Gentleness Quotes - Page 4

• With regard to manner, be careful to speak in a soft, tender, kind and loving way. Even when you have occasion to rebuke, be careful to do it with manifest kindness. The effect will be incalculably better.

  Hosea Ballou

  Kindness, Way, Speak

  "Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou. By his youngest son, Maturin M. Ballou". Book by Maturin Murray Ballou, 1854.

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• Gentleness succeeds better than violence.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Violence, Succeed

  "Fables", VI, 3, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 311, 1922.

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• Gentleness is the outgrowth of benignity.

  Hannah More

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• This hard place in which you perhaps find yourself is the very place in which God is giving you opportunity to look only to Him, to spend time in prayer, and to learn long-suffering, gentleness, meekness - in short, to learn the depths of the love that Christ Himself has poured out on all of us.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Prayer, Opportunity, Long

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• Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.

  Pierre Corneille

  Force

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• Gentleness! more powerful than Hercules.

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  Powerful

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• I want to make wines that harmonize with food - wines that almost hug your tongue with gentleness.

  Robert Mondavi

  Wine, Hug, Want

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• That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something.

  Meredith Monk

  Honesty, Voice, Never Quit

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• A man never so beautifully shows his own strength as when he respects a woman's softness.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Men, Shows, Softness

  Douglas William Jerrold, Blanchard Jerrold (1859). “Specimens of Douglas Jerrold's wit: together with selections, chiefly from his contributions to journals, intended to illustrate his opinions”, p.43

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• To pray is to change. This is a great grace. How good of God to provide a path whereby our lives can be taken over by love and joy and peace and patience and kindness and goodness and faithfulness and gentleness and self-control.

  Richard J. Foster

  Kindness, Taken, Self

  Richard J. Foster (2009). “Prayer - 10th Anniversary Edition: Finding the Heart's True Home”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• A woman's strength is most potent when robed in gentleness.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

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• Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but let them feel at the same time the steadiness of your just resentment for there is a great difference between bearing malice, which is always ungenerous, and a resolute self-defense which is ever prudent and justifiable.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Time, Enemy, Resentment

  "The Modern Chesterfield".

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• Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.

  Pierre Corneille

  Effects, Severity

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Héraclius, I, 1, 1922.

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• Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect.

  Honore de Balzac

  Simplicity, Inspire, Disrespect

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• There is nothing in the world stronger than gentleness.

  Han Suyin

  Stronger, World

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• There is a gentleness in Michigan that you just can't replicate.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Michigan, Replicate

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• The golden beams of truth and the silken cords of love, twisted together, will draw men on with a sweet violence, whether they will or not.

  Ralph Cudworth

  Sweet, Men, Together

  Ralph Cudworth (1843). “A Sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, at Westminster, March 31. 1647”, p.34

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• We must be gentle now we are gentlemen.

  William Shakespeare

  Gentleman, Gentle

  William Shakespeare (1815). “A Select British Theatre: Containing All the Plays Formerly Adapted to the Stage”

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• The swallow is not ensnared by men because of its gentle nature.
  [Lat., At caret insidiis hominum, quia mitis, hirundo.]

  Ovid

  Men, Gentle

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• Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.

  Meir Kahane

  Easter, Middle East, Goodness

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• Never, never is it possible to reach someone if you become angry or bitter only love and gentleness can do it. Maybe not this time but maybe the next or the hundredth time.

  Cesar Chavez

  Next, Bitter, Only Love

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• My yoke is easy, and my burden light.

  Saint Boniface

  Bible, Jesus, Weary Heart

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• Being empowered includes developing the powerful qualities that lead human beings to cultivate wellness and healing. And those are the same qualities that enhance all relationships on earth and reduce stress (which seems to be the largest precursor to disease)-gentle ness, calmness, patience, humility, compassion, and gratitude.

  Bryan Kest

  Relationship, Patience, Gratitude

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• As we come to grips with our own selfishness and stupidity, we make friends with the impostor and accept that we are impoverished and broken and realize that, if we were not, we would be God. The art of gentleness toward ourselves leads to being gentle with others -- and is a natural prerequisite for our presence to God in prayer.

  Brennan Manning

  Art, Prayer, Broken

  Brennan Manning (2015). “Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging”, p.26, NavPress

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• We have seen that the Son of God created the world for this very end, to communicate Himself in an image of His own excellency. ... When we behold the light and brightness of the sun, the golden edges of an evening cloud, or the beauteous (rain)bow, we behold the adumbrations of His glory and goodness; and in the blue sky, of his mildness and gentleness.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Rain, Son, Sky

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