181 Quotes About The Heart

God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. The lips that uttered them may be closed to death, the heart that felt them may have ceased to beat, but the prayers live before God, and God's heart is set on them and prayers outlive the lives of those who uttered them; they outlive a generation, outlive an age, outlive a world.

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

Time is the brush of God, as he paints his masterpiece on the heart of humanity.

God sees hearts as we see faces.

To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God's responses.

The man or woman who does not know God demands an infinite satisfaction from other human beings which they cannot give, and in the case of the man, he becomes tyrannical and cruel. It springs from this one thing, the human heart must have satisfaction, but there is only one Being who can satisfy the last abyss of the human heart, and that is the Lord Jesus Christ.

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart. Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray.

We had long known the Lord without realizing that meekness and lowliness of heart should be the distinguishing feature of the disciple.

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.

When a man argues for victory and not for truth, he is sure of just one ally that is the devil. Not the defeat of the intellect, but the acceptance of the heart is the only true object in fighting with the sword of the spirit.

Give me five minutes with a person's checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is.

Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.

You must keep all earthy treasures out of your heart, and let Christ be your treasure, and let Him have your heart.

When the heart full of God's love can draw on the mind full of God's word, timely blessings flow from the mouth.

Thou who has given so much to me, give one thing more: a grateful heart.

Christianity is not just repeating John 3:16 or Acts 16:31; it is yielding the heart and the life to Christ.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

And as the circumcised in the flesh, and not in the heart, have no part in God's good promises; even so they that be baptized in the flesh, and not in heart, have no part in Christ's blood.

Nine-tenths of the difficulties are overcome when our hearts are ready to do the Lord's will, whatever it may be. When one is truly in this state, it is usually but a little way to the knowledge of what His will is.

Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure; Where your treasure is, there is your heart; Where your heart is, there is your happiness.

Worship is not a repetitious exercise of rituals and formulas. These create a veil that actually prevents us from enjoying the presence of the Lord. Worship is the heart poured out in gratitude and awe, expressing our appreciation of who He is and what He has done for us by His grace through Jesus Christ.

The testimony of the lips indicates the state of the heart.

A divided heart loses both worlds.

Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.

An honest heart is open to the Word.

He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart.

Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake.

Prayer is not only asking, it is an attitude of heart that produces an atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural, and Jesus says, "every one that asketh receiveth."

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

God loves with a great love the man whose heart is bursting with a passion for the impossible.

God loves a broken heart, not a divided heart.

God is the shaper of your heart. God does not display his work in abstract terms. He prefers the concrete, and this means that at the end of your life one of three things will happen to your heart: it will grow hard, it will be broken, or it will be tender. Nobody escapes.

Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of Man.

Without the heart it is not worship; it is a stage play; an acting a part without being that person really a hypocrite. We may truly be said to worship God-though we lack perfection; but we cannot be said to worship Him if we lack sincerity.

Where love is the compelling power, there is no sense of strain or conflict or bondage in doing what is right: the man or woman who is compelled by Jesus' love and empowered by His Spirit does the will of God from the heart.

Sweet shall be your rest if your heart does not reproach you.

The Gospel, if it is really believed, removes neediness - the need to be constantly respected, appreciated, and well regarded; the need to have everything in your life go well; the need to have power over others. All of these great, deep needs continue to control you only because the concept of the glorious God delighting in you with all His being is just that - a concept and nothing more. Our hearts don't believe it, so they operate in default mode. Paul is saying that if you want to really change, you must let the Gospel teach you - that is to train, discipline, coach you - over a period of time. You must let the Gospel argue with you. You must let the Gospel sink down deeply into your heart, until it changes your motivation and views and attitudes.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

The secret heart is devotion's temple; there the saint lights the flame of purest sacrifice, which burns unseen but not unaccepted.

The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious.

Remember that the tongue speaks only what is in the heart.

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

The single most important thread in working through your disappointments is that your heart and mind ponder and grasp what the cross of Jesus Christ is all about. There is no pattern without the cross. There is no Good News without it. That is what the gospel is all about.

Better a shattered heart than a hardened heart.