Quotes about Heart
O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.
— St. Augustine
In comparison with this big world, the human heart is only a small thing. Though the world is so large, it is utterly unable to satisfy this tiny heart. Our ever-growing soul and its capacities can be satisfied only in the infinite God.
— Sadhu Sundar Singh
Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.
— St. Augustine
Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
— St. Augustine
Love knows nothing of order.
— Saint Jerome
Where is the person whose heart is so passionately in love with the promised glory of heaven that he feels like an exile and a sojourner on the earth? Where
— Sam Storms
this is what we hope for, the objective reality of our future inheritance, not the feeling of hope or expectation in our hearts. So
— Sam Storms
May God so work in our hearts that our faith is affectionate and our passion is principled.
— Sam Storms
There's something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
— Samuel Beckett
Your heart is not the compass that God steers by.
— Samuel Rutherford
M]ake much of the written word, and pray to God to copy his Bible in your conscience, and write a new book of his doctrine in your hearts.
— Samuel Rutherford
I rather wish Him my heart than give Him it; except He take it and put Himself in possession of it (for I hope He hath a market-right to me, since He hath ransomed me), I see not how Christ can have me. O, that He would be pleased to be more homely with my soul's love, and to come in to my soul and take His own.
— Samuel Rutherford