Quotes About Gentleness

Rule a kingdom as if cooking a small fish," he once told me. "If you interfere with it too much while cooking, it will fall apart and be inedible.

Para qualquer um que experimentou brutalidade deliberada, a menor gentileza se torna para sempre um choque depois.

Be positive. Be true. Be kind.

Do the truth quietly without display.

It's all right to tell a wife the brutal truth, but you've got to go sort of easy with your lady-love.

Be gentle with othersFor many hurt though you see it notSome wounds are invisible yet deepKhoiSan Book of Wisdom

I've never hurt a single person in my whole life - never even wanted to hurt someone.

Harshness is conquered by gentleness, hatred by love, lethargy by zeal and darkness by light.

He held me against him gently, as if I was glass - as if I could shatter and fall away from him at any moment and leave him breathless and alone once more.

He reached for my hand, lifted it to his lips, and kissed my fingertips. "I love you.

We are to be strong in faith, and soft in love.

Jesus never mistreated anyone just because they mistreated Him. He confronted them in a spirit of gentleness and then continued to love them.

I am going to love you now, slow and sweet.

Through service to others, we develop a Christlike love and we experience joy. Service teaches patience and long-suffering as well as gentleness, goodness, and faith.

For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and to educate my soul entirely through gentleness and freedom.

She would not have hurt the old man's feelings for anything in the world.

I cannot open a flower with a sledgehammer—

You know, sometimes the world seems like a pretty mean place.' 'That's why animals are so soft and huggy.

Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.

Kind words produce their images on men's souls.

172] The way of God, who disposes all things with gentleness, is to instil religion into our minds with reasoned arguments and into our hearts with grace, but attempting to instil it into hearts and minds with force and threats is to instil not religion but terror. Terror rather than religion. (185)

172] The way of God, who disposes all things with gentleness, is to instil religion into our minds with reasoned arguments and into our hearts with grace, but attempting to instil it into hearts and minds with force and threats is to instil not religion but terror. Terror rather than religion.

Kind words do not cost much, yet they accomplish much.

He was a gentle and sensitive soul, and therefore had a short temper, which is why he went straight after everything with an ax...