“Let us believe great things from the work of Christ by his Spirit in the midst of his people’s hearts, and we shall not be disappointed.”
Love guards the heart from the abyss.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.
—Charles Dickens
The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible.
God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.
—Seneca
Every time you judge yourself you break your own heart.
– Swami Kripalvauanda
Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.
—William Shakespeare
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
—Charles Darwin
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.
—William Shakespeare
Read the heart and not the letter for the pen cannot draw near the good intent.
—Michelangelo
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death
—Leonardo Da Vinci
There is a wisdom of the head, and… there is a wisdom of the heart.
—Charles Dickens
“Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.”
—Henry Ward Beecher
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
—Plato
Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
—Plato
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men.
We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
—Immanuel Kant
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
—Aristotle
It’s not fun to live in the world,
If the heart has no one to love.
—Taras Shevchenko
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.
—Charles Dickens
‘Tis not a vain thing to praise him. We cannot spend time better for our souls. It doth good to the heart in that manner to be lifted up unto God.
—Jonathan Edwards
The noble heart finds most in starlike eyes.
—Michelangelo
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
—Charles Dickens
Be deeply sensible of your own weaknesses, follies, and imperfections; as well as of the sin remaining in your heart, and cleaving to all your words and actions. And let this spirit appear in all you speak or do: Be clothed with humility.
—John Wesley
O for a love, for burning love
Like fervent flame of fire;
O for a love, for yearning love,
Love that will never tire;
Lord, in my need I appeal to Thee,
Grant me now my heart’s desire.
—Amy Carmichael
The more we grow in grace, the more do we see of the desperate wickedness of our heart.
—John Wesley
Let love not visit you as a transient guest, but be the constant ruling temper of your soul. See that your heart be filled at all times and on all occasions with real, undissembled benevolence; not to those only that love you, but to every soul of man.
—John Wesley
Is it misery to love God? To give Him my heart who alone is worthy of it? Nay, it is the truest happiness; indeed, the only true happiness which is to be found under the sun.
—John Wesley
In this season of much singing, I ask those who love our Lord Jesus to ask very specially for singing hearts. It would be sad if the lovely Christmas hymns and carols sounded only like a noise—even a noise of music—to Him.
—Amy Carmichael