Quotes about Heart

But even though disciplining yourself is sometimes diffcult and involves struggle, self-discipline is not self-punishment. It is instead an attempt to do what, prompted by the Spirit, you actually want in your heart to do.

Love your enemies." That is the hardest saying of all. Please, Father in heaven who made me, take away my heart of stone and give me a heart of flesh to love my enemy. It is a terrible thought — "we love God as much as the one we love the least.

Love is a commandment, Father Hugo said. It is a choice, a preference. If we love God with our whole hearts, how much heart have we left? If we love with our whole mind and soul and strength, how much mind and soul and strength have we left? We must live this life now. Death changes nothing. If we do not learn to enjoy God now we never will. If we do not learn to praise Him and thank Him and rejoice in Him now, we never will.

The Grinch hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season! Now, please don't ask why. No one quite knows the reason. It could be his head wasn't screwed on just right. It could be, perhaps his shoes were too tight. But I think that the most likely reason of all May have been that his heart was two sizes too small.

As you spend time with God, you'll begin to think like Him, which will allow you to pray according to His heart and will.

God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.

To make the most of your life you must keep the vision of eternity continually in your mind and the value of it in your heart.

There's a throne in each life big enough for only one. Christ may be on that throne, or money may be. But both cannot occupy it.

We may think God wants actions of a certain kind, but God wants people of a certain kind.

The state of your heart dictates whether you harbor a grudge or give grace, seek self-pity or seek Christ, drink human misery or taste God's mercy.

Living life with a clear conscience is the fruit of a repentant heart and new life through Jesus Christ.

No city invites the heart to come to life as San Francisco does. Arrival in San Francisco is an experience in living.