Hardness Quotes

Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. - Bible

They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away? / He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so. - Bible

There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head. - Theodore Roosevelt

Then your hearts hardened after that, so that they were like rocks, rather worse in hardness; and surely there are some rocks from which streams burst forth, and surely there are some of them which split asunder so water issues out of them, and surely there are some of them which fall down for fear of Allah, and Allah is not at all heedless of what you do. - Quran

The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of heart manifest in the levity and cruelty with which they speak of others. - Edward Irving

Perhaps if there were more of that intense distress for souls that leads to tears, we should more frequently see the results we desire. Sometimes it may be that while we are complaining of the hardness of the hearts of those we are seeking to benefit, the hardness of our own hearts and our feeble apprehension of the solemn reality of eternal things may be the true cause of our want of success. - James Hudson Taylor

Peace and plenty breed cowards; hardness over hardiness is the mother. - William Shakespeare

One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths. - Friedrich Nietzsche