Heart Quotes

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.

~ Martin Luther

God removes the sin of the one who makes humble confession, and thereby the devil loses the sovereignty he had gained over the human heart.

~ Saint Bernard

As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there.

~ Mehmet Oz

As for reputation, though it be a glorious instrument of advancing our Master's service, yet there is a better than that: a clean heart, a single eye, and a soul full of God. A fair exchange if, by the loss of reputation, we can purchase the lowest degree of purity of heart.

~ John Wesley

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A 'real pastor' is not preaching of their own; they are speaking what God put in their heart by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is using them at that very moment to speak to the congregations situations -past, present, and future.

~ Monica Johnson

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Sorrow for sin is indeed necessary, but it should not be an endless preoccupation. You must dwell also on the glad remembrance of God's loving-kindness; otherwise, sadness will harden the heart and lead it more deeply into despair.

~ Saint Bernard

The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.

~ Edith Stein

God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.

~ Edna St. Vincent Millay

We are not sent into this world mainly to enjoy the loveliness therein, nor to sit us down in passive ease; no, we were sent here for action. The soul that seeks to do the will of God with a pure heart, fervently, does not yield to the lethargy of ease.

~ Dorothea Dix

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

~ Blaise Pascal

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

~ Meister Eckhart

Compassion enables you to reach to the heavens and look through the heart of God.

~ Debbie Ford

Only God can look at somebody's heart.

~ Joel Osteen

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

~ Blaise Pascal

At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.

~ E. Stanley Jones

When people rely on surface appearances and false racial stereotypes, rather than in-depth knowledge of others at the level of the heart, mind and spirit, their ability to assess and understand people accurately is compromised.

~ James A. Forbes

The generous wish to share with all what is precious, to spread broadcast priceless truths, to shut out none from the illumination of true knowledge, has resulted in a zeal without discretion that has vulgarised Christianity, and has presented its teachings in a form that often repels the heart and alienates the intellect.

~ Annie Besant

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

~ William Hazlitt

I hate rats. I had a pet rat to try and overcome it. I even gave him mouth-to mouth resuscitation when he had a heart attack. But I couldn't conquer it.

~ Sam Taylor-Wood

I have a little bit of a pet peeve about how the middle class is depicted in movies. I feel like they tend to be either depicted in a very sentimental way, where everybody has a heart of gold except for the villains you're supposed to hiss at, or there's a sort of indie-style version... When it's done well, it's brilliant, it's 'Blue Velvet.'

~ Greg Mottola

From my own experience, I want to say that you should follow your heart, and the mind will follow you. Believe in yourself, and you will create miracles.

~ Kailash Satyarthi

When you experience the emotion of sadness, there will be changes in facial expression, and your body will be closed in, withdrawn. There are also changes in your heart, your guts: they slow down. And there are hormonal changes.

~ Antonio Damasio

To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God's responses.

~ Charles Stanley

You're creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it's their experience, not yours. I'll never introduce a song and say, now this song is about 'my' broken heart.

~ Diana Krall

The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.

~ Kate Seredy

If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.

~ Sharon Salzberg

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

~ Confucius

Madison Square Garden, November 1984. I don't recall taking too much fear into the ring. I knew I could fight. But I got a big shock. They put me in with this rough, tough veteran called Lionel Byarm. He tested me to the limit. But I fought my heart out and, in the end, I prevailed. The story of my life, in my very first fight.

~ Evander Holyfield

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

~ Paulo Coelho

When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.

~ Horace Mann

The deepest parts of you know that if freedom from fear was as easy as 'creating a new reality' for yourself, then you would already be the fearless person you know in your heart that you're meant to be.

~ Guy Finley

Logically, harmony must come from the heart... Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

~ Dalai Lama

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

~ Joseph Conrad

Should we fear hackers? Intention is at the heart of this discussion.

~ Kevin Mitnick

No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.

~ Olive Schreiner

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.

~ Aeschylus