I will go anywhere—provided it be forward.
--DAVID LIVINGSTONE (1813–1873)

If you don’t invest much, defeat doesn’t hurt and winning is not exciting.
--DICK VERMEIL

Recognizing that our cause is, and will be, combated by mighty, determined and relentless forces, we will, trusting in him who is the Prince of Peace, meet argument with argument, misjudgment with patience, denunciations with kindness, and all our difficulties and dangers with prayer.
--FRANCES ELIZABETH CAROLINE WILLARD (1839–1898)

When faced with a mountain, I will not quit! I will keep on striving until I climb over, find a pass through, tunnel underneath . . . or simply stay and turn the mountain into a gold mine, with God’s help.
--ROBERT HAROLD SCHULLER

Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
--CHINESE PROVERB

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness that I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
--STEPHEN GRELLET (1773–1855)

Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power that seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel’s song that had lost its way and come on earth. It seems as if they could almost do what in reality God alone can do—soften the hard and angry hearts of men. No one was ever corrected by a sarcasm—crushed, perhaps, if the sarcasm was clever enough, but drawn nearer to God, never.
--FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER (1814–1863)

"They refused to listen and did not remember the miracles you had done for them. Instead, they rebelled and appointed a leader to take them back to their slavery in Egypt! But you are a God of forgiveness, gracious and merciful, slow to become angry, and full of unfailing love and mercy. You did not abandon them.
-- Neh. 9:17 -NLT

In a moment of anger I turned my face away for a little while. But with everlasting love I will have compassion on you," says the Lord, your Redeemer.
-- Isaiah 54:8 -NLT

For the mountains may depart and the hills disappear, but even then I will remain loyal to you. My covenant of blessing will never be broken," says the Lord, who has mercy on you.
--Isaiah 54:10

But what happens when we live God's way? He brings gifts into our lives, much the same way that fruit appears in an orchard—things like affection for others, exuberance about life, serenity. We develop a willingness to stick with things, a sense of compassion in the heart, and a conviction that a basic holiness permeates things and people. We find ourselves involved in loyal commitments.
--Galatians 5:22 -Message Bible

HEBREW SCRIPTURES:
LOVING-KINDNESS is essential and an distinctive quality of God, and the Hebrew prophets taught that it should also characterize God's people. It is part of the Divine requirement in Micah 6:8, "No, O people, the Lord has already told you what is good, and this is what he requires: to do what is right, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God."

Zech. 7:9 "This is what the Lord Almighty says: Judge fairly and honestly, and show mercy and kindness to one another.

The want of it in the nation was a cause of Yahweh’s controversy with them, e.g. Hosea 4:1 The Lord has filed a lawsuit against you, saying: "There is no faithfulness, no kindness, no knowledge of God in your land.

Hosea 12:6 So now, come back to your God! Act on the principles of love (kindness) and justice, and always live in confident dependence on your God.

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