Quotes about Heart

When amazing realities of the gospel quit commanding your attention, your awe, and your worship, other things in your life will capture your attention instead.

An idolatrous heart will produce idol words, words that serve the idol that grips us.

Change begins at the level of the heart.

Here is one of the most beautiful fruits of grace—a heart that is content, more given to worship than demand and more given to the joy of gratitude than the anxiety of want.

The real burdens of suffering are made significantly more difficult when you carry them in a heart spiritually weakened by bitterness.

the struggle of midlife is fundamentally rooted in the idolatries of the heart.

Knowledge is an exercise of your brain. Wisdom is the commitment of your heart that leads to transformation of your life.

This war is a battle for the control of your heart, and whatever functionally rules your heart will then shape the way you see life and your desires, and it will control your words and behavior.

Since sin is deeper than bad behavior, trying to do better isn't a solution. Only grace that changes the heart can rescue us.

Remember the biblical principle of idolatry, desire for a good thing becomes a bad thing when that desire becomes a ruling thing.

It is only when the peace of God rules my heart that I can know real peace with you.

All of these things were the signs and symptoms of a deeper, more foundational problem. The problem was one of the heart, one that would have an inescapable negative effect on his ministry. The problem was a vertical problem. It had to do with the character and content of this pastor's relationship with God.