Quotes about Heart

God has … planted eternity in the human heart. ECCLESIASTES 3:11 (NLT) Surely God would not have created such a being as man to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality. ABRAHAM LINCOLN

True hospitality is marked by an open response to the dignity of each and every person. Henri Nouwen has described it as receiving the stranger on his own terms, and asserts that it can be offered only by those who 'have found the center of their lives in their own hearts'.

But hope has an astonishing resilience and strength. Its very persistence in our hearts indicates that it is not a tonic for wishful thinkers but the ground on which realists stand.

When beauty is universal, it loses its power to move the heart, and only its absence can produce any emotional effect.

A broken heart is a reminder of our only source of power.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.

Prayer is climbing up into the heart of God.

Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.

Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.

Our prayers may be weak, stammering, and poor in our eyes. But if they come from a right heart, God understands them. Such prayers are His delight.

Those who pray from the heart do not think about the prayer they are saying, but about the God to whom they pray.