Human Heart Quotes - Page 17

• The hardness of the human heart makes no sense.

  Rob Bell

  Heart, Hardness, Humans

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• The most important principle of divine philosophy is the oneness of the world of humanity, the unity of mankind, the bond conjoining East and West, the tie of love which blends human hearts.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Love, Philosophy, Heart

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• There is no passion of the human heart that promises so much and pays so little as revenge.

  Josh Billings

  Revenge, Passion, Heart

  Josh Billings (1913). “Wit and Wisdom of Josh Billings [pseud.]: Choice Bits of Fun and Philosophy of the Great Humorist Carefully Collected and Revised”

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• Society is the true sphere of human virtue. In social, active life, difficulties will perpetually be met with; restraints of many kinds will be necessary; and studying to behave right in respect of these is a discipline of the human heart, useful to others, and improving to itself. Suffering is no duty, but where it is necessary to avoid guilt, or to do good; nor pleasure a crime, but where it strengthens the influence of bad inclinations, or lessens the generous activity of virtue.

  Elizabeth Carter

  Heart, Discipline, Suffering

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1806). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes ...”, p.259

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• O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!

  Virgil

  Philosophical, Heart, Gold

  Virgil (2004). “The Aeneid”, p.61, Collector's Library

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• There are two different stories in horror: internal and external. In external horror films, the evil comes from the outside, the other tribe, this thing in the darkness that we don't understand. Internal is the human heart.

  John Carpenter

  Heart, Two, Evil

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• It begins here, and has no end, and no earthly power can coerce it; and it is to be found in the human heart.

  Tito Colliander

  Heart, Asceticism, Ends

  Tito Colliander (1982). “Way of the Ascetics: The Ancient Tradition of Discipline and Inner Growth”, p.8, St Vladimir's Seminary Press

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• One thing it makes me realize is just how similar we all are, around the globe. The details may be different, but every human heart is touched by themes like hope, comfort and mercy.

  Matt Redman

  Heart, Comfort, Details

  "A conversation with worship leader Matt Redman". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. September 21, 2011.

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• Nothing but real love--(how rare it is; has one human heart in a million ever known it?) nothing but real love can repay us for the loss of freedom--the cares and fears of poverty--the cold pity of the world that we both despise and respect.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Love, Real, Heart

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• The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear ducts and the nape of the neck and to make a person feel something about the characters are going through and to experience the moral paradoxes and struggles of being human.

  Tim O'Brien

  Struggle, Heart, Character

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• There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.

  Patrick Campbell, 3rd Baron Glenavy

  Heart, Bridges, Grace

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• Ambition is one of the ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable.

  John Adams

  Passion, Heart, Ambition

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• One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.

  Ida Tarbell

  Memories, Heart, Noble

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• Lawyers must pry into the recesses of the human heart, and become well acquainted with the whole moral world, that they may discover the abstract reason of all laws.

  Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

  Heart, Law, World

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• Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.

  Walter Scott

  Spring, Heart, Heaven

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• The widest thing in the universe is not space; it is the
  potential capacity of the human heart. Being made in the image of God, it is
  capable of almost unlimited extension in all directions. And one of the world's
  greatest tragedies is that we allow our hearts to shrink until there is room in
  them for little besides ourselves.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Heart, Space, Tragedy

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• The human heart is like heaven; the more angels the more room.

  Fredrika Bremer

  Heart, Angel, Heaven

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• If you should take the human heart and listen to it, it would be like listening to a sea-shell; you would hear in it the hollow murmur of the infinite ocean to which it belongs, from which it draws its profoundest inspiration, and for which it yearns.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Ocean, Inspiration, Heart

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• there comes a time when ambition ceases to burn, or romance to stir, and the highest cry of the human heart is for peace.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Heart, Ambition, Romance

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1957). “The Mary Roberts Rinehart crime book”

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• What a proof of the Divine tenderness is there in the human heart itself, which is the organ and receptacle oft so many sympathies! When we consider how exquisite are those conditions by which it is even made capable of so much suffering--the capabilities of a child's heart, of a mother's heart,--what must be the nature of Him who fashioned its depths, and strung its chords.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Mother, Children, Heart

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• Of the total creative effort represented in a finished work, 75 percent or more of a writer's labor goes into designing the story designing story tests the maturity and insight of the writer, his knowledge of society, nature, and the human heart.  Story demands both vivid imagination and powerful analytic thought.

  Robert McKee

  Powerful, Heart, Maturity

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• Let it never be forgotten that, although we may do nothing about the Word we hear, the Word will do something to us.
  The same sun melts ice and hardens clay, and the Word of God humbles or hardens the human heart.

  Vance Havner

  Heart, Ice, Clay

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• Without constraint, without any form of mental compulsion, the act of belief becomes the freest possible projection of what resides in our hearts. Like the poet's image of a church bell that reveals its latent music only when struck, or a dragonfly that flames forth its beauty only in flight, so does the content of a human heart lie buried until action calls it forth. The greatest act of self-revelation occurs when we choose what we will believe, in that space of freedom that exists between knowing that a thing is and knowing that a thing is not.

  Terryl L. Givens

  Lying, Believe, Heart

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• Things are never simple when it comes to the human heart.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Heart, Simple, Humans

  "‘Community’ Season 4: Gillian Jacobs Talks Creative Changes, ‘Freaky Friday’ Episode And Renewal Chances". Interview with Laura Prudom, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.

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• The greatest progress we have made, and the greatest progress we have yet to make, is in the human heart. In the end, all the world's wealth and a thousand armies are no match for the strength and decency of the human spirit.

  William J. Clinton

  Heart, Army, Progress

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