Quotes about Hardness
I will break down your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,
— Leviticus 26:19
In short, their malice is a veil to hinder them from observing the light of God; their obstinacy renders them harder than stones, so that they never suffer themselves to be subdued.
— John Calvin
But Jesus told them, “Moses wrote this commandment for you because of your hardness of heart.
— Mark 10:5
His chest is as hard as a rock, as hard as a lower millstone!
— Job 41:24
The harder the heart is, the more dead is it in sin, and the more unable to exert good affections and acts.
— Jonathan Edwards
Is my strength like that of stone, or my flesh made of bronze?
— Job 6:12
Jesus replied, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because of your hardness of heart; but it was not this way from the beginning.
— Matthew 19:8
If they had more grace to hear, they would receive more that the writer has to give. But they are becoming hard and dull, and in danger of throwing away the little they have.
— John Piper
In every broken marriage, there is at least one person whose heart is hard against God.
— Stormie Omartian
The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.
— CS Lewis
Their hearts are hard and callous, but I delight in Your law.
— Psalm 119:70
For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.’
— Matthew 13:15