George Eliot Quotes

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

We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.

The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.

If I could do one thing over I'd have been nicer to my parents.

Jesus never mistreated anyone just because they mistreated Him. He confronted them in a spirit of gentleness and then continued to love them.

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

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

In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love.

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.

A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.

For the cruel man who would tear out the heart with which I live, I do not cultivate thistles. I cultivate a white rose.

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.

Age is full of regrets and most of them are about treating people unkindly.

I'm not just a fighter; I like to give love as well. I'm a lover, too.

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

When a friend is carried to his grave, we at once find excuses for every weakness, and palliation of every fault. We recollect a thousand endearments, which before glided off our minds without impression, a thousand favors unrepaid, a thousand duties unperformed; and wish, vainly wish, for his return, not so much that we may receive as that we may bestow happiness, and recompense that kindness which before we never understood.

For Mercy has a human heart Pity, a human face: And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.

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.

War would end if the dead could return.

The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness.

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.

If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.