#gentleness

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. ↗

— Gayle D. Erwin

#humility #death

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

— Ellen J. Barrier

#gentleness #love #warmth #love

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

— Brennan Manning

#christianity #gentleness #god #identity #tenderness

These hands," he squeezed them both on my face to make his point, "will never touch you without being gentle. Unless that's not what you want, of course." His eyebrow lifted waiting for me to balk, but I just waited. "These arms will never hold you back, but I'll hold you as tight as you'll let me. I can't wait for you to be all mine. You belong to me in every way, Maggie. Mine." I nodded in his hands. He leaned closer and whispered, "Say it." I didn't wait a beat. "I belong to you." And he belonged to me. He grinned. "You're daggum right you do. ↗

— Shelly Crane

#gentleness #love #love

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength. ↗

— Saint Francis de Sales

#gentle #gentleness #nothing #real #real strength

Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner. ↗

— Hugh Blair

#gentleness #manner #offensive #our #whatever

Yet, it had been Dimitri’s gentleness and thoughtfulness mixed with that deadliness that made him so wonderful. The same hands that wielded stakes with such precision would carefully brush the hair out of my face. The eyes that could astutely spot any danger in the area would regard me wonderingly and worshipfully, like I was the most beautiful and amazing woman in the world. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#dimitri #dimitri-belikov #gentleness #love #rose

Now, with regard to the people who have done things we call "terrorism," I'm confident they have been expressing their pain in many different ways for thirty years or more. Instead of our empathically receiving it when they expressed it in much gentler ways -- they were trying to tell us how hurt they felt that some of their most sacred needs were not being respected by the way we were trying to meet our economic and military needs -- they got progressively more agitated. Finally, they got so agitated that it took horrible form. ↗

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

#empathy #gentleness #nonviolence #peace #terrorism

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

#cruel #expected #gentleness #only #strong

I want to make wines that harmonize with food - wines that almost hug your tongue with gentleness. ↗

— Robert Mondavi

#food #gentleness #harmonize #hug #i