Gentleness Quotes

I won’t desecrate beauty with cynicism anymore. I won’t confuse critical thinking with a critical spirit, and I will practice, painfully, over and over, patience and peace until my gentle answers turn away even my own wrath.

Well, there would be no sound if we shout on the background.

Treat me well and I will tell... Treat me bad and I feel sad. Treat me good, change my mood. Treat me sweet and call it quits!

The most effective form of creation is an act of cooperation, not force.

If a violent person wishes to attack us, let us send him a gentle phrase as this will defuse his violence.

When I look at the clues that indicate the nature of Jesus – born in a barn, questionable parents, spotty ancestry, common name, misdirected announcement, unattractive looks, reared in a bad neighborhood, owning nothing, surrounding himself with unattractive co-workers, and dying a shameful death – I find his whole approach unable to fit into the methods that automatically come to mind when I think about “winning the world.” His whole approach could easily be described as nonthreatening or nonmanipulative. He seemed to lead with weakness in each step of life. He had nothing in the world and everything in God and the Spirit.

Our identity rests in God's relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.

I choose gentleness... Nothing is won by force. I choose to be gentle. If I raise my voice may it be only in praise. If I clench my fist, may it be only in prayer. If I make a demand, may it be only of myself.

whatever you dobe gentle with yourself.you don’t just livein this worldor your homeor your skin.you also livein someone’s eyes.

There is some kind of elegant gentleness to Paris that I don't quite understand yet.

Love comforts, it is gentle, it is warm and you can feel it within your entire being.

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.

Truth is not fully explosive, but purely electric. You don't blow the world up with the truth; you shock it into motion.

Her hand had a lot of strength gained through the process of gentleness.

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

The weakest ones are the wickedest cruel When the strongest ones in gentleness rule!

I hope we can inaugurate a new humility in our use of religious language, which for me is the very proof that it is authentic.

And stay, my dearstay...forever, as my quiet song,in my lilac dawn.

The thing about learning how to fight is that— some of us are not born with that desire. They say some are born fighters; but they don't usually point out that others just aren't. Some of us are forced by life to take up arms and fight. Many of us are. The art lies in knowing when to wield those arms and when to put them down. I don't think it's a matter of pretending to be ideally unharmed by life and untouched by darkness; because that is hypocrisy. Rather, I think it is a matter of being true to your truth and learning when to fight and learning when to be soft. Hopefully, our soft moments in life will largely outweigh, outrank, and outrun our fighting.