“So far also we know that one way by which the law is kept written upon a Christian’s heart is this,— a sense of God’s presence.”
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
—Charles Dickens
There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the human heart that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes.
—Leo Tolstoy
Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!
—Charles Dickens
Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.
—Thomas Aquinas
“This is a great evidence of the writing of the law upon the heart, when holiness becomes a pleasure, and sin becomes a sorrow.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Whoever does not lose heart and does not cry, also never rejoices.
—Taras Shevchenko
“When it becomes a misery to serve God, then indeed the heart is far away from spiritual health; for when the heart is renewed, it delights to worship and serve the Lord.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“Even though you cannot be as holy as you want to be, yet if the ways of holiness are your pleasure, if they are the very element in which you live as much as the fish lives in the sea, then you are the subject of a very wonderful change of heart.”
– Charles Spurgeon
How comely is it for the humble Christian, with his heart full of holy joy and cheerfulness, to enter into his closet and on his knees offer up his heart, a sacrifice, burning in the flame of love.
—Jonathan Edwards
“Even though you fall into sin through the infirmity of your flesh, yet if it causes you intense agony and sorrow it is because God has written his law in your heart.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“The law is fully written on the heart when a man takes pleasure in holiness, and feels a deep pain whenever sin approaches him.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“It is a glorious thing when the heart delights itself in the law of the Lord, and finds therein its solace and pleasure.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“If God is to write the law upon the heart, the heart must be prepared, and in order to being prepared, it must be entirely renewed by a miracle of mercy, such as can only be wrought by that omnipotent hand which made both heaven and earth.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“Married life is not all sugar,
but grace in the heart will keep away most of the sours.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“The devil, the world, and the temptations of life, would soon erase out of the heart all that God had written there if he did not create it anew with the faculty of holding fast that which is good.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“God must melt the heart, must transform it from granite into flesh; and he has the power to do it.”
– Charles Spurgeon
It is true that in addition to God and the devil in our soul there is something else, so terrible that the heart chills, if you open it even a little.
—Taras Shevchenko
“The God who can take away the spots from the leopard, and the blackness from the Ethiopian, can also remove the evil lines which now deface the heart.”
– Charles Spurgeon
I don’t remember who exactly, but some deep heart expert said that the surest measurement of friendship is money. And his statement is fair. A true, true friendship that is only expressed in critical, difficult cases, and even it demands this cold yardstick. The most lively, animated language of friendship is money. And the greater the need, the more sincere the friendship, driving away this hungry witch.
—Taras Shevchenko
“When the heart is fully influenced by God’s Spirit, then the will and the intellect, the memory and the imagination, and everything else which makes up the inward man, comes under cheerful allegiance to the King of kings.”
– Charles Spurgeon
He who has communion with Christ, when he is *highest in duties of sanctification and holiness, is clearest in the apprehension of his own unprofitableness*, and rejects every thought that might arise in his heart of setting is peace in them, or upon them.
—John Owen
He who has communion with Christ, when he is *highest in duties of sanctification and holiness, is clearest in the apprehension of his own unprofitableness*, and rejects every thought that might arise in his heart of setting is peace in them, or upon them.
—John Owen
“You may preach up the anger of God, and the terrors of the world to come, but these do not melt the heart to loyal obedience.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“The sword of justice hath less power over human hearts than the sceptre of mercy.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“This great blessing of pardoned sin is always connected with the renewal of the heart. It is not given because of the change of heart, but it is always given with the change of heart.”
– Charles Spurgeon
His eyes are pleased with the sight of a thankful heart.
—Jonathan Edwards
I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.
—Vincent Van Gogh
I will press forward and labour to know God better, and love him more, assuredly I may, because God will give his Holy Spirit to them that ask him, and the Holy Ghost will shed abroad the love of God in the heart.
—William Wilberforce
I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.
—Vincent Van Gogh