Quotes About Heart

Beware of worldliness—it can turn your heart away from God.

Examine your heart and put away any distraction so you can worship God freely.

A man after God's own heart is... a man who yearns to please God, a man who desires to grow spiritually, a man who had a heart that obeys.

Complacency happens almost without notice. Check and renew your heart daily.

When it comes to the heart and soul, only the Bible can bring true and lasting changes.

A tearless heart is a callous heart.

Prayer is a heart exercise. It's an act of communicating with God about what's most important and pressing in your life.

Whatever is true about your heart will show up in your actions.

My heart must open to the cosmos with no langauage unless we invent it moment by moment in order to breathe.

The heart wants life so much and the brain is shocked at the approach of death. The soldier always thinks it will be someone else, the man before or behind him, or hopefully no one he knows will ever die.

Lift up your dark heart and sing a song about how time drifts past you like the gentlest, almost imperceptible breeze. — Jim Harrison, from "Cold Poem," Saving Daylight . (Copper Canyon Press 2006)

Some nights are three nights long, some days a mere noon hour, then whistled back to work, the heart dredging sludge.

language was a convenience of the heart, not something to bludgeon people with.

I saw a doe and a fawn but Sonia chased them away, roaring as if they meant us harm. I rehearsed my entire life and I heard my heart for the first time. In the morning I had fantasies of love and laughter, even creating the image of Duane and my father riding horseback up the drawn toward me.

Our hearts, like sails on a ship, are not designed to grasp the why and the where. Our hearts are designed to do one thing—respond.

Facts are fine, fer as they go, but they're like water bugs skittering atop the water. Legends, now - they go deep down and bring up the heart of a story.

As Jane Lampman, who wrote the Monitor article, put it, "The Gospel, some evangelicals are quick to point out, teaches that the line separating good and evil runs not between nations, but inside every human heart."20

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

love is fire. but whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house,you can never tell.

Love is a fire. But whether it's going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Nor can we know ahead of the fact (and here lies the heart of the difference between grief as we imagine it and grief as it is) the unending absence that follows, the void, the very opposite of meaning, the relentless succession of moments during which we will confront the experience of meaninglessness itself.

I did that on purpose,' Lucille Miller told Erwin Sprengle later, 'to save myself from letting my heart do something crazy.

because in at least one respect California—the California we are talking about—resembles Eden: it is assumed that those who absent themselves from its blessings have been banished, exiled by some perversity of heart. Did not the Donner-Reed Party, after all, eat its own dead to reach Sacramento?

No, but it's almost as bad as that. I need to calm down, Hannah. Do you have any chocolate?" "You've come to the house of endorphins, the source of the Dark Chocolate River, the heart of the Milk Chocolate Valley, and the foothills of the White Chocolate Mountains.