Heart Softening Quotes

Love makes all hard hearts gentle.

...once again we face a paradox, for it appears that softening your heart and gently tending its wounds will protect you from evil. Building a fortress and defending yourself behind it will only make you more vulnerable. Healing your own heart is the single most powerful thing you can do to change the world. Your own transformation will enable you to withdraw so completely from evil that you contribute to it by not one word, one thought, or one breath. This healing process is like recovering your soul.

Pray for your mate. Ask God to soften your heart and show you ways to be a better spouse.

The mother's love is not given to us to spoil us with indulgence, but to soften our hearts, that we may in turn soften others with kindness.

Softening what is rigid in our hearts.

Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart

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

I think my mom put it best. She said, 'Little girls soften their daddy's hearts.'

A little more grace, a motive made pure, a few truths tenderly told, a heart softened, a character subdued, a life consecrated, would restore the right action of the mental mechanism, and make manifest the movement of body and soul in accord with God.

It is in the relaxation of security; it is in the expansion of prosperity; it is in the hour of dilatation of the heart, and of its softening into festivity and pleasure, that the real character of men is discerned.

Weep all the artful tears you like. You shall never make my hard heart the softer.

It seems to me that physical sickness softens, just as moral sickness hardens, the heart.