Gentle Quotes - Page 17

• Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Lonely, Cheer, Loneliness

  Oliver Goldsmith (1841). “Goldsmith's miscellaneous works”, p.5

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• How kind is our Sacramental Jesus! He welcomes you at any hour of the day or night. His Love never knows rest. He is always most gentle towards you. When you visit Him, He forgets your sins and speaks only of His joy, His tenderness, and His Love. By the reception He gives to you, one would think He has need of you to make Him happy.

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Christian, Jesus, Night

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• Men are not gentle, friendly creatures wishing for love, who simply defend themselves if they are attacked, but ... a powerful measure of desire for aggression had to be reckoned as part of their instinctual endowment.

  Sigmund Freud

  Powerful, Men, Wish

  Sigmund Freud (1930). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.40, Courier Dover Publications

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• Is it not amazing that at a time when the rights of humanity are defined and understood with precision, in a country, above all others, fond of liberty-that in such an age and in such a country we find men professing a religion the most humane, mild, gentle and generous, adopting a principle as repugnant to humanity as it is inconsistent with the Bible, and destructive to liberty?

  Patrick Henry

  Country, Men, Rights

  Patrick Henry (2007). “Patrick Henry in his speeches and writings and in the words of his contemporaries”, Warwick House Publishing

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• I am compassionate. I allow my heart and imagination to embrace the difficulties and concerns of others. While maintaining my own balance, I find it within myself to extend sympathy, attention, and support. When they are grieved, I listen with openness and gentle strength. I offer loyalty, friendship, and human understanding. Without undermining or enabling, I aid and assist others to find their strength. I allow the healing power of the Universe to flow through me, soothing the hearts and feelings of those I encounter.

  Julia Cameron

  Loyalty, Heart, Healing

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• No matter what circumstances you sisters experience, your influence can be marvelously far-reaching. I believe some of you have a tendency to underestimate your profound capacity for blessing the lives of others. More often than not, it is not on the stage with some public pronouncement but in your example of righteousness and the countless gentle acts of love and kindness done so willingly, so often on a one-to-one basis.

  James E. Faust

  Kindness, Believe, Blessing

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• Celestial spirit that doth roll; The heart's sepulchral stone away, Be this our resurrection day, The singing Easter of the soul - O gentle Master of the Wise, Teach us to say: "I will arise."

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Wise, Easter, Heart

  Richard Le Gallienne (1913). “The lonely dancer: and other poems”

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• Learn to love the sunrise and sunset, the beating of rain on the roof and windows, and the gentle fall of snow on a winter day.

  Lowell L. Bennion

  Rain, Fall, Sunset

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• Let no man think to kill sin with few, easy, or gentle strokes. He who hath once smitten a serpent, if he follow not on his blow until it be slain, may repent that ever he began the quarrel. And so he who undertakes to deal with sin, and pursues it not constantly to the death.

  John Owen

  Blow, Men, Thinking

  John Owen (1994). “The Works of John Owen”

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• I think of these things as obstacles rather than opportunities, because if they were opportunities it means I actually took the business of doing them seriously. To take myself too seriously is the gentle kiss of death.

  Leon Redbone

  Mean, Kissing, Opportunity

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• ...one should be gentle with the ignorant, for they are the chosen of God.

  Mark Twain

  Ignorance, Ignorant, Should

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.196, Courier Corporation

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• Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.

  Washington Gladden

  Powerful, Quiet, Prevailing

  Washington Gladden (1883). “Things New and Old in Discourses of Christian Truth and Life”

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• I must learn to express the gentle vibration of things: the intrinsically rough texture. I must find this expression in drawings; in the way in which I draw my nudes here in Paris, more original and at the same time sensitively observed.

  Paula Modersohn-Becker

  Expression, Paris, Drawing

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• The shower of answers to your prayers will continue to your dying hour. Nor will it cease then. When you pass out from beneath the shower, your dear ones will step into it. Every prayer and every sigh which you have uttered for them and their future welfare will, in God's time, descend upon them as a gentle rain of answers to prayer.

  Ole Hallesby

  Change, Prayer, Rain

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• The gentle government that promises to hold your hand as you cross the street refuses to let go on the other side.

  Theodore J. Forstmann

  Letting Go, Government, Hands

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• The animals you eat are not those who devour others; you do not eat the carnivorous beasts, you take them as your pattern. You only hunger for the sweet and gentle creatures which harm no one, which follow you, serve you, and are devoured by you as the reward of their service.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Sweet, Philosophical, Animal

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2013). “Emile”, p.142, Courier Corporation

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• You cannot be too gentle, too kind. Shun even to appear harsh in your treatment of each other. Joy, radiant joy, streams from the face of one who gives and kindles joy in the heart of one who receives.

  Seraphim of Sarov

  Kindness, Heart, Giving

  "The Ladder of the Beatitudes". Book by Jim Forest, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1999.

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• I surrender my anxiety and my sense of urgency. I allow God to guide me in the pacing of my life. I open my heart to God's timing. I release my deadlines, agendas, and stridency to the gentle yet often swift pacing of God. As I open my heart to God's unfoldings, my heart attains peace. As I relax into God's timing, my heart contains comfort. As I allow God to set the tone and schedule of my days, I find myself in the right time and place, open and available to God's opportunities.

  Julia Cameron

  Life, God, Letting Go

  Julia Cameron (1997). “Heart Steps”, p.48, Penguin

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• Our bodies, speeches and minds need to be trained so that they will do anything we want. We can cry or laugh at once when we want to. Then it will be a natural response; we will cry when it is time to cry, and laugh when we should laugh. Do you understand? We can get angry when necessary; we can be gentle if we have to. We will completely become our own master. Then, no matter what we want to do, it will benefit the world. It is not difficult to attain this stage; all we need to do is to mediate.

  Ching Hai

  Spiritual, Inspiration, Laughing

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• For the joy of human love, brother, sister, parent, child,
  Friends on earth and friends above, for all gentle thoughts and mild;
  Christ, our God, to Thee we raise this our Sacrifice of grateful praise.

  Folliott Sandford Pierpoint

  Brother, Children, Grateful

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• Funny how gentle people get with you once you're dead.

  William Holden

  Death, People, Dying

  "Fictional character: Joe Gillis". "Sunset Boulevard", www.imdb.com. 1950.

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• To me, he was the grand master of wine. He was a forceful Russian and a gentle person. The greats of wine all over the world have great affection and admiration for him. What a beautiful man he was and what a privilege to have been touched by him.

  Margrit Mondavi

  Beautiful, Wine, Men

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• Adde, quod ingénues didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores, nec sinit esse fervos. To be instructed in the arts, softens the manners and makes men gentle.

  Ovid

  Art, Teaching, Men

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• There's nobody for me to attack in this matter even with soft and gentle ridicule-and I shouldn't ever think of using a grown up weapon in this kind of a nursery. Above all, I couldn't venture to attack the clergymen whom you mention, for I have their habits and live in the same glass house which they are occupying. I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Reading, Thinking

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• How can we give to the Lord? What shall we give to him? Every kind word to our own, every help given them, is as a gift to God, whose chief concern is the welfare of his children. Every gentle deed to our neighbor, every kindness to the poor and suffering, is a gift to the Lord, before whom all mankind are equal. Every conformity to the Lord's plan of salvation-and this is of first importance-is a direct gift to God, for thereby we fit ourselves more nearly for our divinely planned destiny.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Children, Kindness, Destiny

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