Quotes About Hardness

God's will has been to redeem men and open the way of salvation to those who seek it, but men have shown themselves so unworthy that it is right for God to refuse to some, for their hardness of heart, what he grants to others by a mercy they have not earned... 'There is enough light for those who desire only to see, and enough darkness for those of a contrary disposition.

The way to have God near to you is to be humble and broken. As long as we are stubborn and hard and unbending, He will be far from us.

That heart alone is hard which does not shudder at itself for not feeling its hardness.

He was a dark man, not very old, and very hard in an English way that tries to be dignified and a member of a master race that would burn a black man alive or put a pregnant woman out the side of the road in the interests of stern duty.

Lust hath these three companions: the first, blindness of understanding; the second, hardness of heart; the third, want of grace.

Gems, in fact, are a species of mineral flowers; they are the blossoms of the dark, hard mine; and what they want in perfume, they make up in durability.

Impian ituSekeras batu. Sejelas kamu.

Almanlar ,kalplerinizi ta?la?t?r?n.Kalplerinizi her ?eye kar?? ,ama en çok da kad?nlar?n gözya?lar?na kar?? ta?la?t?r?n.Bir kad?n?n ruhu yoktur ve bu yüzden de ac? çekemez.Onun gözya?lar? sahtedir,aldatmacad?r.

this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.

He was one of those men ... who know in their hearts that for all their edgy, belligerent hardness they are just unhappy kids, emotional retards.

It's very nice to hear something very soft to your ear when you have something very hard to your eyes.

I don't think of myself as a hard man, but other people may think otherwise. You know you have obligations to do the best you can for people, for your job, for your shareholders... it all has to be balanced between the hardness and the softness.

Já reparaste como o mundo parece feito de pontas e arestas? Já chamei tua atenção para a escassez de contornos mansos nas coisas? Tudo é duro e fere.

Hardness scares off the daydreamers and the timid, leaving more opportunity for those like us who are willing to take the time to carefully work out the best path forward and then confidently take action.

The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an Empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of optimism, pride, hardness and cunning. But all these things will be forgiven him, indeed they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make of them the means to achieve great ends.

Possibly, it was an instinctive device of her spirit to relieve itself by the exhibition of these phantasmagoric forms from the cruel weight and hardness of the reality.

A horsehair sofa of uncompromising firmness sat next to two straight-backed, hard-seated chairs.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

The skull, followed by the temperament: the two hardest parts of the body.

Primero el cráneo, luego el temperamento: las dos partes más duras del cuerpo.

I haven't the courage, or perhaps the hardness, to withstand the tremendous pathos of this life. I love life's casual beauty- fear its awful strength.

She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood.

He opposed the hardness acquired during the last twenty years of his life. This state of mind fatigued him. He perceived with dismay that the sort of frightful calm which the injustice of his misfortune had conferred upon him was giving way within them.

In becoming dirt, she has been turned to stone. To touch her is to feel a chill.