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Quotes About Heart

My heart is pounding like a million trillion beats a minute as I scoot closer to him.
~ Jenny Han
I want to say yes, but I don't want to be with a boy whose heart belongs to somebody else. Just once, I want to be someone else's first choice. -Lara Jean
~ Jenny Han
US,' Peter corrects. 'I did it for us.' He links our fingers together. 'It's you and me, kid.' -Peter So I take Peter's hand; I put it on my heart. I tell him, 'You have to take good care of this, because it's yours.' -Lara Jean
~ Jenny Han
But lately I'm like a beatnik in a movie. Fuck this bourgeois shit, baby! Let's be pure of heart again!
~ Jenny Offill
She remembers the first night she knew she loved him, the way the fear came rushing in. She laid her head on his chest and listened to his heart. One day this too will stop, she thought. The no, no, no of it.
~ Jenny Offill
Ben told me once that the Greeks had this term, epoché, meaning "I suspend judgment." Useful for those of us prone to making common cause with strangers on buses. Sudden alliances, my brother calls them. I have to be careful. My heart is prodigal.
~ Jenny Offill
But you could, if you were wrong and if you had a crooked heart, forget this most obvious and endearing thing and instead speak of a time you were all alone, in the country, with no one wanting a thing from you, not even love. You could say that was your happiest time. And if you did this then telling about this happiest of times would cause the person you most want to be happy to be unhappy.
~ Jenny Offill
A sparrow's heart beats four hundred and sixty times a minute. A man's, just seventy-eight. But sometimes, at night, my heart approached sparrow speed. This happened when the darkness crept into my bed and wrapped itself around my feet.
~ Jenny Offill
A noble heart is a thankful heart that loves to acknowledge whenever it has received any mercy.
~ Jeremiah Burroughs
There are many people who, when God's hand is out against them, will say they are troubled for their sin, but the truth is, it is the affliction that troubles them rather than their sin. Their heart greatly deceives them in this very thing.
~ Jeremiah Burroughs
But if I have once overcome my heart, and am contented through the grace of God in my heart, then this makes me content not only in one particular but in general, whatever befalls me.
~ Jeremiah Burroughs
I find a sufficiency of satisfaction in my own heart, through the grace of Christ that is in me. Though I have not outward comforts and worldly conveniences to supply my necessities, yet I have a sufficient portion between Christ and my soul abundantly to satisfy me in every condition.
~ Jeremiah Burroughs
I find that the same Hebrew word which signifies to lodge, to abide, signifies to murmur. They use one word for both, for murmuring is a disorder that lodges in men; where it gets in once it lodges, abides and continues, and therefore, that we may dislodge it and get it out, we will labor to show what are the further reasonings of a discontented heart.
~ Jeremiah Burroughs
Here lies the bottom and root of all contentment, when there is an evenness and proportion between our hearts and our circumstances.
~ Jeremiah Burroughs
And the truth is, I know nothing more effective for quieting a Christian soul and getting contentment than this, setting your heart to work in the duties of the immediate circumstances that you are now in, and taking heed of your thoughts about other conditions as a mere temptation.
~ Jeremiah Burroughs
a chief way and help to keep comfort and contentment in our hearts, is to make good interpretations of Gods dealing towards us.
~ Jeremiah Burroughs
If I may be permitted to liken America to the human body, then I think it is fair to say that California is its face, New York is its brain and Texas is its heart. If you wanna know what makes America tick, get your ten-gallon hat on, and get yourself to Texas.
~ Jeremy Clarkson
Did I mention the dolphin? As a unique selling point the boys in Tahiti had caught themselves a big grey beasty which spent all day on its back, in a lagoon, being pawed by overweight American women with preposterous plastic tits and unwise G-string bikini bottoms. 'Would you like to see his penis?' asked the man in a skirt when I climbed into the water. No. What I'd like to do is spear you through the heart with a harpoon and let the miserable thing have a taste of freedom.
~ Jeremy Clarkson
Above all, the system had prized integrity above intellect; 'learning and cultivation of the mind come last, character, heart, courage, strength and physical address are in the first rank'.
~ Jeremy Paxman
This one's for Aura. You all know who that is by now. The only girl I've ever loved. I wrote her a song, but she's the only one who's ever heard it, or ever will.
~ Jeri Smith-Ready
My heart pounded when its counterpart thumped beneath his skin. "How?" "I don't care," he said, and kissed me.
~ Jeri Smith-Ready
As long as you are at home make your cell your paradise, gather there the varied fruits of scripture, let this be your favourite companion, and take its precepts to your heart.
~ Jerome
nothing is so displeasing to God as an impenitent heart. Impenitence is the one sin for which there is no forgiveness.
~ Jerome
We need to cultivate in our own hearts the same hatred of sin God has. Hatred of sin as sin, not just as something disquieting or defeating to ourselves, but as displeasing to God, lies at the root of all true holiness.
~ Jerry Bridges