Quotes About Gentle

As we do our part (rejoice in the Lord, pursue a gentle spirit, pray about everything, and cling to gratitude), God does his part.

God is there in the kindness of a stranger. In the beauty of the sunset. In the gentle word and the hug just when you need it.

And now we who are writing women and strange monsters Still search our hearts to find the difficult answers, Still hope that we may learn to lay our hands More gently and more subtly on the burning sands.

Without waiting for Momma's thanks, he rode out of the yard, sure that things were as they should be and that he was a gentle squire, saving those deserving serfs from the laws of the land, which he condoned.

Father Dominic, however is a way better mediator than I am. Well, maybe not better. But different, certainly. See, he really feels that ghosts are best handled with gentle guidance and earnest advice-same as the living. I'm more in favor of a sort of get-to-the-point approach that tends to involve my fists.

Schuyler put a gentle hand on Abbadon's feathered extensions, feeling the majestic power underneath their silky weight. She had been frightened once, to see him in this light, but now that she saw his terrifying face, she found it beautiful.

At a quarter past four to the minute, there came a most genteel little tap-tappity.

I have lived in the pursuit of a vision, both personal and social. Personal: to care for what is noble, for what is beautiful, for what is gentle; to allow moments of insight to give wisdom at more mundane times. Social: to see in imagination the society that is to be created, where individuals grow freely, and where hate and greed and envy die because there is nothing to nourish them. These things I believe, and the world, for all its horrors, has left me unshaken.

The youth who is capable of becoming a philosopher will be distinguished among his fellows as just and gentle, fond of learning, possessed of a good memory and a naturally harmonious mind.

My Savior and Redeemer, help me to take Your yoke upon Me and learn from You, for You are gentle and humble in heart, and I will find rest for my soul (Matt. 11:29).

I was very quiet, very shy and docile.

There is a time to be gentle and a time to be fierce

Her father had thought it too much to throw in the faces of clients who needed a gentle introduction to the prospect of female representation.

as swift as wind, as gentle as forest, as fierce as fire, as unshakable as mountain

He said, Were he only like his sister—what a difference that would make! For there never was such a sweet and gentle lady! I hear her footsteps, as she goes about the world. I hear the swish-swish-swish of her silken gown and the jingle-jangle of the silver chain about her neck. Her smile is full of comfort and her eyes are kind and happy! How I long to see her! Who, sir? asked Paramore, puzzled. Why, his sister, John. His sister.

Strange stared thoughtfully at her for several seconds, so that Arabella mistakenly supposed he must be considering what she had just said. But when he spoke it was only to say in a tone of gentle reproof, My love, you are standing on my papers. He took her arm and moved her gently aside.

You couldn't hurt a fly." Actually I was pretty good at pinging flies right out of the air, but I tried to look appropriately harmless.

They kissed, but it was a gentle kiss and there was no urgency. They were tired and they were...healing. They had time. And time was the most beautiful word of all.

Gentle Mother, we were lost together in our silences. Our wordlessness was our mutual destruction.

Dusk falls. There is nothing gentle about the sky.

anxiety, new fathers were a thousand times worse. Anything that didn't go by the book threw them into a tizzy. Being informed that there was no book threw them into an even bigger tizzy. Allison was the hospital's expert on new fathers. She had a genuine talent for un-tizzy-ing them. "Hi," she said gently. "This is Allison Winslow. What can

And above it all, the gentle, eternal stars.

He pulled me gently to my feet, but the moment left my head spinning anyway.

It was a soft kiss, a gentle kiss, but it was also a promise. Of love, of respect, and of determination. Together they would change the world.