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• The tears of Christ are the pity of God. The gentleness of Jesus is the long-suffering of God. The tenderness of Jesus is the love of God. He that hath seen me hath seen the Father.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Jesus, Father, Long

  Alexander Maclaren (1873). “Sermons Preached in Manchester: third series”, p.308

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• The whole of salvation history is the story of God looking for us: he offers us love and welcomes us with tenderness.

  Pope Francis

  Stories, Salvation, Offers

  Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.19, SPCK

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• Every American wants MORE & MORE of the world and why not, you only live once. But the mistake made in America is persons accumulate more & more dead matter, machinery, possessions & rugs & fact information at the expense of what really counts as more: feeling, good feeling, sex feeling, tenderness feeling, mutual feeling. You own twice as much rug if you're twice as aware of the rug.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Sex, Mistake, America

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• Let us pause before the Child of Bethlehem. Let us allow our hearts to be touched, let us allow ourselves to be warmed by the tenderness of God; we need his caress. God is full of love: to him be praise and glory forever! God is peace: let us ask him to help us to be peacemakers each day, in our life, in our families, in our cities and nations, in the whole world. Let us allow ourselves to be moved by God's goodness.

  Pope Francis

  Children, Heart, Cities

  "Urbi et Orbi (To the City and the World)". Pope Francis' Christmas Day message address from the Vatican, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 25, 2013.

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• You'll never experience the joy and tenderness of a lifelong love unless you fight for it.

  Chris Fabry

  Fighting, Joy, Lifelong

  Chris Fabry, Gary D. Chapman (2011). “A Marriage Carol”, p.69, Moody Publishers

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• It's a strange thing that every human being has a sort of dignity or wholeness in him, and out of that develops relationships to other human beings, tensions, misunderstandings, tenderness, coming in contact, touching and being touched, the cutting off of a contact and what happens then.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Cutting, Touching, Humanity

  Ingmar Bergman, Raphael Shargel (2007). “Ingmar Bergman: Interviews”, p.85, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The intelligence displayed by many dumb animals approaches so closely to human intelligence that it is a mystery. The animals see and hear and love and fear and suffer. They use their organs far more faithfully than many human beings use theirs. They manifest sympathy and tenderness toward their companions in suffering. Many animals show an affection for those who have charge of them, far superior to the affection shown by some of the human race. They form attachments for man which are not broken without great suffering to them.

  Ellen G. White

  Animal, Men, Race

  Ellen G. White (2013). “Ellen G. White Miscellaneous Periodical Articles - Book III of III”, p.305, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Whenever I allow anything but tenderness and compassion to dictate my response to life--be it self-righteous anger, moralizing, defensiveness, the pressing need to change others...I am alienated from my true self. My identity as Abba's child [a child of God] becomes ambiguous, tentative and confused

  Brennan Manning

  Children, Confused, Compassion

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• The Bible is not a book for the faint of heart -- it is a book full of all the greed and glory and violence and tenderness and sex and betrayal that befits mankind. It is not the collection of pretty little anecdotes mouthed by pious little church mice -- it does not so much nibble at our shoe leather as it cuts to the heart and splits the marrow from the bone. It does not give us answers fitted to our small-minded questions, but truth that goes beyond what we even know to ask.

  Rich Mullins

  Sex, Betrayal, Book

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• The main characteristic which is the proof of the indwelling Spirit is an amazing tenderness in personal dealing, and a blazing truthfulness with regard to God's Word.

  Oswald Chambers

  God, Christian, Religious

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Our Brilliant Heritage / If You Will Be Perfect / Disciples Indeed: The Inheritance of God's Transforming Mind & Heart”, p.282, Discovery House

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• In the face of so many wounds that hurt us and could lead to a hardness of heart, we are called to dive into the sea of prayer, which is the sea of the boundless love of God, in order to experience his tenderness

  Pope Francis

  Hurt, Prayer, Heart

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• The Sacraments are the manifestation of the Father’s tenderness and love towards each of us.

  Pope Francis

  Father, And Love, Manifestation

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• We are all sinners. But God heals us with an abundance of grace, mercy and tenderness

  Pope Francis

  Grace, Abundance, Mercy

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