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

George Eliot
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  1. It was odd, (Tessa thought), what brought out tenderness in people. - Cassandra Clare

  2. Our identity rests in God's relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ. - Brennan Manning

  3. Live in the wisdom of accepted tenderness. Tenderness awakens within the security of knowing we are thoroughly and sincerely liked by someone... Scripture suggests that the essence of the divine nature is compassion and that the heart of God is defined by tenderness. - Brennan Manning

  4. Your actions will always be what the world sees, but people who choose to see through God's eyes will always have the compassion to understand why. - Shannon L. Alder

  5. Love has a certain element of tenderness, which alone pierces through the heart and binds us more intimately than any force in the universe ever can. - Jocelyn Soriano

More Quotes By George Eliot
  1. I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and...

  2. What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life--to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each...

  3. Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.' I am not aware of it. And to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl's life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her...

  4. Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

  5. Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

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