Quotes about Tenderness

Receive it for the gift it is! Pause, and let the beauty minister to you. I receive this into my soul. Too often we just notice and go on, like a pedestrian who steps over a hundred-dollar bill lying on the sidewalk. Stop and pick it up! In these moments you open yourself and receive the beauty, the gift, the grace—receive it into your being. Let it bring to you God's love, his tenderness, his rich goodness.

Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.

In the solitary farmhouse of the hills there was a great joy in life, much tenderness, and much hope.

Love is the Supreme Reality in the universe, and as such it contains all Truth. Infinite Tenderness enfolds and cherishes the universe; therefore is the wise man gentle and childlike and tender-hearted.

You win minds through your brilliance. You win hearts through your tenderness. You win souls through your benevolence.

Such affection and devotion, such mighty love and zeal are often far beyond me. Be merciful to me, O sweet, good, kind Jesus, and grant me, Your poor suppliant, sometimes at least to feel in Holy Communion a little of the tenderness of Your love, that my faith may grow stronger, that my hope in Your goodness may increase, and that charity, once perfectly kindled within me by tasting heavenly manna, may never fail.

Knitting her reddish-brown hairy stocking, with her head outlined absurdly by the gilt frame, the green shawl which she had tossed over the edge of the frame, and the authenticated masterpiece by Michael Angelo, Mrs. Ramsay smoothed out what had been harsh in her manner a moment before, raised his head, and kissed her little boy on the forehead. Let us find another picture to cut out, she said.

Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tries, and a touch that never hurts.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.

It is no small thing, when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.