Quotes about Gentle
He is the playfulness of creation, scandal and utter goodness, the generosity of the ocean and the ferocity of a thunderstorm; he is cunning as a snake and gentle as a whisper; the gladness of sunshine and the humility of a thirty-mile walk by foot on a dirt road.
— John Eldredge
Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.
— George Bernard Shaw
He has a gentle voice and a quiet manner, but behind his twinkling blue eyes there lurks a capacity for furious wrath and implacable resolution, the more dangerous because they are held in leash.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
— Charles Dickens
Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light." —
— Sarah Young
Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls." —MATTHEW 11:28
— Sarah Young
Perhaps it is easiest to define "meek" by saying Jesus was meek: "for I am gentle [same word as our beatitude] and humble31 in heart" (11:29). Moreover, in entering Jerusalem on a donkey, Jesus fulfilled an Old Testament expectation of the meek king (21:5).
— Scot McKnight
Pop was her ideal of how a man should be, brave, gentle, comic, never losing his temper, never bragging, never complaining except in a joke, tolerant, understanding, intelligent, drinking a little too much as a good man should, and, to her eyes, very handsome.
— Ernest Hemingway
How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly spread his claws, And welcome little fishes in With gently smiling jaws!
— Lewis Carroll
There was a slow, pleasant movement in the air, scarcely a wind, promising a cool, lovely day.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
A death-like sleep, A gentle wafting to immortal life.
— John Milton
Power gradually extirpates for the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
— Edmund Burke