• Melt It, Don't Hammer It

  Contributed by Ken Pell on Jul 24, 2011 (message contributor)

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  Scripture:  Galatians 5:22-23

  Tags:  Kindness

  Denomination: Nazarene

MELT IT, DON'T HAMMER IT

Alexander Maclaren once said, "Kindness makes a person attractive. If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer it."

The writer from the 1930’s, Somerset Maugham, had a mother who was an extraordinarily beautiful woman his father was an extraordinarily ugly man. When a family friend once asked how such a beautiful woman could have married such an ugly man, she replied, "He has never once hurt my feelings."

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