Quotes about Hardness
Their eyes were dark and hard and glowing, with no fear in them, no kindness and no guilt.
- Ayn Rand
If only my heart were stone.
- Cormac McCarthy
The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.
- CS Lewis
When men have hearts of stone and foreheads of brass—it is a sign that the devil has taken full possession of them.
- Thomas Watson
In the flesh rather than the work of the Spirit, it is easy to say we are showing holiness and it only be egotistic pride and hardness.
- Francis Schaeffer
this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.
- Herman Melville
there are times when hearts grow so hard and ears so dull that God turns us over to endure the consequences of our choices.
- Max Lucado
In every broken marriage, there is at least one person whose heart is hard against God.
- Stormie Omartian
The way to have God near to you is to be humble and broken. As long as we are stubborn and hard and unbending, He will be far from us.
- KP Yohannan
Lust hath these three companions: the first, blindness of understanding; the second, hardness of heart; the third, want of grace.
- St. Basil
Was it hardness, was it selfishness, that she should ask me to risk my life for her own glorification? Such thoughts may come to middle age; but never to ardent three-and-twenty in the fever of his first love.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
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