Quotes about Softness

Something amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of power already within us. The world changes when we change. The world softens when we soften. The world loves us when we choose to love the world.

Nothing Is Stronger than Gentleness

Will he beg you for mercy or speak to you softly?

We cannot engage in plans and decisions that honor God until we prepare our hearts and are intentional about keeping them soft and responsive to his leading.

The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.

Water is the softest of all things, yet it is the most powerful. The ocean patiently allows all things to flow into it. It is always flexible. The Tao is not about grasping, but allowing, like water.

For contemplation he and valour formed; For softness she and sweet attractive grace, He for God only, she for God in him: His fair large front and eye sublime declared Absolute rule.

Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love.

I have to not harden my heart, because I want to stay open to feel things.

People are turning away from Christianity today not because it is too hard but because it is too soft.

I am a lover. And with my kids I am even softer. I realize with my son, I have to sometimes be tough, especially now when he's pushing boundaries. With my daughter, I can get a little stern with her and she pretty much will listen.

I've had only two regular women. I liked the small breakable thing inside each one. Whatever their personality, smarts, or looks, something soft lay inside each. Like a bird's breastbone, shaped and chosen to wish on. A little V, thinner than bone and lightly hinged, that I could break with a forefinger if I wanted to, but never did. Want to, I mean. Knowing it was there, hiding from me, was enough.