The Human Heart Quotes
He had divested himself of the little cloaked godlet and his other amulets in a place where they would not be found in his lifetime and he'd taken for talisman the simple human heart within him.
The reactions of the human heart are not mechanical and predictable but infinitely subtle and delicate.
Sometimes it seemed that the human heart, this side of Eden, feared life more than death, light more than darkness, freedom more than surrender.
God, what a world, if men in street and mart felt that same kinship of the human heart which makes them, in the face of fire and flood, rise to the meaning of true brotherhood.
An ear can break a human heart As quickly as a spear, We wish the ear had not a heart So dangerously near.
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.
In the human heart one generation of passions follows another; from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next.
In the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another.
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.
I am persuaded that there is no affection of the human heart more exquisitely pure, than that which is felt by a grateful son towards a mother.
...the word that seems best to summarize the desire of the human heart is 'communion.' ...wherever we look it is communion that we seek.
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.
A millstone and the human heart are driven ever round, If they have nothing else to grind, they must themselves be ground.
There is no iron that can enter the human heart with such stupefying effect, as a period placed at just the right moment.
The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart.
All those moments, those memories. Everything that we are, compressed in just two or three kilos of paper — the weight of a human heart.
After the destructionofthe Second Temple Jewslived by an ancient and fundamental insight, that God does not live in buildings but in the human heart.
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.
To enter into the hearts of men belongs to him who can explore the human heart.
A human heart can never grow old if it takes a lively interest in the pairing of birds, the reproduction of flowers, and the changing tints of autumn leaves.
... there are chords in every human heart. If we only knew how to strike the right chord, we would bring out the music.
Yes, we see that there are problems in the world. But we believe in a universal force that, when activated by the human heart, has the power to make all things right.
I believe there is an evolutionary impulse toward good that is etched on every human heart. It is placed there by the hand of God.
Relational trust is built on movements of the human heart such as empathy, commitment, compassion, patience, and the capacity to forgive.
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!
For by his incarnation the Son of God united himself in a certain way with every man. He labored with human hands... and loved with a human heart. Born of Mary the Virgin, he truly became one of us.
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.
The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live.
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!
For compassion a human heart suffices, but for full and adequate sympathy, with joy, an angel's only.
Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices.
there's nothing in the human heart or mind, no place no matter how twisted or secret, that can't be endured - if you have someone to share it with.
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.
Drifting off to sleep, I thought about her. How nobody is perfect. How you just have to close your eyes and breathe out and let the puzzle of the human heart be what it is.
