Gentle Quotes

Gentle Quote of the day

What matters is not your outward appearance. . . but your inner disposition. Cultivate inner beauty, the gentle gracious kind that God delights in.

There is a gentle thought that often springs to life in me, because it speaks of you.

We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free.

Be gentle with your words - you can't take them back.

Be careful to be gentle, lest in removing the rust, you break the whole instrument.

The highest ideal of cure is the speedy, gentle, and enduring restoration of health by the most trustworthy and least harmful way.

In the garden of gentle sanity, May you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness.

Always meet petulance with gentleness and perverseness with kindness. A gentle hand can lead even en elephant by a hair. Reply to thine enemy with gentleness.

And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.

Men are gentle, honest and straightforward. Women are convoluted, deceptive and dangerous.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could all be a little more gentle with each other, and a little more loving, have a little more empathy, and maybe we'd like each other a little bit more.

I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.

Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.

Be mild, and cleave to gentle things, thy glory and thy happiness be there.

The sickness of a family member, friend or neighbor is a call to Christians to demonstrate true compassion, that gentle and persevering sharing in another's pain.

It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

My god how gentle you are with me in spite of my great ignorance and how merciful You are with me in spite of my ugly deeds

When I cannot understand my Father's leading, And it seems to be but hard and cruel fate, Still I hear that gentle whisper ever pleading, God is working, God is faithful-Only wait.

Gentle day's flower - The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air.

Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.

Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again.

There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.

Life was never meant to be a struggle, just a gentle progression from one point to another, much like walking through a valley on a sunny day.

Be gentle, kind and beautiful, yet firm and strong, both mentally and physically.

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

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

May the passion to be all that God wants you to be sweep across your soul like a gentle breeze.

We are learning to work with intuition, which actually is Soul giving us gentle guidance to make our life better.

The definition of salesmanship is the gentle art of letting the customer have it your way.

Basically, I am a good, gentle person, but I am attracted to mean personalities.

The meek are those who quietly submit themselves to God, to His Word and to His rod, who follow His directions, and comply with His designs, and are gentle toward all men.

No masters or kings when the ritual begins [making love] There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin In the madness and soil of that sad earthly scene Only then I am human Only then I am clean

Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.

When gentle persuasion [of children] falls on deaf ears, we resort to ridicule and rebuke. Then we return to threats and punishment. This is the modus operandi of a mutual frustration society.

For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print.

I highly approve of Romney's decision to be kind and gentle to the retard.

It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a weak character, which easily changes into asperity.

To awaken chivalry we must return to femininity. We must stop doing the masculine things and become the gentle, tender, dependent women we were designed to be.

There is nothing quite so gentle, deep, and irrational as running--and nothing quite so savage, so wild.

What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.

God sometimes does His work with gentle drizzle, not storms.

The self-assured strength that grows from knowing that we already have what we need makes us gentle, because we are no longer desperate.

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

Be patient with yourself. Be gentle with yourself. Know that all things are working in your favor. If you take one step toward the light of Spirit, Spirit will take five steps on your behalf.

Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight; With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings.

Maybe love is like rain. Sometimes gentle, sometimes torrential, flooding, eroding, joyful, steady, filling the earth, collecting in underground springs. When it rains, when we love, life grows.

The cow is an exceptionally loving and gentle creature. She cries for days when her calf is taken from her. It is a pitiful sound, a pitiful sound.