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Updated: June 9, 2025
And when the Lord sends trouble to you, shall it harden your hearts or soften them? It depends on you, altogether on you, whether the Lord hardens your hearts by sending those sorrows, or whether He softens and turns them and brings them back to the only right place for them home to Him. But your trouble may only harden your heart all the more.
Instead of softening He hardens His tones if I dare use the word, where all is the result of love at any rate He keeps no terms; but as the danger increases His words become plainer and sterner, and approach as near as ever His words could do to bitterness and rebuke.
She shall not be excluded from fashion, certainly; but neither shall I suffer her to run the vulgar gauntlet of heartless dissipation, which too often hardens, debases, and corrupts. But a truce to this; the subject is painful to me; let us change it."
This rudimentary faith, which contents itself with the acceptance of the truth revealed, hardens into mere formalism, or liquefies into mere careless indifference as to the very truth that it professes to believe. There is nothing more impotent than creeds which lie dormant in our brains, and have no influence upon our lives.
"A little puzzling, certainly," said Sir Robert Dacre, who sat opposite. "We must ask Miss Drummond to explain." He did not speak in that disagreeable way that Mr Bagnall did; but Flora flushed up when she found three gentlemen looking at her, and asking her for an explanation. "I mean," she answered, "that one hardens one's heart by taking pleasure in anything which gives another creature pain.
Then there is your Parmesan, which idiots buy rancid in bottles, but which the wise grate daily for their use: you think it is hard from its birth? You are mistaken. It is the world that hardens the Parmesan. In its youth the Parmesan is very soft and easy, and is voraciously devoured.
To be for ourselves puts the whole world against us. To harden our heart hardens the heart of the universe. We need sympathy, and therefore we crave for friendship. Even the most perfect of the sons of men felt this need of intercourse of the heart. Christ, in one aspect the most self-contained of men, showed this human longing all through His life.
You have simply to keep still when He says 'Come unto Me' to keep your eyes fixed where they were, when He says, 'Look unto Me, and be ye saved, and all the rest will follow of itself. Notice, too, how the appeal of Christ's love hardens where it does not soften. That gentle voice drove the traitor nearer the verge over which he fell into a gulf of despair.
When it wants to strike down its prey, the feline hardens the muscles under its paw; the blow of its paw is then something like that of a hammer. A tiger has often been known to smash the skull of a buffalo with a single blow of its paw. Third advantage: the padded paws enable a feline to leap farther.
"I will not distrust thee, dear; thou didst not drink at my breast, but thou hast taken in too many lessons of the truth from my lips to despise us and yet thou art not of us; thou mayest possibly prove a Prince's son, and the world so hardens the heart and they who have been sorely pressed upon become suspicious " "For the love of God, cease, mother, or thou wilt break my heart!"
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