Human Heart Quotes - Page 9

• What is your ambition in life today? Is it to get rich? Is it to make a name for yourself? Is it even to do some wonderful thing for God? Listen to me, beloved. The highest desire that can possess any human heart is a longing to see God.

  J. Vernon McGee

  Heart, Ambition, Names

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• One of the greatest accomplishments in this world would be that of lifting human hearts. Blessed are they who are kind and considerate of the feelings of other people.

  Richard L. Evans

  Blessed, Heart, People

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• I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casual, nondiscriminato ry "making out" and "sleeping around," we forfeit something we cannot well do without. There is dullness, monotony, sheer boredom in all of life when virginity and purity are no longer protected and prized.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Sex, Sleep, Heart

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• How silently, how silently The wonderous gift is given! So God imparts to human hearts The blessings of his heaven. No ear may hear his coming, But in this world of sin, Where meek souls will receive him still, The dear Christ enters in.

  Phillips Brooks

  Heart, Blessing, Heaven

  Phillips Brooks, H. L. S., L. H. S. (1892). “Phillips Brooks Year Book: Selections from the Writings of the Rt. Rev. Phillips Brooks”

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• Such is the grasping tendency of the human heart, that it must have a something to lay hold of - and which, if wrested away without the substitution of another something in its place, would leave a void and a vacancy as painful to the mind, as hunger is to the natural system.... The heart must have something to cling to.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Heart, Mind, Vacancy

  Thomas Chalmers (1855). “Sermons: Select Works”, p.250

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• The human heart was such a complex organ, fragile and sturdy all at once.

  Susan Wiggs

  Heart, Sturdy, Organs

  Susan Wiggs (2008). “Just Breathe”, p.467, MIRA

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• The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.

  Alfred de Vigny

  Heart, Progress, Analysis

  Alfred de Vigny (1923). “Cinq Mars”

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• It is better to go down on the great seas which human hearts were made to sail than to rot at the wharves in ignoble anchorage.

  Hamilton Wright Mabie

  Heart, Sea, Made

  Hamilton Wright Mabie (1893). “My Study Fire”

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• It is destiny phrase of the weak human heart! 'It is destiny' dark apology for every error! The strong and virtuous admit no destiny

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Strong, Heart, Apology

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• Only the human heart can live in present moment awareness. The human mind cannot, because its essential nature is to ponder the past and plan the future. This is why all wise beings encourage us to go beyond the mind into the timeless, boundless transcendence of heart-centered awareness.

  David Simon

  Wise, Heart, Past

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• What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it

  Thomas Carlyle

  Memories, Lying, Heart

  Thomas Carlyle (1841). “On Heroes, Hero-Worship,&the Heroic in History. Six Lectures. Reported with emendations and additions”, p.41

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• Think in the name of Almighty God. We must first have a worldwide awakening of the public conscience, a spiritual revival, a moral regeneration, before there can be permanent peace and real economic recovery. To this end we do not need new laws, but a new spirit; we do not need a change of government, but a change of the human heart. There can be no peace, there will be no recovery without it. Therefore, with a change of heart, let's all make a new start.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  God, Spiritual, Real

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• Men will argue more philosophically about the human heart; but women will read the heart of man better than they.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Heart, Men, Arguing

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• But just as nature abhors a vacuum -- so does the human heart.

  Jojo Moyes

  Heart, Vacuums, Doe

  Jojo Moyes (2010). “The Last Letter from Your Lover”, p.322, Hachette UK

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• Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon exact science, put away his scholar's gown, bid farewell to his study, and wander with human heart through the world.

  Carl Jung

  Farewell, Heart, Psychology

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• It is the normal state of the human heart to try to build its identity around something besides God.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Heart, Trying, Identity

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• I'm a student of violence because I'm a student of the human heart.

  Sam Peckinpah

  Heart, Violence, Students

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• The warm and radiant yes of the heart is perfect, like the sun, in bringing all things to life and nourishing all that is truly human.

  John Welwood

  Heart, Perfect, Sun

  John Welwood (2005). “Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships: Healing the Wound of the Heart”, p.1, Shambhala Publications

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• There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.

  Cynthia Hand

  Heart, Complexity, Humans

  Cynthia Hand (2012). “Hallowed”, p.20, Egmont UK

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• Beauty is like a train that ceaselessly roars out of the Gare de Lyon and which I know will never leave, which has not left. It consists of jolts and shocks, many of which do not have much importance, but which we know are destined to produce one Shock, which does...The human heart, beautiful as a seismograph...Beauty will be CONVULSIVE or will not be at all.

  Andre Breton

  Beautiful, Heart, Doe

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• At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.

  Simone Weil

  Heart, World, Longing

  Simone Weil, Janet Patricia Little (2003). “Simone Weil on Colonialism: An Ethic of the Other”, p.21, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Can human hearts be changed? Why, of course! It happens every day in the great missionary work of the Church. It is one of the most widespread of Christ’s modern miracles. If it hasn't happened to you—it should.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Heart, Miracle, Church

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. Beauty, like truth, brings joy to the human heart, and is that precious fruit which resists the erosion of time, which unites generations and enables them to be one in admiration. And all this through the work of your hands . . . Remember that you are the custodians of beauty in the world.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Heart, Hands, Order

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• In every human heart is a place where you put all your broken dreams. When something doesn't work out, no matter what it may be, you just have to give it up and stuff it in with your broken dreams. And make sure you keep the lid on tight.

  Sayo Masuda

  Dream, Heart, Broken

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• What a lovely place this world would be if only people would feel affection for everyone else, and all the ugliness of the human heart were to vanish - our envy of those better off than ourselves and our scorn for those worse off.

  Sayo Masuda

  Heart, Envy, People

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