If a person feels the need to tell you the same story countless times, there is a reason. It is either important to their heart or they feel it is important for you to know. Be kind, be attentive, be patient and perhaps you will be the one God uses to help them move past where they are stuck.
Kindness
Ed Silvoso
We see the importance of honoring the word order in Romans 2:4 (NKJV), where Paul explains that it is “the goodness of God [that] leads you to repentance.” Repentance is elicited by goodness. It is not God’s wrath or anger, but His promise of grace to grant forgiveness that announces to the world, “Come! No sin can ever trump My grace!” Sinners flocked to Jesus, attracted by the grace He openly projected. His whole demeanor was engraved with “You are welcome,” written in letters of grace. Once sinners came to Him, He taught them the divine truth—exacting and costly, but always palatable because of the context of grace in which it was presented.
C. S. Lewis
Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
Ted Dekker
Today, treat everyone you meet as if they’re going to be dead by midnight. Extend all the kindness and understanding you can, and do it with no thought of any reward.
Katherine Walden
In every difficult interaction or conversation you have with others, whether that be from behind a pulpit or across the table at a coffee shop, remember that it was the unconditional love and kindness of God that drew you to repentance.
Let every word you speak drip with the same unconditional love and grace.
Charles R. Swindoll
Grace has to be the loveliest word in the English language. It embodies almost every attractive quality we hope to find in others. Grace is a gift of the humble to the humiliated. Grace acknowledges the ugliness of sin by choosing to see beyond it. Grace accepts a person as someone worthy of kindness despite whatever grime or hard-shell casing keeps him or her separated from the rest of the world. Grace is a gift of tender mercy when it makes the least sense.
C.S. Lewis
The real trouble is that ‘kindness’ is a quality fatally easy to attribute to ourselves on quite inadequate grounds. Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment. Thus a man easily comes to console himself for all his other vices by a conviction that ‘his heart’s in the right place’ and ‘he wouldn’t hurt a fly,’ though in fact he has never made the slightest sacrifice for a fellow creature. We think we are kind when we are only happy: it is not so easy, on the same grounds, to imagine oneself temperate, chaste, or humble.
Willa Hoey
It is the little things we do and say that means so much as we go our way. A kindly deed can lift a load from weary shoulders on the road.
Frederick W. Faber
The love is God is broader than the measures of man’s mind; and the heart of the Eternal is most wonderfully kind.
John of Kronstadt
A man who is wrathful with us is a sick man; we must apply a plaster to his heart – love; we must treat him kindly, speak to him gently, lovingly. And if there is not deeply-rooted malice against us within him, but only a temporary fit of anger, you will see how his heart, or his malice, will melt away through your kindness and love – how good will conquer evil. A Christian must always be kind, gracious, and wise in order to conquer evil by good.