Hardness Quotations

I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.

Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin.

My job is to bore you and let the hardness of your seat and the warmth of your robe prepare you for what is to come.

And if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves, and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.

When men do wrong, it is out of hardness; when women do wrong, it is out of weakness.

The hardness of the human heart makes no sense.

Hardness shatters; strength endures.

Hardness ever of hardness is mother.

Plenty and peace breed cowards; hardness ever of hardiness is mother.

There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head

The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread.