Quotes About Hearts

Could it be, in your leadership community, that there are signs that the glory of achievement has begun to replace the glory of God as the most powerful motivator in the hearts of your leaders and of the way leadership plans, assesses, and does its work?

God takes everyone he loves through a desert. It is his cure for our wandering hearts, restlessly searching for a new Eden.

The Law of the Cross saves because it affirms and embodies the "eternal law" that the Dhammapada, in a different context, also realized: "By love alone is hatred dispelled." Jesus would add: a love that must be ready to die rather than hate. Out of such love, and out of such death that this love can require, will hatred be dispelled. Hearts will be changed. And so will our world.

little children never get frozen by their selfishness. Like the disciples, they come just as they are, totally self-absorbed. They seldom get it right. As parents or friends, we know all that. In fact, we are delighted (most of the time!) to find out what is on their little hearts. We don't scold them for being self-absorbed or fearful. That is just who they are.

Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.

You are in love with intelligence, until it frightens you. For your ideas are terrifying and your hearts are faint. Your acts of pity and cruelty are absurd, committed with no calm, as if they were irresistible. Finally, you fear blood more and more. Blood and time.

There is no hate without fear [...]. Hate is fear crystallized, fear objectified. We hate what threatens our selves, our dreams, our plans, our freedom, our place in the world, our place in the hearts of the people we love. We fear first. Then we hate.

To hearts which near each other move From evening close to morning light, The night is good; because, my love, They never say good-night.

Non-stories may provide information, but stories have a unique power to move people's hearts, minds, feet, and wallets in the story teller's intended direction.

Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces "nice" people, not heroes.

And I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they will go in after them. Then I will gain honor by means of Pharaoh and all his army and chariots and horsemen.

and I acted with hostility toward them and brought them into the land of their enemies—and if their uncircumcised hearts will be humbled and they will make amends for their iniquity,

Why harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened theirs? When He afflicted them, did they not send the people on their way as they departed?

Saul also went to his home in Gibeah, and the men of valor whose hearts God had touched went with him.

Absalom did this to all the Israelites who came to the king for justice. In this way he stole the hearts of the men of Israel.

If these people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, their hearts will return to their lord, Rehoboam king of Judah; then they will kill me and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.”

O LORD, God of our fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, keep this desire forever in the intentions of the hearts of Your people, and direct their hearts toward You.

Put an end to the evil of the wicked, but establish the righteous, O righteous God who searches hearts and minds.

They have closed their callous hearts; their mouths speak with arrogance.

The poor will eat and be satisfied; those who seek the LORD will praise Him. May your hearts live forever!

Do not drag me away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors while malice is in their hearts.

He shapes the hearts of each; He considers all their works.

But their swords will pierce their own hearts, and their bows will be broken.

No, in your hearts you devise injustice; with your hands you mete out violence on the earth.