Quotes About Gentle

See here, look at my hands. Say there's a cobweb spun between them. It's my ambition. And at its centre there's a spider, a color of a jewel. The spider is you. This is how I shall bear you--so gently, so carefully and without jar, you shall not know you are being taken.

Do you know how careful my love will make me? See here, look at my hands. Say there's a cobweb spun between them. It's my ambition. And at its centre there's a spider, a color of a jewel. The spider is you. This is how I shall bear you — so gently, so carefully and without jar, you shall not know you are being taken.

Jamison's An Unquiet Mind, which details her own struggle with bipolar disorder. A passage stood out for me: "The Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast you first must make it beautiful." The Chinese proverb puts things in the imperative. I prefer to phrase it as a gentle invitation: Let's make our beast beautiful.

Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light." —

Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls." —MATTHEW 11:28

Be truthful, gentle and fearless. The words floated back into her consciousness as though on fluttering muslin in front of an open window.

she might have been truthful and had tried to be gentle, but to be fearless was so much harder. The fearless thing to do was not to run away and leave Hugh behind: it was to face him, head on, and try to resurrect what they had — try to fix it, no matter how difficult and painful that was. Because he did love her. And she loved him. Heavenly had said you only need to be sure about one thing. This was it. They just needed to get the balance back again.

Be truthful, gentle and fearless, she told herself. That was the best anyone could be.

Perhaps it is easiest to define "meek" by saying Jesus was meek: "for I am gentle [same word as our beatitude] and humble31 in heart" (11:29). Moreover, in entering Jerusalem on a donkey, Jesus fulfilled an Old Testament expectation of the meek king (21:5).

The softest rain was falling, little more than a warm wet kiss from the sky

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. (Matt. 11:28–30)

Gentle he would be, denied he would not.

Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream Gently,-as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream!

Sweet Memory! wafted by thy gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail.

Sweet memory, wafted by the gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail, To view the fairy haunts of long-lost hours, Blest with far greener shades, far fresher flowers.

[Using humor to explore serious issues] disarms people. It's a way in. It's gentle, but at the same time it's subversive, and I like that duality.

She remained both girl and woman to the last day of her life. Under a grave and gentle exterior burned inextinguishable fires of sympathy, energy, devotion, enthusiasm, and absolutely limitless affection.

It's as mild as goose-milk.

I walked in, loosened his soul, and carried it gently away.

The words were on their way, and when they arrived, she would hold them in her hands like clouds, and she would ring them out like the rain.

His hair is like feathers.

The soft-spoken words fell off the side of the bed, emptying to the floor like powder.

The soft-spoken words fell off the side of the bed, emptying onto the floor like powder.

Quietly, he walked towards it with the matchbox in one hand, the candle in the other.