QUOTATION: Gentleness

As without faith it is impossible to please God, so without mildness it is impossible to please men and to govern them well.

--St. Bernard of Clairvaux

QUOTATION: False Mildness

Many appear full of mildness and sweetness as long as everything goes their own way; but the moment any contradiction or adversity arises, they are in a flame, and begin to rage like a burning mountain. Such people as these are like red-hot coals hidden under ashes. This is not the mildness which Our Lord undertook to teach us in order to make us like unto Himself.

--St. Bernard of Clairvaux

QUOTATION: Gentleness

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.

--St. Francis de Sales

QUOTATION: Gentleness

A most important means of acquiring interior mildness is to accustom ourselves to perform all our actions and to speak all our words whether important or not, quietly or gently. Multiply these acts as much as you can in the time of tranquillity, and so you will accustom your heart to gentleness.

--St. Francis de Sales