Quotes About Heart

Change begins at the level of the heart.

Here is one of the most beautiful fruits of grace—a heart that is content, more given to worship than demand and more given to the joy of gratitude than the anxiety of want.

The real burdens of suffering are made significantly more difficult when you carry them in a heart spiritually weakened by bitterness.

the struggle of midlife is fundamentally rooted in the idolatries of the heart.

Knowledge is an exercise of your brain. Wisdom is the commitment of your heart that leads to transformation of your life.

This war is a battle for the control of your heart, and whatever functionally rules your heart will then shape the way you see life and your desires, and it will control your words and behavior.

Since sin is deeper than bad behavior, trying to do better isn't a solution. Only grace that changes the heart can rescue us.

Remember the biblical principle of idolatry, desire for a good thing becomes a bad thing when that desire becomes a ruling thing.

Sin makes us better fighters than lovers.

It is only when the peace of God rules my heart that I can know real peace with you.

All of these things were the signs and symptoms of a deeper, more foundational problem. The problem was one of the heart, one that would have an inescapable negative effect on his ministry. The problem was a vertical problem. It had to do with the character and content of this pastor's relationship with God.

We're all spiritually promiscuous, running from lover to lover, giving the loyalty of our hearts to things other than God.

Whatever functionally rules your heart will then shape the way you see life and your desires, and it will control your words and behavior.

I fight with you because I have a heart problem. Rather than my heart being ruled by God and motivated by God's honor, my heart is ruled by my wants, my needs, and my feelings.

Yes, it is true: that night the angels began a song that will never ever end. The Savior who rescued your heart now claims your song. Have you joined the choir?

your alarm that is your conscience only sounds based on the standard that your heart has surrendered to. This means that a good and godly moral value system will all your conscience to function properly, but a bad and self-centered moral value system will mean that your conscience will do you harm.

The difficulties we face in the here and now are not a sign that God has forgotten or abandoned us. He knows where he has placed us. He has placed us here because he is not after our ease; he is after our hearts.

Often we make the mistake of thinking we have a heart for the Lord, when really we're just thankful for him because at that moment he seems to be delivering to us what we have truly set our hearts on. Often we reduce God to just the deliverer of good fits, rather than recognizing him as the ultimate heart-satisfying gift.

Lord, please crush my heart with the guilt of my sin so that you may fill it once again with the glory of your redeeming grace.

you love the gifts and not the Giver, your heart will never be satisfied, but if you love the Giver, your heart will be content and you will be able to enjoy his gifts while keeping them in their proper place.

You're going to hunger for some success in life. May you hunger for the complete success of the gospel in your heart.

Whatever commands the love of your heart also shapes the direction of your life.

So the desire for good possessions is not wrong, but it must not rule your heart.

The desire for the love of another person is not wrong, but it must not rule your heart.