Max Lucado Quotes

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

It takes strength to be gentle and kind.

Your gentleness shall force More than your force move us to gentleness.

Love is more powerful than kicking ass.

We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.

A light, tender, sensitive touch is worth a ton of brawn.

To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

He refused to let hate make him hate.

One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness.

I am not a person who wants to hurt people.

I've never hurt a single person in my whole life - never even wanted to hurt someone.

It takes strength to be kind; it's not a weakness.

I don't want to be mean. I try not to be.

Kindness is more persuasive than force.

Love knows how to forgive. Love cannot hurt and cannot be violent.

We must not mistake kindness for weakness. Kindness isn't weak. Kindness is a certain type of strength.

I'm not a hateful person and don't condone any kind of violence against others.

I'll not hurt thee, says Uncle Toby, rising with the fly in his hand. Go, he says, opening the window to let it escape. Why should I hurt thee? This world is surely wide enough to hold both thee and me.

And there is not anything in the world stronger than tenderness.

If you would fall into any extreme, let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists rigor, and yields to softness.

The great mind knows the power of gentleness.

The power of gentleness is irresistible.