Quotes about Heart

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue [is] the pen of a ready writer.

Believe in your heart that you're meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles.

Anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.

I think your heart needs to be broken, and broken open, at least once to have a heart at all or to have a heart for others.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

Before you can teach children, you must get the silver key of kindness to unlock their hearts, and so secure their attention.

God is God. I dethrone Him in my heart if I demand that He act in ways that satisfy my idea of justice. It is the same spirit that taunted, If Thou be the Son of God, come down from the Cross. There is unbelief, there is even rebellion, in the attitude that says, God has no right to do this to five men unless...

If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.

Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone accept, His Lordship. The Cross, as it enters the love life, will reveal the heart's truth.

The willingness to sacrifice that springs from a loving heart rather than the desire for spiritual distinction is surely acceptable to God. But, as in the case of Abraham's offering of his son Isaac, the sacrifice itself is not always finally required. What is required is obedience.

If we love someone more than we love God, it is worse than inordinate - it is idolatry. When God is first in our hearts, all other loves are in order and find their rightful place.