Frederick William Robertson Quotes

I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can't do without them.

New kinds of heroics need to be celebrated - like love, thoughtfulness, forgiveness, diplomacy - or we're not going to get there.

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

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

All you have to be is kind. That's all you need. Once you've got that, it virtually rules out everything else.

I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.

Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.

A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.

This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person.

Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come.

To be social is to be forgiving.

There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.

The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

One forgives to the degree that one loves.

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

If your enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink

Your majesty ... give the assassins money and send them away somewhere to America, and write a manifesto starting with the words: 'but I say to you, love your enemies,'....from these words, like a flood, goodness and love would pour forth over Russia.

He refused to let hate make him hate.

I am very patient. I take pride in being patient with my husband, my children, my grandchildren.

My father's special gift? I think for one it was his gentleness. The way that he could offer a heart in any given situation.