Let God be in all your thoughts, and ye will be men indeed. Let him be your God and your All,—the desire of your eyes, the joy of your heart, and your portion for ever.
—John Wesley
Give your hearts to Him who, together with ten thousand blessings, has given you his Son, his only Son!
—John Wesley
Give Him all your heart! Let all that is within you continually cry out, Thou art my God, and I will thank Thee; Thou art my God, and I will praise Thee.
—John Wesley
O may my time, my fortune, my understanding, and all my talents be more diligently improved, but may the one thing needful be the grand concern with me, and let not my heart be overcharged with lusts of other things.
—William Wilberforce
I humbly trust I have humbled myself before God and come to him through Christ and though my heart be so hard and cold and inconstant yet I will humbly trust that his mercy will be extended, even to me.
—William Wilberforce
I will go to prayer though alas I have no heart for it.
—William Wilberforce
Christianity teaches us not to prize human estimation at a very high rate, and thereby provides for the practice of her injunction, to love from the heart those who, justly or unjustly may have attacked our reputation, and wounded our character.
—William Wilberforce
Help me O God, enable me to turn to thee with my whole heart and to serve thee in newness of nature in Christ.
—William Wilberforce
The Spirit always flashes the beauty of Christ upon the wondering heart, and the awed spirit receives it with a minimum of interference.
—AW Tozer
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
—Cicero
We can best repent our neglect of the Holy Spirit by neglecting Him no more. Let us begin to think of Him as One to be worshiped & obeyed. Let us throw open every door & invite Him in. Let us surrender to Him every room in the temple of our hearts & insist that He enter
—AW Tozer
We must get on our knees before our open Bible & allow the Holy Spirit to break our hearts & create a passion for Christ as we’ve never had
—AW Tozer
A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
—Marcus Aurelius
The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another’s heart.
—Cicero
I stole her heart away and put ice in its place.
—Charles Dickens
A theologian who is acquainted with all the latest issues of his science but who stands speechless at a sickbed and knows no answer to the questions of the lost sinner’s heart isn’t worthy of his title and office.
—Herman Bavinck
In order for our hearts to find rest in God, naturally we must possess some knowledge of him, for the unknown is unloved.
—Herman Bavinck
We pray earnestly, O God, that we may not be found among those with hardened hearts, no longer able to hear Thy voice.
—AW Tozer
For when the sense of religion diminishes, the notion of good and evil is erased, the sense of responsibility and guilt is suppressed, so that passion and lust have free rein and the wickedness of the heart breaks forth openly in the form of shameless evil acts.
—Herman Bavinck
“Emptiness is written upon everyone till the heart comes to its Savior and Lord.”
Oh, methinks, if he would punish me for my sins, it would not wound my heart so deep to offend him: but though I sin continually, yet he continually repeats his kindness to me! Oh, methinks I could bear any sufferings; but how can I bear to grieve and dishonour this blessed God!
—David Brainerd
“Infinite patience! Immeasurable longsuffering! where are ye to be found save in the breast of the Well-beloved? Surely the hoe has spared many of us simply and only because he who is meek and lowly in heart is the gardener.”
– Charles Spurgeon
To forgive doesn’t mean to say, ‘I forgive you,’ but to tear from your heart every reproach and shred of anger against the person who hurt you.
—Leo Tolstoy
Outward sins are sins majoris infamiae, of greatest scandal; but heart sins are oftentimes majoris reatus, sins of greater guilt.
—John Flavel
O my friends, it is not enough that the object of your duties is spiritual, that they respect a holy God or that the matter is spiritual, that you be conversant about holy things; but that the frame of your heart must be spiritual, a heavenly temper of soul is necessary.
—John Flavel
To suffer sin to lodge quietly in the heart, to let thy heart habitually and without control wander from God, is a sad, a dangerous symptom indeed.
—John Flavel
The conscience men make of secret as well as of public duties will tell them what their hearts and graces are, true or false.
—John Flavel
If he (the truly gracious soul) and his God have not met in secret and had some communion in the morning, he sensibly finds it in the deadness and unprofitableness of his heart and life all the day after.
—John Flavel
The engagements of men’s hearts to God in duties will tell them what they are. The hypocrite takes little heed to his heart. They are not afflicted really for the hardness, deadness, unbelief, and wanderings of their hearts in duty as upright ones are.
—John Flavel