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Quotes About Hearts

Tenderness will win hearts so hardened that nothing else can move them. Truth spoken in love goes directly to the heart of the hearer and calls forth a kind response…. It overcomes prejudice and hardness.… It melts and wins where the most logical argument, the most terrible warning, and the severest threatening would produce no more impression than the falling of dew upon a block of granite.
~ Alexander Strauch
At the center of all things and within all hearts exists the void of possibility one absolute consciousness connecting all that lives dividing, it remains one expanding but does not grow endlessly does it die and eternally it lives, perfect but not yet no-thing and full meaning between each sound silence at the heart of eternal light deep darkness.
~ Alexis karpouzos
The struggles waged by nations are weak only when they lack support in the hearts of their women.
~ Jose Marti
Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.
~ Charles Henry Parkhurst
Betsy was impulsive in every area save one. Where men were concerned, she'd never ventured anything. Let others wear their hearts on their sleeves; let others chase after masculine attention. Betsy had more interesting pursuits.
~ Regina Jennings
Many ministers study only to compose their sermons and very little more, when there are so many books to be read and so many matters that we should be acquainted with. In the preparation of our sermons, we are too negligent, gathering only a few bare headings and not considering the most forcible expressions by which we should set them home to men's hearts.
~ Richard Baxter
Beware lest, while you proclaim to the world the necessity of a Savior, your own hearts should neglect him, and you should miss an interest in him and his saving benefits. Take heed to yourselves, lest you perish, while you call upon others to take heed of perishing; and lest you famish yourselves while you prepare food for them. Though there
~ Richard Baxter
This biblical mandate to work—here with the emphasis on cultivating and tending—explodes a great misconception regarding gender roles. We have been taught that women are the main nurturers, while men are to be "strong and silent." But the Bible calls men to be cultivators, and that includes a significant emphasis on tending the hearts of those given into our charge.
~ Richard D. Phillips
The two models of revival are in reality only one: the expanding of God's kingdom in a liberating warfare against the forces of darkness in which the most important battleground is the hearts of men.
~ Richard F. Lovelace
God is gathering us out of all regions till he can make resurrection of our own hearts from the very earth [emphasis added], and teach us that we are all of one substance, and members of one another; for the one who loves his neighbor loves God, and the one who loves God, loves his own soul.
~ Richard Rohr
In our blindness we have so contrived and ordered the lives of men that the moths in their hearts flutter toward ghoulish and incomprehensible flames!
~ Richard Wright
If you run on lies long enough, they become your truth. Such delicate fabric we conceal our motives in. Colors to obscure the truth of our hearts. No one is a bad person in his or her own mind. We are all noble protagonists.
~ Rick Remender
For an absurd moment, I wondered if Ammit devoured the hearts of wicked cows, and if he liked the beefy taste. - Carter Kane
~ Rick Riordan
There is goodness in many hearts. In most hearts. In some hearts. I love peanuts.
~ Kate DiCamillo
When the powerful are made weak, when they are revealed to be human, to have hearts, their diminishment is nothing short of terrifying.
~ Kate DiCamillo
Davis picked up a chocolate cowboy hat stuffed with a popcorn bull and red foil candy hearts. Not only do I want to be a cowboy, I want five—better make it six of these hats. Don't want Bambi to feel left out.
~ Kathy Carmichael
I wonder if what we feel in our hearts today isn't like these raindrops still falling on us from the soaked leaves above, even though the sky itself long stopped raining. I'm wondering if without our memories, there's nothing for it but for our love to fade and die.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
I do, Axl. But then again I wonder if what we feel in our hearts today isn't like these raindrops still falling on us from the soaked leaves above, even though the sky itself long stopped raining. I'm wondering if without our memories, there's nothing for it but for our love to fade and die.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Real power has to do with one's ability to influence the hearts and minds of others.
~ Dalai Lama
People don't give up power and privilege out of the goodness of their hearts.
~ Rachel Holmes
An easy thing, O Power Divine, To thank thee for these gifts of Thine, For summer's sunshine, winter's snow, For hearts that kindle thoughts that glow.
~ Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Power will intoxicate the best hearts as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
~ Walter Colton
Prayer is of transcendent importance. Prayer is the mightiest agent to advance God's work. Praying hearts and hands only can do God's work. Prayer succeeds when all else fails.
~ E. M. Bounds
Prayer guards hearts and minds and causes God to bring peace out of chaos
~ Beth Moore