Gentleness Quotes
Gentleness Quote of the day
I have become so great as I am because I have won men's hearts by gentleness and kindliness.
Lord, grant that anger or other bitterness does not reign over us, but that your grace, genuine kindness, loyalty, and every kind of friendliness, generosity, and gentleness may reign in us. Amen
If you aim for only wealth, beauty, fame, & power, you aim too low. Humility, gentleness, gratitude, & service is aiming high.
Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day.
It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.
Always meet petulance with gentleness and perverseness with kindness. A gentle hand can lead even en elephant by a hair. Reply to thine enemy with gentleness.
We cannot change the way the world is, but by opening ourselves to the world as it is, we may find that gentleness, decency and bravery are available - not only to us, but to all human beings.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Our identity rests in God's relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.
When we have to reply to anyone who has insulted us, we should be careful to do it always with gentleness. A soft answer extinguishes the fire of wrath.
When He gives, He shows you His Kindness; when He deprives, He shows you His power. And in all that, He is making Himself known to you and coming to you with His gentleness.
. . . gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something.
It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a weak character, which easily changes into asperity.
If you manipulate, coerce, and bully your children, you will have no power at all. If you lead with humility, gentleness, and by example, you will need no power at all.
By learning to open your heart and body while embracing and trusting all energies, from rough ravishment to sublime gentleness, you can open to be lived by the mystery that lives the entire universe.
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.
Be kind to each other. It is better to commit faults with gentleness than to work miracles with unkindness.
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.
There is no way to overstate the magnitude of the collective spiritual transformation that will occur when we shift from food of violent oppression to food of gentleness and compassion.
There's nothing more important on our spiritual path than developing gentleness to oneself.
With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit.
I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.
The extraordinary gentleness of the adult male with his young dispels all the King Kong mythology.
Schisms do not originate in a love of truth, which is a source of courtesy and gentleness, but rather in an inordinate desire for supremacy.
Being aggressive, you can accomplish some things, but with gentleness, you can accomplish all things.
Never, never is it possible to reach someone if you become angry or bitter only love and gentleness can do it. Maybe not this time but maybe the next or the hundredth time.
Surely we ought to show them (animals) great kindness and gentleness for many reasons, but, above all, because they are of the same origin as ourselves.
The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding.
He who can preserve gentleness amid pains, and peace amid worry multitude of affairs, is almost perfect.
If you would fall into any extreme, let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists rigor, and yields to softness.
We have not touched the stars, nor are we forgiven, which brings us back to the hero’s shoulders and the gentleness that comes, not from the absence of violence, but despite the abundance of it.
Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayest manage to guide an elephant by a hair.
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.
It is in deep solitude and silence that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brother and sister.
I contend that non-violent acts exert pressure far more effective than violent acts, for the pressure comes from goodwill and gentleness.
Traces of nobility, gentleness, and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do those characteristics which are ugly.
A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.