Quotes about Heart
Just as Jesus predicted, what originates in the secret place won't always remain a secret. ... How do we guard -- or maybe it would be more appropriate to say, guard against -- our hearts? How do we monitor what's going on in that secret place that has the potential to go public at any moment?
— Andy Stanley
Giving is the way God chooses to change our hearts. As your heart changes, your attitude and feelings will follow suit. God loves a cheerful giver, but he'll put your money to good use whether you're cheerful or not. My advice: Give until you get cheerful. As I've said, our giving must impact our
— Andy Stanley
Your heart didn't arrive at its present condition overnight. It won't become healthy overnight either. You can't overcome in an instant the effects of years of blockage caused by guilt, anger, greed, and jealousy. Adopting new habits of the heart is a process, but it's a process that will yield some immediate results.
— Andy Stanley
It is when our hearts are stirred that we become most aware of what they contain.
— Andy Stanley
It takes a habit to break a habit. You can pray every day for a generous heart, but until you start acting in that direction, nothing's going to change.
— Andy Stanley
Guilt rarely results in positive behavior. But gratitude? Great things flow from a heart of gratitude.
— Andy Stanley
Give me five minutes with a person's checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is.
— Billy Graham
Where a man's heart is, there is his treasure also.
— Ambrose of Milan
There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
— St. Augustine
The Lord never lays more on us, in the way of chastisement, than our state of heart makes needful; so that whilst He smites with the one hand, He supports with the other.
— George Muller
Our lack of forgiveness makes us hate, and our lack of compassion makes us hard-hearted. Pride in our hearts makes us resentful and keeps our memory in a constant whirlwind of passion and self-pity.
— Mother Angelica
The aim of God in history is the creation of an all-inclusive community of loving persons with God himself at the very heart of this community as its prime Sustainer and most glorious Inhabitant.
— Dallas Willard