Quotes About Gentle

I have found that because of our Father's desire for us to grow, He may give us gentle, almost imperceptible promptings that, if we are willing to accept without complaint, He will enlarge to become a very clear indication of His will.

Silence held him in its cold and gentle hands.

The polite applause of aspens.

I just heard Mother in the bathroom," she said, up on one elbow to smooth hair away from my forehead, a gentle, wonderful intimacy that took my breath away.

Oh, geyser, my geyser, Let us spew then, you and I, Upon this midnight dreary, while we ponder Whose woods are these? For we have not gone gentle into this good night, But have wandered lonely as clouds. We seek to know for whom the bell tolls, So I hope, springs eternal, That the time has come to talk of many things!

And that, after all, is how it ended. Quietly. In a world muffled by the gentle, forgiving hand of snow.

Welcome to your new home, Barry," the Gentle

It was as if my father had given me, by way of temperament, an impossibly wild, dark, and unbroken horse. It was a horse without a name, and a horse with no experience of a bit between its teeth. My mother taught me to gentle it; gave me the discipline and love to break it; and- as Alexander had known so intuitively with Bucephalus- she understood, and taught me, that the beast was best handled by turning it toward the sun.

Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.

There, you see? I didn't curse. Don't you agree that I handled the situation demurely?

As quiet as a lamb.

The grass stoops not, she treads on it so light.

His life was gentle, and the elementsSo mix'd in him that Nature might stand upAnd say to all the world, "This was a man!"

A very gentle beast, and of a good conscience.

O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my sense in forgetfulness?

If thou and nature can so gently part,The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch,Which hurts, and is desir'd.

I will aggravate my voice so that I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove; I will roar you as 'twere any nightingale.

My gentle Reader, I perceive / How patiently you've waited, / And now I fear that you expect / Some tale will be related. / O Reader! had you in your mind / Such stores as silent thought can bring, / O gentle Reader! you would find / A tale in every thing.

The most reliable and proper feeling is often a gentle sense that does not compel. It is like a voice but not a voice; it is a sense that prompts but does not compel. This most precious sense is the operating and anointing of the Holy Spirit within our spirit.

The waves of regret were gentle, but I know they would ripple on forever

The waves of regret were gentle, but I knew they would ripple on forever.

He is a very special person, you know." I did know, because he always made sure my milk was warm—but not too hot—before giving it to me.

Hate, my gentle lady, said Captain Anschutz, is only Love that has lost its way home in the dark.

Without that poise and balance and gentle humor and caring sense, nothing happens at all. It's just egotism and vanity and jealousy and possessiveness.