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

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And yet, even while they baffled him, they aroused within his heart a feeling he had never known bef...

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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

[The] insistence on the absolutely indiscriminate nature of compassion within the Kingdom is the dom...

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

It was odd, (Tessa thought), what brought out tenderness in people.

As she stooped over him, her tears fell upon his forehead.The boy stirred, and smiled in his sleep, ...

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Beauty that steals the heart is often imperfect, suggests grace and kindness, and inspires tendernes...

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He had tenderness in his heart — ‘a soft place,’ as Nicholas Higgins called it; but he had some prid...

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We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

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

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I've fixed my feelings into durable wordswhen they could have been spent on tenderness

Tenderness is the repose of passion.

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Joseph JoubertThe Notebooks of Joseph Joubert

Underneath an artist's preoccupations with sex, society, religion, etc. (all the staple abstractions...

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[Letter to his wife, Natalia Sedova]In addition to the happiness of being a fighter for the cause of...

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