I think you can soften people's hearts, even if they have a lot of hate. Music can do that if it's beautiful and honest. If I can do that - soften just one person's heart - I consider myself successful already.
The mother's love is not given to us to spoil us with indulgence, but to soften our hearts, that we may in turn soften others with kindness.
There's a longing in country music that can soften even the rockiest heart.
It's true for you to soften within, to let your heart open, to let your heart soften.
I think my mom put it best. She said, 'Little girls soften their daddy's hearts.'
Unfortunately, preachers who distort God's Word are all too common today. Sometimes this springs from a sincere desire to soften hard hearts, but hearts aren't changed by compromise.
If it's painful, you become willing not just to endure it but also to let it awaken your heart and soften you. You learn to embrace it.
Allow God to continually soften your heart so that it beats for what his heart beats for - people.
Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us.
Argument does not soften, but rather hardens, the obdurate heart.
People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner." I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.
If our theology does not quicken the conscience and soften the heart, it actually hardens both.
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
I will make love my greatest weapon and none on whom I call can defend against its force.
My reasoning they may counter; my speech they may distrust; my apparel they may disapprove; my face they may reject; and even my bargains may cause them suspicion; yet my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest clay.
I will greet this day with love in my heart.
No flattery, boy! an honest man cannot live by it; it is a little, sneaking art, which knaves use to cajole and soften fools withal.
Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose.