Quotes about Heart
He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon
— Herman Melville
I felt a melting in me. No more my splintered heart and maddened hand were turned against the wolfish world. This soothing savage had redeemed it. There he sat, his very indifference speaking a nature in which there lurked no civilized hypocrisies and bland deceits. Wild he was; a very sight of sights to see; yet I began to feel myself mysteriously drawn towards him.
— Herman Melville
Silent, slow, and solemn; bowing over still further his chronically broken back, he toiled away, as if toil were life itself, and the heavy beating of his hammer the heavy beating of his heart. And so it was.—Most miserable!
— Herman Melville
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
— Teresa of Avila
Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise.
— Charles Spurgeon
There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
— Robert Frost
To truly repent of a big thing, you have to go into it with your heart open and force yourself to deal with it at that level and to apologize to God.
— Bruce Wilkinson
The truth is, even those who think Dreams only happen to someone else carry a Dream hidden deep in their heart, just hoping it can come true.
— Bruce Wilkinson
I have to not harden my heart, because I want to stay open to feel things.
— Dolly Parton
If my words don't flow out of a heart that rests in God's control, sovereignty, then they come out of the heart that seeks control so I can get what I want.
— Mark Driscoll
Jesus's miracles are not just a challenge to our minds, but a promise to our hearts, that the world we all want is coming.
— Timothy Keller
Love and do what you want. If you stop talking, you will stop talking with love; if you shout, you will shout with love; if you correct, you will correct with love.
— St. Augustine