBreadFairyShopsNonsenseWitchFairy TaleCurrencyTravelerLampsBargainsRiddleCrossroadsGenies Author:Laini Taylor
“There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much.” PeopleSufferingPoorPovertyKindnessOrdinaryHungerBreadLove And KindnessThoughtfulnessGoodness And KindnessHunger For Love Book:Mother Teresa: Essential Writings Source: Mother Teresa: Essential Writings
“Hungry not only for bread - but hungry for love. Naked not only for clothing - but naked of human dignity and respect. Homeless not only for want of a home of bricks - but homeless because of rejection.” WantLoveHumansHomeKindnessDignityHungryBreadNakedRejectionClothingsHomelessBricksHuman DignityDignity And RespectHungry For Love Book:Mother Teresa: Essential Writings Source: Mother Teresa: Essential Writings
“I am writing to all the Churches and I enjoin all, that I am dying willingly for God's sake, if only you do not prevent it. I beg you, do not do me an untimely kindness. Allow me to be eaten by the beasts, which are my way of reaching to God. I am God's wheat, and I am to be ground by the teeth of wild beasts, so that I may become the pure bread of Christ.” IfsWayWritingMayChristChurchKindnessDyingPureSakeTeethBreadMy WayBeastReachingWheatWild Beasts Author:Ignatius of Antioch