Quotes About Heart

The heart of the Pauline proclamation is the Lordship of Christ (2 Cor. 4:5).

It is not at all clear that Paul conceived of baptism as the Christian equivalent of circumcision.65 The "circumcision of Christ" (Col. 2:11) is easiest to understand as the circumcision of the heart that Christ performs.66 This is an altogether spiritual event, one "made without hands," and is synonymous with dying to sin. Circumcision then stands in contrast to baptism, not in correlation with it.67

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.

I have told my passion, my eyes have spoke it, my tongue pronounced it, and my pen declared it; I have sighed it, wrote it, and subscribed it, now my heart is full of you, my head raves of you and my hand writes to you but all in vain.

The Lord showed me, so that I did see clearly, that he did not dwell in these temples which men had commanded and set up, but in people's hearts… his people were his temple, and he dwelt in them.

Every house has a heart, the echoes of its owner's presence, and simple magic that turns a building into a home.

The door in the far wall slid open and Arland strode through it. She saw his handsome face, framed with a mane of blond hair. His blue eyes found her. He grinned. Her heart skipped a beat. Damn it.

Se não ama, faça como se amasse.

When she starts to understand that being amused and grateful actually moves the process of labor along more efficiently, she starts to work toward these feelings herself. Hard work may continue, but she now has the heart for it. Instead of fearing her body, she experiments with trusting it.

Dopo tutto, si giudicano gli altri solo in base al proprio cuore: l'avaro vede sempre la gente spinta dall'interesse, il lussurioso dall'ossessione del desiderio.

The sense of despair has to remove those barriers one by one, and only then does despair penetrate to the heart of man who gradually recognises the enemy, calls it by name, and is horrified.

Un'unione dove il cuore non ha voce è una caricatura dell'amore coniugale.

I'd like to have a spice garden some day," Rosemary said. "Out of the city, of course. If Guy ever gets a movie offer we're going to grab it and go live in Los Angeles. I'm a country girl at heart.

I suppose because our hearts are made in a certain way we cannot help being what we are.

This sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart...

How hardening to the heart it must be to do this thing: to change an innocent soaring being into a bundle of struggling rags and pain.

I saw through a black veil of misery and remorse and indecision and fear; and there was a feeling as if I carried a small leaden coffin in the place of my heart.

And now in her deep heart an even sharper pain was stirring, a pain which would stay with her always.

With strong magnetic force the human heart is drawn to consolation; and even grieving becomes consolation in the end.

Deep, deepest inside his wounded heart. he felt the new pain, the pain which would now travel with him always.

There are violent things in my heart. Perhaps they have been festering there ever since that change . And now I have run in here to find some different pain, some mystery of myself to keep secret, something which, for this short time, is absolutely not Jack.

These words had impressed Clement deeply, inscribed upon his heart.

Terrible sadness, dread, an agonizing desire for happiness swelled in his heart.