Quotes about Heart
Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.
— Teresa of Avila
Prayer is the song of the heart. It reaches the ear of God even if it is mingled with the cry and the tumult of a thousand men.
— Khalil Gibran
Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself.
— Mother Teresa
The heart which has no agenda but God's is the heart at leisure from itself. Its emptiness is filled with the Love of God. Its solitude can be turned into prayer.
— Elisabeth Elliot
A little lifting of the heart suffices; a little remembrance of God, one act of inward worship are prayers which, however short, are nevertheless acceptable to God.
— Brother Lawrence
Prayer continues in the desire of the heart, though the understanding be employed on outward things.
— John Wesley
Prayer need not be an activity we engage in for only an hour each morning. Rather, let us live in the atmosphere of prayer, our hearts continually being lifted up in prayer to Him.
— KP Yohannan
Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor.
— Mother Teresa
No prayers can be heard which do not come from a forgiving heart.
— JC Ryle
The engagement of the heart in worship is the coming alive of the feelings and emotions and affections of the heart. Where feelings for God are dead, worship is dead.
— John Piper
God will hear His people at the beginning of their prayers if the condition of their heart is ready for it.
— Charles Spurgeon
Prayer and love are really learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and your heart turns to stone.
— Thomas Merton