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Quotes about Tenderness

There was warmth and affection in his gaze. A tender caring that made her want to stretch toward him like a sunflower reaching toward the sun's heat.
- Denise Hunter
Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that the less erring could hardly know?
- George Eliot
Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.
- H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Chivalry in love has nothing to do with the sweetness of the appearance. It has everything to do with the tenderness of a heart determined to serve. You must not act under the impetus of charm, but out of a commitment to make someone's life the joy you want it to be.
- Ravi Zacharias
Whatever weakens your reasoning, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes away your relish for spiritual things; in short, if anything increases the authority and power of the flesh over the Spirit, then that to you becomes sin, however good it is in itself.
- Ravi Zacharias
taken care of." Sara gathered the child into her
- Wanda Brunstetter
Saints have to be tough as well as tender because saints are like Christ, and Christ was the toughest and the tenderest man who ever lived.
- Peter Kreeft
In the love of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness; he gives out again those beams of protecting fondness which were shed on him as he lay on his mother's knee.
- George Eliot
The absence of sentimentalism in Christ's relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching.
- Phillips Brooks
The loveliest materpiece of the heart of God is the love of a Mother.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that trancends all other affections of the heart
- Washington Irving
The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
- Henry Ward Beecher