Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
To cultivate equanimity we practice catching ourselves when we feel attraction or aversion, before it hardens into grasping or negativity.
In France, even heresy rapidly hardens into dogma.
There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds.
Nothing so hardens the heart of man as a barren familiarity with sacred things.
It may perhaps be said that it signifies nothing to a man what is done to him after he is dead; but it signifies much to the living; it either tortures their feelings or hardens their hearts.
Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
Affliction hardens those whom it does not soften.
He who has always spared himself much will in the end become sickly of so much consideration. Praised be what hardens!
The same sun that melts the butter hardens the clay.
Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
In money matters no relationship counts; money hardens all hearts.
What fire does not destroy, it hardens
How surely a knowledge of the world hardens the heart!
Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical
Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children.
Death is the stone into which our oblivion hardens.
Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.
Prayer is self-discipline. The effort to realize the presence and power of God stretches the sinews of the soul and hardens its muscles. To pray is to grow in grace. To tarry in the presence of the King leads to new loyalty and devotion on the part of the faithful subjects. Christian character grows in the secret-place of prayer.
Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.
