Quotes About The Human Heart

#1. Eucharistic worship is not so much worship of the inaccessible transcendence as worship of the divine condescension, and it is also the merciful and redeeming transformation of the world in the human heart

Pope John Paul II

#2. Memory, with its fugitive adjustments, is the merciful veil to the grim enactments of the first law. It hides the anguish in the human heart which is always craving for perpetuity.

Stacy Aumonier

#3. I am bound to the doctrine of the depravity of the human heart, because I find myself depraved in heart, and have daily proofs that in my flesh there dwelleth no good thing.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#4. His (Christ's) appearance in our midst has made it undeniably clear that changing the human heart and changing human society are not separate tasks, but are as interconnected as the two beams of the cross.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#5. If anything in the universe reflects the fingerprint of God, it is the human heart" ... It derives no benefit from the blood it pumps making it the most unselfish of organs ... it is also the most courageous and faithful." (124, 126) - Reese

Charles Martin

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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#7. Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the toughfibre of the human heart. The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. The deepest problems of the human race are spiritual in nature. They are rooted in man's refusal to seek God's way for his life. The problem is the human heart, which God alone can change.

Billy Graham

#9. Zelmo was nearly bellowing by the time he raised his glass to the tables center. 'To the human heart!' Diners at other tables glanced to see what was the matter.

Jonathan Lethem

#10. The human heart is the same the world over.

Billy Graham

#11. It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart

John Knowles

#12. Whenever God touches sin it is independence that is touched, an that awakens resentment in the human heart. Independence must be blasted clean out, there must be no such thing left, only freedom which is very different. Freedom is the ability not to insist on my rights, but to see that God gets his

Oswald Chambers

#13. The human heart, as of course we all know is essentially good

Charles Bukowski

#14. The human heart is made from the only substance in the universe that can become stronger, after it's been broken.

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#15. There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.

Simone Weil

#16. I carry my own church about under my own hat," said I. "Bricks and mortar won't make a staircase to heaven. I believe with your Master that the human heart is the best temple.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#17. The battle would not take place in the mountains, valleys, or plains of Israel. It would take place in the wilderness of the human heart.

Francine Rivers

#18. There is a cowardly propensity in the human heart that delights in oppressing somebody else, and in the gratification of this base desire we always select a victim that can be outraged with safety.

James T. Rapier

#19. Criticism will plant FEAR in the human heart, or resentment, but it will not build love or affection.

Napoleon Hill

#20. Even the human heart is slightly left of centre.

Northrop Frye

#21. There is so much stubborn hope in the human heart.

Albert Camus

#22. One night, Tess finds me sobbing during the health segment of the evening news. Scientists have discovered scarred cells from cardiac arrest fall away over time, and she can't understand how sadly hopeful that is. To me, it means that the human heart has the capacity to heal itself.

Koren Zailckas

#23. do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success. - NIKOLA TESLA, 1896, INVENTOR OF ALTERNATING CURRENT

Ray Kurzweil

#24. Ray Bradbury was the first author that I was really exposed to back in grade school. I'm a big Philip K. Dick fan, but the emotion and humanity that Bradbury brings to his stories and the way he uses sci-fi to get at the human heart is something that's unique and for me incredibly influential.

Rian Johnson

#25. Hell lies at the bottom of the human heart.

Ross Macdonald

#26. All good government must begin at home. It is useless to make good laws for bad people; what is wanted is this, to subdue the tyranny of the human heart.

Hugh Reginald Haweis

#27. A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman's heart in particular.

Mikhail Lermontov

#28. The simplistic solutions of Deepak Chopra cannot stand against the lofty and deep teachings of Jesus Christ. Only in His answers will we find the ultimate hope for the human heart.

Ravi Zacharias

#29. No matter how much light I carry within me, there will always be times of feeling lost, being confused, seeking direction. It is the way of the human heart.

Joyce Rupp

#30. Architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. Creative work is expressed in our time as a union of technology and humanity.

Kenzo Tange

#31. Intensely moving but never sentimental, Academy Street is a profound meditation on what Faulkner called 'the human heart in conflict with itself'. In Tess Lohan, Mary Costello has created one of the most fully realized characters in contemporary fiction. What a marvel of a book.

Ron Rash

#32. 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

#33. God preserve us from writers who regurgitate what they have learnt from books! It is people's secrets we want to know - it is the natural history of the human heart that we have been trying to put down for a thousand years and everyone must and can leave their contribution.

