Hardened Quotes

• Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Wisdom, Eye

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• At birth, we are like cartilage - soft, flexible tissue. By the same natural process by which cartilage becomes hard bone, the soft, tender heart of an innocent child can become hardened by the circumstances into which she is born.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Children, Heart, Tissues

  "How to Get Through What You’re Going Through: Who’s Your Daddy?" by Iyanla Vanzant, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 24, 2010.

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• It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it.

  Anton Chekhov

  Math, Punishment, Coarse

  "A Journey to Sakhalin". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1895.

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• Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Genius, Way, Manners

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.380

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• Christians well know that the much-decorated statue of the Church, as it now stands, is not of pure chiseled marble, but of clay, cemented together by blood and tears and hardened in the fires of hatred and persecution.

  Virchand Gandhi

  Christian, Fire, Blood

  "Christian Missions: A Triangular Debate, Before the Nineteenth Century Club of New York". The Monist Magazine, Volume 5, 1895.

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• I like Scottish people because they feel very true. They're always level and straight. They get a reputation for being hardened because of it, but I find them to be scrupulously honest people.

  Rupert Friend

  People, Levels, Reputation

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Charles Dickens (2009). “Our Mutual Friend”, p.455, Cosimo, Inc.

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• As a child, he had hardened his heart and learned to take their punches. He had learned to spit back and take down anyone who cast a jaundiced eye or who made a comment about either him, his mother, or his sister. He’d told himself that he didn’t need anyone’s love or caring. And so he had learned to live like a feral animal, always ready to strike out when someone tried to touch him.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mother, Children, Eye

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Night Pleasures/Night Embrace”, p.648, Macmillan

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• As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it.

  Linda Vester

  Survival, Stories, Sometimes

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• Broadway is a main artery of New York life - the hardened artery.

  Walter Winchell

  New York, Broadway, Arteries

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• People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Pain, People, Want

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• No man will say, "There is no God" 'till he is so hardened in sin that it has become his interest that there should be none to call him to account.

  Matthew Henry

  Atheist, Men, Accountability

  Matthew Henry (1839). “An Exposition of the Old and New Testament: Wherein Each Chapter is Summed Up in Its Contents: Job-Solomon's Song. 1839”, p.284

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• If the heart becomes hardened, the eye becomes dry.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Eye, Heart, Dry

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• When it comes to accepting emotional support or affection, I'm a little guarded and hardened to that.

  Patricia Heaton

  Emotional, Support, Littles

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• Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Way, Manners

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.380

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• I was very careful to send Mr. Roosevelt every few days a statement of our casualties. I tried to keep before him all the time the casualty results because you get hardened to these things and you have to be very careful to keep them always in the forefront of your mind.

  George C. Marshall

  Mind, Casualties, Results

  "George C. Marshall: Global Commander". Forrest C. Pogue, 1968.

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• A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.

  Edmund Burke

  America, People, Bones

  Edmund Burke, James BURKE (Barrister-at-Law.) (1854). “The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke”, p.82

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• Likewise today, some Christians are content to merely exist until they die. They don't want to risk anything, to believe God, to grow or mature. They refuse to believe his Word, and have become hardened in their unbelief. Now they're living just to die.

  David Wilkerson

  Christian, Believe, Godly

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• The hardened mass of liquid stones had much stronger qualities than those which had simply torn. The skin remained a recognisable part of the molten stone.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Artist, Stronger, Skins

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• She's letting out her feelings. The scary thing is not being able to do that. When your feelings build up and harden and die inside, then you're in big trouble.

  Haruki Murakami

  Expression, Scary, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Nov 15, 2015

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• The glassblower knows: while in the heat of beginning, any shape is possible. Once hardened, the only way to change is to break.

  Mark Nepo

  Shapes, Way, Heat

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.60, Conari Press

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• No place is too common. No person is too hardened. No distance is too far. There's no person God cannot reach. There's no limit to his love.

  Max Lucado

  Distance, His Love, Limits

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Wisdom, Passion, Bridges

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• Loving a holy God is beyond our moral power. The only kind of God we can love by our sinful nature is an unholy god, an idol made by our own hands. Unless we are born of the Spirit of God, unless God sheds His holy love in our hearts, unless He stoops in His grace to change our hearts, we will not love Him... To love a holy God requires grace, grace strong enough to pierce our hardened hearts and awaken our moribund souls.

  R. C. Sproul

  Strong, Heart, Hands

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• All that God had to do to harden Pharaoh's heart, or to harden your heart, is to withhold His own grace.

  R. C. Sproul

  Heart, Grace, Pharaohs

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