Quotes about Heart

Hear O Israel, the Lord our God. The Lord is One. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these.

Morality is about a heart that is right before God.

Jesus is probing into the heart of his followers to ask them if they value life more than kingdom and righteousness.

If we add all this together, we get something like this: a "blessed" person is someone who, because of a heart for God, is promised and enjoys God's favor regardless of that person's status or countercultural condition.

Perhaps it is easiest to define "meek" by saying Jesus was meek: "for I am gentle [same word as our beatitude] and humble31 in heart" (11:29). Moreover, in entering Jerusalem on a donkey, Jesus fulfilled an Old Testament expectation of the meek king (21:5).

Anger is not bitterness. Bitterness can go on eating at a man's heart and mind forever. Anger spends itself in its own time.

Do not read to satisfy curiosity or to pass the time, but study such things as move your heart to devotion.

You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind of eye couldn't detect.

Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.

A sound heart is a surer guide than an ill-trained conscience.

A full belly is of little worth where the mind is starved, and the heart.