Tenderness Quotes

There never was any heart truly great and generous that was not also tender and compassionate.

— South

When death, the great Reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

— George Eliot

While we would have our young sisters imitate, as they cannot fail to love, the conduct of Ruth, will not their elders do well to ponder on, and imitate the tenderness of Naomi? Would we have our daughters Ruths, we must be Naomis.

— Grace Aguilar

  ​ Speak the truth, by all means! Speak it so that no man can mistake the utterance. Be bold and fearless in your rebuke of error, and in your keener rebuke of wrong-doing; all Christ's witnesses are bound to be thus "valiant for the truth;" but be human and loving and gentle and brotherly the while. If you must deliver the Redeemer's testimony, deliver it with the Redeemer's tears. Look, straight-eyed and kindly, upon the vilest, as a man ought to look upon a man, both royal, although the one is wearing, and the other has pawned his crown.

— Wm. M. Punshon

I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.

— Edward Payson