Quotes About Heart

When the Bible uses the term heart, it means the causal core of your personhood. The heart is your directional system. The heart is your steering wheel. Your behavior isn't caused by the situations and relationships outside of you. This passage teaches that your experiences influence, but do not determine, your behavior. Your behavior is shaped and caused by how your heart reacts to and interacts with the situations and relationships that are outside of you.

God's reality is displayed to us in His Word or His world and we do not then feel in our heart any grief or longing or hope or fear or awe or joy or gratitude or confidence, then we may dutifully sing and pray and recite and gesture as much as we like, but it will not be real worship.

Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God.

All human 'virtue' is depraved if it is not from a heart of love to the heavenly Father- Even if the behaviour conforms to biblical norms.

But it's different with pastors-not totally different, but different. The heart is the instrument of our vocation. Charles Spurgeon said, "Ours is more than mental work-it is heart work, the labor of our inmost soul." When a pastor's heart is breaking, therefore, he must labor with a broken instrument. Preaching is the pastor's main work, and preaching is heart work, not just mental work.

Pray with me for that touch. If it comes with fire, so be it. If it comes with water, so be it. If it comes with wind, let it come, O God. If it comes with thunder and lightning, let us bow before it. O Lord, come. Come close enough to touch. Shield us with the asbestos of grace, but no more. Pass through all the way to the heart, and touch. Burn and soak and blow and crash. Or, in a still, small voice. Whatever the means, come. Come all the way and touch our hearts.

One way to describe this problem is to say that when these people "receive Christ," they do not receive him as supremely valuable.

Lo que merecemos de su parte es juicio. Por eso, cada vez que respiramos, cada vez que nuestro corazón late, cada vez que amanece, cada vez que vemos, oímos, hablamos o caminamos, disfrutamos de un inmerecido regalo por ahora dado a nosotros, los pecadores, que lo único que merecemos es juicio.

Emotions for God that do not spring from seeing God cannot honor God.

No true Christian can endure in battling unrighteousness unless his heart is aflame with new spiritual affections, or passions.

If we don't want God above all things we have not been converted by the gospel.

On July 30, 1723, when he was nineteen years old, Edwards wrote in his diary, "I have concluded to endeavor to work myself into duties by searching and tracing back all the real reasons why I do them not, and narrowly searching out all the subtle subterfuges of my thoughts." A week later he wrote, "Very much convinced of the extraordinary deceitfulness of the heart, and how exceedingly… appetite blinds the mind, and brings it into entire subjection.

Now there was only one hope, the sovereign grace of God. God would have to transform my heart to do what a heart cannot make itself do, namely, want what it ought to want. Only God can make the depraved heart desire God.

Conocer la verdad con la mente y aferrarnos a ella como un tesoro en nuestros corazones es la clave a la santidad.

The more you have of a rational knowledge of divine things, the more opportunity will there be, when the Spirit shall be breathed into your heart, to see the excellency of these things, and to taste the sweetness of them.

Prepara tu corazón para recibir a Cristo ¿Cómo va a ser posible que ustedes crean si unos a otros se rinden gloria, pero no buscan la gloria que viene del Dios único? – Juan 5:44

Cuando se rinde al tratar de entender completamente por qué Dios hace lo que hace y simplemente confía en Él; entonces esta paz "guardará su corazón y su mente".

Let us then take heart that the mark of a true follower of Jesus is not yet perfection but rather unrelenting battle against sin.

The fruit of love is worked in us through the Spirit 'by hearing with faith.' The Spirit will not bear his fruit in us apart from our faith. Why is this?..The answer seems to be that the Holy Spirit loves to glorify the all-satisfying dependability of Christ and his Word. If the Holy Spirt simply caused acts of love in the human heart without any clear, ongoing causal connection with faith in Christ's promises, then it would not be plain that Christ is honored through love.

Labor, therefore, to fill your hearts with the cross of Christ . . . that there may be no room for sin.

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

Por donde sea que el estandarte de la libertad y la independencia se haya desplegado o se vaya a desplegar, ahí estarán su corazón, sus bendiciones y sus plegarias. Pero no irán a ultramar en busca de monstruos que destruir. Desearán la libertad y la independencia de todos, pero sólo serán paladines y justificadores de sí mismos.

Hear with your ears, listen with your heart.

even the heart rebels-finally against its own anarchy. And that's the most powerful rebellion.