August Strindberg

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

William Henry Harrison

#35. The complexity of economics can be calculated mathematically. Write out the algebraic equation that is the human heart and multiply each unknown by the population of the world.

P. J. O'Rourke

#36. A person's words reflect the image of his character and the amount of truth and lies in it is always visible to the human heart than ordinary eyes.

Anuj

#37. Not until the human heart is stolid to poetry, the human eye blind to beauty, not until the intellect ceases its quest for truth and conscience finds its quietus either in universal defeat or in triumphant success, will organized religion cease to be.

Jenkin Lloyd Jones

#38. The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#39. On the deepest level, problems such as war and starvation are not solved by economics and politics alone. Their source is prejudice and fear in the human heart - and their solution also lies in the human heart.

Joseph Goldstein

#40. How much the more in judging of the human heart should we distrust all fashionable airs and graces, all tricks and smartness, learnt only to please the outward gaze

Murasaki Shikibu

#41. The human heart
Is unknowable.
But in my birthplace
The flowers still smell
The same as always.

Rumer Godden

#42. If we do not appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the human heart, how can we appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the natural world?

Sakyong Mipham

#43. The human heart in its perversity finds it hard to escape hatred and revenge.

Moshe Chaim Luzzatto

#44. In the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#45. The veneration of Mary is inscribed in the very depths of the human heart

Martin Luther

#46. The human heart ... tells us that we are more alike than we are unalike.

Maya Angelou

#47. The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.

Maria Edgeworth

#48. Stories matter. We are composed of our stories. The human heart is made of the words we put in it. If someone ever says mean things to you, don't let those words go into your heart, and be careful not to put mean words in other people's hearts.

Susan Abulhawa

#49. You can deal with the brain, as I say; it looks sensible, whereas the heart, the human heart, I'm afraid, looks a fucking mess.

Julian Barnes

#50. The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it's been broken into a million pieces.

Robert James Waller

#51. Henry James's definition of the purpose of a novel: To help the human heart to know itself.

P.D. James

#52. The greatest mystery of all is the human heart,

P.D. James

#53. The hardness of the human heart makes no sense.

Rob Bell

#54. The human heart is like a big mess of embroidery silks, and the more you pull, the more they tangle. The thing is, the threads have only got one end, if that. You can't sort them all out into colors. You just pick the ones you want and hold one to them as best you can.

Rose Lerner

#55. What pity that Religion and Love, which heighten our relish for the things of both worlds, should ever run the human heart into enthusiasm, superstition, or uncharitableness!

Samuel Richardson

#56. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite ... Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished.

Nelson Mandela

#57. The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye) ...

C.S. Lewis

#58. Take your time in everything, until you feel the pull within yourself. Do not let yourself be guided by fear, or even by desire. And certainly not by the will of others ... Like the moon and the tides, the human heart has many phases. Wait for them. They will not be rushed.

Jenny White

#59. If you can orbit the planet, why can't you see
what makes the human heart happy?
Is it art or is it sex?
Or is it, as I suspect, just keeping going
from next thing to next thing
to next thing to next thing
to next to next to next to next
pulsating stupidly to outlast time?

Dan Chiasson

#60. That's the wonderful thing about the human heart, there's room enough for all kinds of love.

Heather Gudenkauf

#61. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart.

Kenzo Tange

#62. The human heart is hard to grasp.

Bo Caldwell

#63. No one's hurt is too small, no worry too removed, no blessing so elusive that it cannot be seen by the eyes in the back of the human heart.

Jerry Spinelli

#64. You may study the bodies of the living and the dead for clues about the mechanism of the muscles, the bones, and even the brain, but you can never unravel the mystery of the human heart ...

Fiona Paul

#65. Among the sins to which the human heart is prone, hardly any other is more hateful to God than idolatry, for idolatry is at bottom a libel on His character. The

A.W. Tozer

#66. Who we are is not a question we can ask without seeking to understand the context in which we live. Biblical counselors seek to understand the influences that shape the responses of the human heart.

James MacDonald

#67. The human heart is not yet so corroded that it can read off the extinction of these two men without a shock to the very roots of its belief in justice and humanity.

Katherine Anne Porter

#68. I am speaking from experience when I say that forgiveness offered - especially when so undeserved - cuts chains off the human heart that no other power in any universe anywhere can rattle much less break.

Charles Martin

#69. With some people it makes a regular battlefield of the human heart - this struggle for self-expression," said Philip. "You are going to do beautiful work in the world, and do it well.

Gene Stratton-Porter

#70. From morning till night, sounds drift from the kitchen, most of them familiar and comforting ... On days when warmth is the most important need of the human heart, the kitchen is the place you can find it; it dries the wet sock, it cools the hot little brain.

E.B. White

#71. Repentance is something that is brought about in the human heart by the work of God the Holy Spirit.

R.C. Sproul

#72. The reformer," Douglass explained in 1883, had "a difficult and disagreeable task before him. He has to part with old friends; break away from the beaten paths of society, and advance against the vehement protests of the most sacred sentiments of the human heart.

James Oakes

#73. The human heart is a factory of idols ... Everyon e of us is, from his mother's womb, expert in inventing idols.

John Calvin

#74. The two fortresses which are the last to yield in the human heart, are hope and pride.

Lewis Howard Latimer

#75. If we're really writing, we are exploring the unnamed emotional facets of the human heart. Not all emotions, not all states of mind have been named. Nor are all the names we have been given always accurate.

Ron Carlson

#76. Some people say that our salvation lies with God, or with God's Son, yet is not the human heart the place where such Divinity is found? Therefore open your heart, and open TO your heart, that you may hear its call to reflect, to be meek, and to be responsible.

Neale Donald Walsch

#77. How could the human heart hold within its chambers at the same moment such grand measures of nobility and baseness? He wrote in his notebook: Indians at Omaha station: I am ashamed for this thing we call civilization.

Nancy Horan

#78. 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

#79. Ah, merciless Love, is there any length to which you cannot force the human heart to go?

Virgil

#80. The human heart is no small thing, for it can embrace so much.

Origen

#81. The human heart finds nowhere shelter but in human kind.

George Eliot

#82. Every so often we hear people clamor for a change. Let's change the Constitution, change the form of Government, change everything for better or worse except to change the only thing that needs changing first: The human heart and our standard of success and human values.

William J.H. Boetcker

#83. Seeds of destruction take root in the human heart, and even among those who long for peace, they call to our darker instincts and urge us to violence.:

Victoria Armour-Hileman

#84. When one is giving service for the advancement of humanity, when one is working without money and without price, with no hope of earthly reward, there comes a real, genuine joy into the human heart.

Heber J. Grant

#85. Love is both a principle and an emotion; it is something both felt and willed. It is capable of almost infinite degrees. Love in the human heart may begin so modestly as to be hardly perceptible and go on to become a raging torrent that sweeps its possessor before it in total helplessness.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#86. The human heart becomes softened by hearing of instances of gentleness and consideration.

Plutarch

#87. I was struck, as always, that a heathen poet from long ago should know so much of the human heart, and how little that heart changes, though great cities fall and new dispensations sweep away the old and pagan creeds.

Geraldine Brooks

#88. 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

#89. No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.

Abraham Verghese

#90. When it came to the dark fuckery of the human heart, there seemed to be no limit.

Stephen King

#91. But Harry knew now that love was a soldier. It can invade the human heart. Build canopies through jungles. Scale castle walls. Cross moats. Love can probably walk on water.

Cathie Pelletier

#92. I can see through the human heart, and I know that life's biggest prize is to have the day before you as yours alone to do with as you wish.

Morrissey

#93. The human heart has a staggering capacity for love.

Helen Beardsley

#94. What a ruler has to rely upon is only the human heart. Human hearts are to the ruler what roots are to a tree, what oil is to a lamp, water to fish, fields to a farmer, or money to a merchant.

Su Shi

#95. Civilization has provided no peace, no spectacle, no assurance to the human heart which can transcend the simple, ever-changing, matchless beauty and peace of the natural world

Harvey Broome

#96. Wise leaders should have known that the human heart cannot exist in a vacuum. If Christians are forbidden to enjoy the wine of the Spirit they will turn to the wine of the flesh ... Christ died for our hearts and the Holy Spirit wants to come and satisfy them.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#97. Wakefulness is not a destination but a song the human heart keeps singing, the way birds keep singing at the first sign of light.

Mark Nepo

#98. There is only one way into the Kingdom of Heaven, but there are many ways into the human heart: and the Church of Christ, ln its mission of promulgating truth and turning souls of righteousness, has legitimate use for every avenue of the heart.

Orson F. Whitney

#99. Wealth and want equally harden the human heart.

Theodore Parker

#100. The human heart as modern civilization has made it is more prone to hatred than to friendship. And it is prone to hatred because it is dissatisfied.

Bertrand Russell