Quotes about Tenderness

God, in so speaking, lisps with us as nurses are wont to do with little children.

The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate.

Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever.

Sometimes love isn't fireworks, sometimes love just comes softly.

She pronounced the word married as if her voice caressed it. It seemed a rustling covert leading to enchanted glades.

Some poeople care too much....I think its called Love.

It's been my experience that those with the toughest shells have the softest hearts

God has decreed it so, that where tenderness of heart is, there mercy shall follow...

The eye being a tender part, and soonest hurt, how watchful is man by nature over that, that it take no hurt. So the heart, being a tender thing, let us preserve it by all watchfulness to keep blows from off it. It is a terrible thing to keep a wound of some great sin upon the conscience, for it makes a way for a new breach; because when the conscience once begins to be hardened with some great sin, then there is no stop, but we run on to commit sin with all greediness. 9.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Part of a moon was falling down the west, Dragging the whole sky with it to the hills. Its light poured softly in her lap. She saw And spread her apron to it. She put out her hand Among the harp-like morning-glory strings, Taut with the dew from garden bed to eaves, As if she played unheard the tenderness That wrought on him beside her in the night.

The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead.