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As we come to grips with our own selfishness and stupidity, we make friends with the impostor and ac...

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Brennan ManningAbba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

Our identity rests in God's relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.

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Brennan ManningAbba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

Live in the wisdom of accepted tenderness. Tenderness awakens within the security of knowing we are ...

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Brennan ManningAbba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the str...

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[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neith...

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I choose gentleness... Nothing is won by force. I choose to be gentle. If I raise my voice may it be...

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Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.

You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of ...

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The process of breaking down fear was always my greatest challenge and it was made easier by the car...

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Muhammad YunusBanker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

I wish something would happen to me, something that would show me exactly how cruel and jealous and ...

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Her hand had a lot of strength gained through the process of gentleness.

If a violent person wishes to attack us, let us send him a gentle phrase as this will defuse his vio...

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Samael Aun WeorThe Initiatic Path In The Arcana Of Tarot And Kabbalah

Part of him wanted to weep... but his purpose was rigid within him. He felt he could not bend to gen...

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Stephen R. DonaldsonThe Chronicles of Thomas Covenant

Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be ...

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Theodosius DobzhanskyMankind Evolving: The Evolution of the Human Species

One tended to lose one’s bearings in the presence of willful and persistent acts of craziness, and t...

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In social life we hardly stop to consider how much of that daring spirit which gives mastery comes f...

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