Quotes about Heart
Ah, Lord God, thou holy lover of my soul, when thou comest into my heart, all that is within me shall rejoice.
- Thomas a Kempis
God to be God must rule the heart and transform it.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Seeing God face to face is to feel that He is enthroned in our hearts even as a child feels a mother's affection without needing any demonstration.
- Mahatma Gandhi
God accepts the sacrifice of the pure in heart.
- Mahatma Gandhi
I believe there is an evolutionary impulse toward good that is etched on every human heart. It is placed there by the hand of God.
- Marianne Williamson
He who loses sight of the word of God, falls into despair; the voice of heaven no longer sustains him; he follows only the disorderly tendency of his heart.
- Martin Luther
The law of God cannot be fulfilled by external obedience.
- Martin Luther
If the heart has been reformed by the spirit, it makes use of both the useful and delightful things created and given by God in a holy manner and with thanksgiving.
- Martin Luther
When our heart is broken, we can't hear it. And when we can't hear our heart, we can't hear God.
- Melody Beattie
Riches, both material and spiritual, can choke you if you do not use them fairly. For not even God can put anything in a heart that is already full.
- Mother Teresa
Blessed are the pure in heart; how will people believe that, unless we ourselves are worshipping the living God until our own hearts are set on fire and scorched through with his purity?
- NT Wright
Prayer is fundamentally a transformation of will, a lifting of the heart and will to God.
- Peter Kreeft