Quotes about Heart
Here, again, you find the unsoundness of many professors who consider themselves good Christians; they are partial in the law, and take up with the cheap and easy duties of religion, but go not through with the work. It may be you find them exact in their words, punctual in their dealings, but then they do not exercise themselves unto godliness; and as for examining themselves and governing their hearts, to this they are strangers.
— Joseph Alleine
God finds nothing in man to turn His heart, but enough to turn his stomach.
— Joseph Alleine
Psalm 131 is a maintenance psalm. It is functional to the person of faith as pruning is functional to the gardener: it gets rid of that which looks good to those who don't know any better, and reduces the distance between our hearts and their roots in God.
— Eugene Peterson
The Christ in his own heart is weaker than the Christ in the word of his brother; his own heart is uncertain, his brother's is sure.
— Eugene Peterson
Just as water mirrors your face, so your face mirrors your heart.
— Eugene Peterson
Our God! GOD the one and only! Love GOD, your God with your whole heart: love him with all that's in you, love him with all you've got!
— Eugene Peterson
The gospel offers a different view of suffering: in suffering we enter the depths; we are at the heart of things; we are near to where Christ was on the cross.
— Eugene Peterson
Keep vigilant watch over your heart; that's where life starts.
— Eugene Peterson
It's your heart, not the dictionary, that gives meaning to your words.
— Eugene Peterson
But after he was pleased to reveal himself to me I did presently, like Abraham, run to Hagar. And after that he did let me see the atheism of my own heart, for which I begged of the Lord that it might not remain in my heart.
— Anne Hutchinson
Even the greatest musicians, they only represent themselves. You represent who you are and what your experiences are and what you have in your heart, and it's the same for me. I represent who I am and what I've been through and what I'm bringing to the music.
— Kamasi Washington
It's our hearts that tell us the truth of things, honey, and my heart has never betrayed me. Not ever.
— Beth Hoffman