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Quotes About Heart

The heart is not so constituted, and the only way to dispossess it of an old affection is by the expulsive power of a new one
~ Thomas Chalmers
A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart.
~ Peggy Noonan
Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.
~ Maria Augusta von Trapp
My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
~ Martin Luther
We can preach the Gospel of Christ no further than we have experienced the power of it in our own hearts
~ George Whitefield
Words have power. The power to soothe. The power to skewer someone through the heart. The power to render someone speechless.
~ Ellen Hopkins, Collateral
If the foundation of faith is not embedded in our hearts, the power to endure will crumble.
~ Henry B. Eyring
Hold the sadness and pain of samsara in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun. Then the warrior can make a proper cup of tea.
~ Chogyam Trungpa
To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart.
~ Jack Kornfield
The heart is the perfection of the whole organism. Therefore the principles of the power of perception and the souls ability to nourish itself must lie in the heart.
~ Aristotle
At the heart of the gospel is a God who deliberately surrenders to the wild, irresistable power of love.
~ Philip Yancey
The day's passage was by Ralph Waldo Emerson. It read: That which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness, and courage, and the endeavor to realize our aspirations. Shall not the heart which has received so much, trust the Power by which it lives? May it not quit other leadings, and listen to the Soul that has guided it so gently, and taught it so much, secure that the future will be worthy of the past?
~ Will Schwalbe
Feasting the Heart by Reynolds Price,
~ Will Schwalbe
The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.
~ Willa Sibert Cather
The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or woman.
~ Willa Sibert Cather
Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood.
~ William Allen White
The cry, the dreadful cry! I know it--louder and nearer, Circling our Dun--the Ban-Shee!--my heart is frozen to hear her! Saw you not in the darkness a spectral glimmer of white Flitting away?--I saw it!--evil her message tonight.
~ William Allingham
Faith is a resting of the heart on God; as on the author of life and eternal salvation: that is to say, that by him we may be freed from all evil, and obtain all good, Isa. 10. 20.
~ William Ames
In the book of Proverbs in the Bible, it reads, As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
~ William Backus
Cruelty has a human heart,And Jealousy a human face;Terror, the human form divine,And Secrecy, the human dress.
~ William Blake
When the voices of children are heard on the greenAnd laughing is heard on the hill,My heart is at rest within my breastAnd everything else is still.
~ William Blake
I discipline churchgoers with godly lessons and sharp words if they do not change their ways. My goal is to open their hearts so that they seek forgiveness.
~ William Brewster
Instantly, the black water enfolded him, cooled him to his heart, and declared, "There is no hope; there never was." The saints was absolute, and full of the silence of a trapped scream.
~ William Browning Spencer
Whatever flames upon the nightMan's own resinous heart has fed.
~ William Butler Yeats