Gentle Quotes

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The meek are those who quietly submit themselves to God, to His Word and to His rod, who follow His directions, and comply with His… — Matthew Henry
The Past Is Gone, And Cannot Harm You Any More & While The Future Is Fast Coming For You, It Always Flinches First. And Settles… — Cecil Palmer
The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road. — Michel de Montaigne
O Reader! had you in your mind Such stores as silent thought can bring, O gentle Reader! you would find A tale in everything. — William Wordsworth
I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor. — Anjelica Huston
The soul is kissed by God in its innermost regions. With interior yearning, grace and blessing are bestowed. It is a yearning to take on… — Hildegard of Bingen
Listen to God's speech in his wondrous, terrible, gentle, loving, all-embracing silence. — Catherine Doherty
This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For Freedom only deals the deadly blow; Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade, For gentle… — John Quincy Adams
The way of being with another person which is termed empathic...means temporarily living in their life, moving abut in it delicately without making judgment... to… — Carl Rogers
She sent him a warm and gentle wind, and Lord Odysseus was happy as he set his sails to catch the breeze. He sat beside… — Homer
Lo, the most excellent sun so calm and haughty, The violet and purple morn with just-felt breezes, The gentle soft-born measureless light, The miracle spreading… — Walt Whitman
[Using humor to explore serious issues] disarms people. It's a way in. It's gentle, but at the same time it's subversive, and I like that… — Lisa Loomer
If I marry: He must be so tall that when he is on his knees, as one has said he reaches all the way to… — Ruth Graham
It seems to me that the best way will be the one that is most gentle and forbearing, which is more in conformity with the… — Vincent de Paul
Use gentle methods to get whatever good you can from priests and monks who are slaves, as well as from merchants and captives. Resort to… — Vincent de Paul
Our souls, shamewounded by our sins, cling to us yet more, a woman to her lover clinging, the more the more. She trusts me, her… — James Joyce
If you would understand this secret, you must first understand the distinction between training an animal and educating one. Trained animals are relatively easy to… — J. Boone
We only have one dog now. Calamity Jane had to be put down. She was very old, and her medicine no longer controlled her seizures.… — Gene Wolfe
For hours she had lain in a kind of gentle torpor, not unlike that sweet lassitude which masters one in the hush of a midsummer… — Edith Wharton
Love is a great thing...which alone maketh every burden light.. Love is watchful, and while sleeping, still keeps watch; though fatigued, it is not weary;… — Thomas a Kempis

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