#gentleness

...with you, I find peace from pain - You are gentle and healing like the landscape—like rain... ↗

— John Geddes

#healing #love #peace #rain #love

In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning. ↗

— Roger Ascham

#better #bring #child #fear #fitter

What I know about you, Henry,” he said. “Is that you, as big as you are, know how to walk gently on this earth. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#dating #faith #gentleness #glass-girl #henry-whitmire

Gentleness is not apathy but is an aggressive expression of how we view people. We see people as so valuable that we deal with them in gentleness, fearing the slightest damage to one for whom Christ died. To be apathetic is to turn people over to mean and destructive elements, to truly love people cause for us to be aggressively gentle. ↗

— Gayle D. Erwin

#love

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

She held the book in her hands, feeling a sense of awe, and lightly ran a finger over its cover as if it contained sacred writings. ↗

— Nikki Rosen

#hope #kindness #mental-health #mental-health

Good directors can bring certain things out of you, with their intensity or gentleness or sensitivity or understanding. They can make an actor feel he can do no wrong. ↗

— Robert De Niro

#bring #certain #certain things #directors #feel

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness. ↗

— Han Suyin

#gentleness #nothing #stronger #than #world

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

— Leo Rosten

#cruel #expected #gentleness #i #learned