Quotes About Heart

It is better to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all

It seemed to her suddenly that violence was an inescapable factor of the heart, perhaps the most important factor of all—an ineradicable thing that lay, like a bad seed, behind kindness, behind compassion, behind the embrace of love itself. Sometimes it lay deeply hidden, sometimes it lay close to the surface; but always it was there, ready to appear, under the right conditions, in all its irrational dreadfulness.

Old Songs are more than tunes. They are little houses in which our hearts once lived. When we hear them we go visiting—we walk forgotten streets, we smile again at the skies of youth.

Could not but think, as I have often remarked to others, that much more of true religion consists in deep humility, brokenness of heart, and an abasing sense of barrenness and want of grace and holiness than most who are called Christians imagine

Deciding whom to love is an inherently emotional business.

You can't build rich lives simply by reading sermons or following abstract rules. Example is the best teacher. Moral improvement occurs most reliably when the heart is warmed

Things are often more meaningful when they come out of natural need. You don't think about the beating of your heart until things go amiss. And there aren't many things much sweeter than breath after the lack of it.

My so-called love for humanity, for instance, isn't something I get to carry around in my heart. It has to find application among the weird, desperate people who populate my daily experience. It has to put on flesh. If it doesn't, I might take pleasure in the warm, fuzzy feeling of my personal, private faith, but it wouldn't be appropriate to call it Christianity.

In the end, it is not the power of the mind nor the strengths of the body but the instincts of the human heart that save the world. It is the simple human capacity for mercy that finally allows evil to be overthrown.

Ongoing passion and growth in intimacy requires us to let go of our ideas of what we "should" be doing and instead trust the wisdom inherent in our unguarded heart and uninhibited body.

What, after all, is mathematics but the poetry of the mind, and what is poetry but the mathematics of the heart?

Every atom of Markus melted into intense pleasure. And at the center of this ecstatic realm, his heart leapt with joy throughout his entire body.

Sa réaction était excessive. En défendant ainsi son territoire avec Markus, elle trahissait son trouble. Ce trouble qu'elle était toujours incapable de définir. Le Larousse s'arrête là où le cœur commence.

El diccionario Larousse termina ahí donde empieza el corazón"...

charge of a six-person team that you belong to. You walked in just as I was daydreaming, and I didn't grasp the real situation at that moment." "But that moment was the realest of my life," protested Markus without thinking. It had come right out of his heart.

Et il est compliqué de vivre avec un coeur qui ne bat que de temps à autre.

El corazón, pese a estar siempre lleno de vacilaciones y de incertidumbres, te impulsa a hacer algo, a actuar, para que nunca puedas lamentar no haberlo intentado todo

para llegar al centro del corazón se requiere descubrir, observar y aceptar todas nuestras penas y lamentos

there's something inside the human heart, when truth is preached, that says, "Yes, that's it.

God does not want obedience as the fruit of our willful determination. God wants surrender as the choice of the heart. For what we long for in our heart we will pursue with the totality of our being not simply with the resolve of our will.

Looking back, I find it remarkable how easily I accepted ideas about God as substitutes for direct experience of him. It took me a long time to begin to know God through my heart and not simply my head.

Spiritual transformation does not result from fixing our problems. It results from turning to God in the midst of them and meeting God just as we are. Turning to God is the core of prayer. Turning to God in our sin and shame is the heart of spiritual transformation.

Those who surrender obey. But not all who obey surrender. It is quite easy to obey God for the wrong reasons. What God desires is submission of our heart and will, not simply compliance in our behavior.

Giving and receiving love is at the heart of being human. It is our raison d'être.