Gentleness Quotes - Page 5

• Joy is love exalted; peace is love in response; long-suffering is love enduring; gentleness is love in society; goodness is love in action; faith is love on the battlefield; meekness is love in tough situations; and temperance is love in training.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Love You, Long, Joy

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• Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Inspirational, Insperational, Cracks

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• The sweetness and generosity and politeness and gentleness and humanity of the French had shown me how lovely life can be if one takes time to be friendly.

  Julia Child

  Generosity, Humanity, Lovely

  Julia Child, Alex Prud'homme (2006). “My Life in France”, p.66, Anchor

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• You cannot be too gentle, too kind. Shun even to appear harsh in your treatment of each other. Joy, radiant joy, streams from the face of one who gives and kindles joy in the heart of one who receives.

  Seraphim of Sarov

  Kindness, Heart, Giving

  "The Ladder of the Beatitudes". Book by Jim Forest, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1999.

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• There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Desire, Doe, Recognition

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• I contend that non-violent acts exert pressure far more effective than violent acts, for the pressure comes from goodwill and gentleness.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, War, Violent Acts

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• It is only through my daughter that I have come to realise that a life without femininity – devoid of mystery, emotion, gentleness and the unerring power of a woman’s love – is no life at all.

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke

  Daughter, Love Is, Emotion

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• We may talk of the best means of doing good; but, after all, the greatest difficulty lies in doing it in a proper spirit. Speak- the truth in love, "in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves" - with the meekness and gentleness of Christ.

  Asahel Nettleton

  Lying, Mean, May

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 129, 1895.

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• I believe that order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure human sympathy is more valuable than ideology.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Believe, Ignorance, Carpe Diem

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• The fruit of solitude is increased sensitivity and compassion for others. There comes a new freedom to be with people. There is new attentiveness to their needs, new responsiveness to their hurts. Thomas Merton observes, 'It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am the more affection I have for them.... Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.

  Richard J. Foster

  Hurt, Brother, Compassion

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• If zeal had been appropriate for putting humanity right, why did God the Word clothe himself in the body, using gentleness and humility in order to bring the world back to his Father?

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Father, Humility, Order

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• I'm making a list I'm making a list of things I must say For politeness, And goodness and kindness and gentleness Sweetness and rightness: Hello Pardon me How are you? Excuse me Bless you May I? Thank you Goodbye If you know some that I've forgot, Please stick them in you eye!

  Shel Silverstein

  Goodbye, Kindness, Eye

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• Study hard. Understand not only the questions, but the questioner. Know how best to articulate the answers, but do it with humility, because ultimately the answer is in a person, the person of Christ, not in an argument. So, do your work and know how to present the answer, but do it with gentleness and meekness.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Humility, Answers, Study

  Source: www.apologetics315.com

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• The tears of Christ are the pity of God. The gentleness of Jesus is the long-suffering of God. The tenderness of Jesus is the love of God. He that hath seen me hath seen the Father.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Jesus, Father, Long

  Alexander Maclaren (1873). “Sermons Preached in Manchester: third series”, p.308

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• Gentleness is an active trait, describing the manner in which we should treat others. Meekness is a passive trait, describing the proper Christian response when others mistreat us.

  Jerry Bridges

  Christian, Should, Treats

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Practice of Godliness”, p.181, NavPress

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• I hate and fear 'science' because of my conviction that, for long to come if not for ever, it will be the remorseless enemy of mankind. I see it destroying all simplicity and gentleness of life, all the beauty of the world; I see it restoring barbarism under a mask of civilization; I see it darkening men's minds and hardening their hearts.

  George Gissing

  Hate, Heart, Men

  George Gissing (2008). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.253, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Don't underestimate kindess, gentleness and patience in a man.

  Sumiko Tan

  Love, Dream, Men

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• Civility does not ...mean the mere outward gentleness of speech cultivated for the occasion, but an inborn gentleness and desire to do the opponent good.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Justice, Desire

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.106, Courier Corporation

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• Nothing is stronger than gentleness.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Helping Others, Stronger, Helping

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• But in the present day men cast off gentleness, and are all for being bold; they spurn frugality, and retain only extravagance; they discard humility, and aim only at being first. Therefore they shall surely perish.

  Laozi

  Humility, Men, Extravagance

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• Courage is by no means incompatible with tenderness. On the contrary, gentleness and tenderness have been found to characterize the men, no less than the women, who have done the most courageous deeds.

  Samuel Smiles

  Mean, Men, Done

  Samuel Smiles (1910). “Character. Repr”

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• How much better the world would be if we all gave gifts of understanding, and compassion, of service, and friendship, of kindness and gentleness.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Kindness, Compassion, Understanding

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• Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Paramount, Repose

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• An appearance of delicacy is inseparable from sweetness and gentleness of character.

  Lydia Sigourney

  Character, Delicacy, Appearance

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• Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Kindness, Empathy, Gender

  "A Rape a Minute, a Thousand Corpses a Year" by Rebecca Solnit, www.motherjones.com. January 25, 2013.

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