181 Quotes About The Heart

"Many deceptions only appeal to us because there is something inside us that "wants" to believe them. They are seductive because of darkness and wrong motives in our own lives. We must search our hearts and root these out."

"Earth has nothing more tender than a woman's heart when it is the abode of piety."

"Until we taste the bitterness of our own misery we will never relish the sweetness of God's mercy. Until we see how foul our sins have made us we will never pay our tribute of praise to Christ for washing us... If you would know the heart of your sin then you must know the sins of your 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."

"We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another."

"An honest heart seeks to please God in all things and offend Him in none."

"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."

"Secret sins commonly lie nearest the heart."

"The heart is the mainspring."

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

"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."

"A pure heart won't get us out of conflict and controversy. It may well be the very thing that gets us into it."

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

"Self-denial corrects two evil tendencies ever attacking Christian ethics. There is a tendency to give more attention to outward standards than to the inward state of the heart. And there is a tendency to be strict with others and lenient with oneself... These two dragons are slain by the sword of self-denial when their heads appear in the land of Christian liberty."

"God makes appointments with us in our disappointments. To see the pattern we must take three steps involving the heart, the mind, and the cross."