Tender Quotes

705 quotes by 522 authors

Can you gather your vital breath and yet be tender like a newborn baby? — Laozi
You soothe my soul. You fill it with so tender a sentiment that it is sweet to live during the time that I see you. — Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse
The word suffering is full and whole and perfect as a pierced heart, sweet, rushing and tender ... Suffering is the joy of someone about… — Lydia Millet
I gazed upon the earth and saw that a body, in its tender faithlessness, had located it in the sky. A splendid scarf of blood,… — JoÃ« Bousquet
Don't boast about your hardheartedness or refusal to shed tears. Instead, pray that God will give you a tender heart which will sympathize with others. — Lee Roberson
Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things. — Mary MacLane
To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to… — Rebecca Solnit
God doth not govern the world only by his will as an absolute monarch, but by his wisdom and goodness as a tender father. It… — Stephen Charnock
Remember, thou canst be brought into no condition, be it ever so severe, where Love has not been before thee and where its tender lesson… — Mary Baker Eddy
A Light of utmost splendor glows on the eyes of my soul. Therein have I seen the inexpressible ordering of all things, and recognized God's… — Mechthild of Magdeburg
Keep me rather in this cage, and feed me sparingly, if you dare. Anything that brings me closer to illness and the edge of death… — Anne Desclos
God being infinite beauty, the soul united to Christ draws upon himself the admiring and tender gaze of the Angels, who, were they capable of… — Pope Pius X
How great, therefore, the wickedness of human nature is! How many girls there are who prevent conception and kill and expel tender fetuses, although procreation… — Martin Luther
Through Christ's satisfaction for sin, the very nature of afflictions changed with regard to believers. As death, which was, at first, the wages of sin,… — Unknown Author
My love for you tonight is so deep and tender that it seems to be outside myself as well. — Katherine Mansfield
If we think of the Holy Spirit only as an impersonal power or influence, then our thought will constantly be, how can I get hold… — Reuben Archer Torrey
Preserve your conscience always soft and sensitive. If but one sin force its way into that tender part of the soul and dwell there, the… — Isaac Watts
When life begins we are tender and weak When life ends we are stiff and rigid All things, including the grass and trees, are soft… — Laozi
They say that God lives very high! But if you look above the pines You cannot see our God. And why? And if you dig… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The essence of Christianity is the appeal to the life of Christ as a revelation of the nature of God and of God's agency in… — Alfred North Whitehead

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