Quotes about Heart

For what would it profit us to know the whole Bible by heart and the principles of all the philosophers if we live without grace and the love of God?

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.

While God does want to reach our hearts, He does not bypass our minds in the process.

Set me like a seal upon thy heart, love is as strong as death." This

Set me like a seal upon thy heart, love is as strong as death.

Fear no more, says the heart.

I went from one to the other holding my sorrow - no, not my sorrow but the incomprehensible nature of this our life - for their inspection. Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends, I to my own heart, I to seek among phrases and fragments something unbroken - I to whom there is no beauty enough in moon or tree; to whom the touch of one person with another is all, yet who cannot grasp even that, who am so imperfect, so weak, so unspeakably lonely.

There was an emptiness about the heart of life; an attic room.

My heart currently resembles the ashes of my cigarettes.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry...I to my own heart, I to seek among phrases and fragments something unbroken.

For centuries the writing-desk has contained sheets fit precisely for the communication of friends. Masters of language, poets of long ages, have turned from the sheet that endures to the sheet that perishes, pushing aside the tea-tray, drawing close to the fire (for letters are written when the dark presses around a bright red cave), and addressed themselves the task of reaching, touching, penetrating the individual heart.

One must own that there are certain books which can be read without the mind and without the heart, but still with considerable enjoyment.