Quotes About Christian Gentleness

#1. My family is everything. They love me unconditionally.

Sofia Carson

#2. I choose gentleness ... Nothing is won by force. I choose to be gentle. If I raise my voice may it be only in praise. If I clench my fist, may it be only in prayer. If I make a demand, may it be only of myself.

Max Lucado

#3. I should like very much to go to America. I have heard so much of the great industrial and economic development of that great land, and I wish to see things for myself.

Chiang Kai-shek

#4. What makes life 'worth living'? - The awareness that there is something for which one is ready to risk one's life

Friedrich Nietzsche

#5. Gentleness is strength under control. It is the ability to stay calm, no matter what happens.

Elizabeth George

#6. Deploring other people
their lack of perfection
had always been our sport.

Jonathan Franzen

#7. You try to draw everything into the net of your faith, father, but you can't steal all the virtues. Gentleness isn't Christian, self-sacrifice isn't Christian, charity isn't, remorse isn't. I expect the cavemen wept to see another's tears.

Graham Greene

#8. Only love can touch the heart.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. There have been times when I reread - or at least leafed through - something because I'd sent a copy to a friend, and what usually happened was that I noticed dozens and dozens of clumsy phrases I wished I could rewrite.

Peter Straub

#10. Always be humble and gentle with one another.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. Paul famously wrote, "The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control."5 How often do we measure Christian ideas and beliefs by these criteria?

Tony Jones

#12. Photography Cannot Record Abstract Ideas (Title of a 16x20 inch photograph depicting an index card on which that phrase is handwritten.)

Mel Bochner

#13. He freed one of his hands, released my wrist, only to gather it carefully into his other hand.

Stephenie Meyer

#14. Faith is the gentleness of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. I don't talk to reporters, because they're gonna write what they want to write, so let 'em write what they want to write.

Moses Malone

#16. But sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence. 1 Peter 3:15

Anonymous

#17. Dare to realize your dreams. Dare to dream your reality.

- Master Wei
Priest of the K'un Lun

Joseph J. Bailey

#18. Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.

Dallas Willard

#19. Priceless virtues are love, peace, joy, kindness, gentleness, goodness, long-suffering, patience faithfulness and self-control.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#20. I think trying too hard to be sexy is the worst thing in the world a woman can do.

Christian Bale

#21. Speak graciously to young men as you would to your brothers.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. A Christian reveals true humility by showing the gentleness of Christ, by being always ready to help others, by speaking kind words and performing unselfish acts, which elevate and ennoble the most sacred message that has come to our world.

Ellen G. White

#23. Gentleness is an active trait, describing the manner in which we should treat others. Meekness is a passive trait, describing the proper Christian response when others mistreat us.

Jerry Bridges

#24. While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.

Samuel Dash

#25. When I'm writing a novel, I'm usually just trying to write about things that are interesting to me.

Ruth Ozeki