Be tough minded but tenderhearted.

I’m tough but my heart is very soft.

Make your hearts tender so that the grace the God of life abundantly grants us will drench you, and you will experience his salvation. Make your hearts tender so that you will not be indifferent to the pain or suffering of anyone.

Hard is that heart which beauty makes not soft.

Hard is that heart which beauty makes not soft.

Sometimes doing the gods’ bidding required a hardened heart.

You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.

There is little hope for us until we become toughminded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and downright ignorance. The shape of the world today does not permit us the luxury of softmindedness. A nation or a civilization that continues to produce softminded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan. But we must not stop with the cultivation of a tough mind. The gospel also demands a tender heart. ... What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of toughmindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hardheartedness?

But responsibility hardens the heart. It must.

Let us make our hearts harder than steel before the most flattering words.

If you want something really important to be done you must not merely satisfy the reason, you must move the heart also.

To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.

One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness.

One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness.