Human Heart Quotes - Page 18

• 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 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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• The deepest longing of the human heart is to know and enjoy the glory of God. We were made for this.

  John Piper

  Heart, Longing, Glory

  John Piper (2016). “A Peculiar Glory: How the Christian Scriptures Reveal Their Complete Truthfulness”, p.150, SPCK

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• Heaven's Sovereign saves all beings but himselfThat hideous sight,-a naked human heart.

  Edward Young

  Heart, Sight, Heaven

  Edward Young (1813). “The Complaint; Or, Night Thoughts”, p.51

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• If you do not feel a fervent love and profound pity for humanity, be assured that the gift of Christian eloquence has been denied you. You will not win souls, neither will you acquire that most excellent of earthly sovereignties - sovereignty over human hearts....Love is irresistible.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Christian, Heart, Winning

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• Love for the Lord is not an ethereal, intellectual, dreamlike thing; it is the intensest, most vital, most passionate love of which the human heart is capable.

  Oswald Chambers

  Heart, Intellectual, Passionate

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• More than blood passes through the human heart.

  Marlo Morgan

  Heart, Blood, Humans

  Marlo Morgan (1991). “Mutant message down under”, Bookpeople

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• As no scripture is of private interpretation, so is there no feeling in a human heart which exists in that heart alone - which is not, in some form or degree, in every human heart.

  George MacDonald

  Heart, Feelings, Degrees

  George MacDonald (2007). “Unspoken Sermons”, p.192, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A faerie heart is different from a human heart. Human hearts are elastic. They have room for all sorts of passions, and they can break and heal and love again and again. Faerie hearts are evolutionarily less sophisticated. They are small and hard, like tiny grains of sand. Our hearts are too small to love more than one person in a lifetime.

  Tink

  Passion, Heart, And Love

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• ...the word that seems best to summarize the desire of the human heart is 'communion.' ...wherever we look it is communion that we seek.

  Henri Nouwen

  Heart, Desire, Looks

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• All religions are essentially the same in their goal of developing a good human heart so that we may become better human beings.

  Dalai Lama

  Heart, Goal, May

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way.

  George W. Bush

  Wall, Heart, Law

  United Nations General Assembly Address, delivered 21 September 2004, New York, NY

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• Taboos on the human heart are more dangerous than any risk we run by using our emotions. Sensation is the life of man; it is his actual energy. To suppress it is to lose creative power!

  Phyllis Bottome

  Running, Heart, Men

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• Conscience, that vicegerent of God in the human heart, whose "still small voice" the loudest revelry cannot drown.

  William Henry Harrison

  Heart, Voice, Revelry

  William Henry Harrison (1833). “Christmas tales, historical and domestic”, p.187

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• A human heart is a skein of such imperceptibly and subtly interwoven threads that even the owner of it is often himself at a loss how to unravel it.

  Giovanni Ruffini

  Heart, Loss, Owners

  Giovanni Ruffini (1857). “Doctor Antonio: a tale of Italy”, p.299

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• we don't have to agree with each other in order to think well together. There is no need for us to be joined at the head. We are joined by our human hearts.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Heart, Thinking, Order

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2002). “Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future”, p.37, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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

  Fredrika Bremer

  Heart, Angel, Heaven

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