Heart Quotes - Page 101

Grace will expose the deepest issues of your heart, then point you to the Cross which covers everything that's been exposed.

By the wood-shed is a brook. It goes singing on. Its joy-song does sing in my heart.

In life you make the small decisions with your head and the big decisions with your heart.

If your heart is large enough to envelop your adversaries, you can see right through them and avoid their attacks. And once you envelop them, you will be able to guide them along the path indicated to you by heaven and earth.

Love demands patience, desire is restless; What color shall I paint the heart, until you savage it? You shall not ignore me when the time comes, I know, but I may turn to dust before the news reaches you.

Creating relationship is the heart of acting. It is basic. It is essential.

Faith is the yes of the heart.

Being in grief, it turns out, is not unlike being in love. In both states, the imagination's entirely occupied with one person. The beloved dwells at the heart of the world, and becomes a Rome: the roads of feeling all lead to him, all proceed from him. Everything that touches us seems to relate back to that center: there is no other emotional life, no place outside the universe of feeling centered on its pivotal figure.

But above all preserve peace of heart. This is more valuable than any treasure.

My greatest happiness is to be before the Blessed Sacrament, where my heart is, as it were, in Its center.

Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little, example by example, permits us to see that what is most important to our heart, or to our mind, is learned not by reasoning but through other agencies. Then it is that the intellect, observing their superiority, abdicates its control to them upon reasoned grounds and agrees to become their collaborator and lackey.

To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.

A perfect mind comes from a perfect heart, not the heart known by a doctor's stethoscope but the heart which is the seat of God.

The old Lakota was wise. He knew that a man's heart away from nature becomes hard.

In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of women. It shall be the business of my life to deepen this disappointment in every woman's heart until she bows down to it no longer.

Since someone ate crabs, others must have eaten spiders as well. However, they were not tasty. So afterwards, people stopped eating them. These people also deserve our heartfelt gratitude.

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.

When you are born, your work is placed in your heart.

May my heart be kind, my mind fierce, and my spirit brave.

Christmas is ... a time to mark our progress through this earthly journey. Every December we can look back and marvel at the designs of God and realize how very little we are in control of the events that shaped the past year. Then, with hearts full, look to the celebration of that silent, holy night, and all its certainty. Because of Christmas, this we know: Christ was born for us. He is love, and the plans he has for us always surpass those of our own.

Don't open your diamonds in a vegetable market. Tie them in bundle and keep them in your heart, and go your own way.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

Someone once told me a story about long term relationships. To think of them as a continent to explore. I could spend a lifetime backpacking through Africa, and I would still never know all there is to know about that continent. To stay the course, to stay intentional, to stay curious and connected - that's the heart of it. But it's so easy to lose track of the trail, to get tired, to want to give up, or to want a new adventure. It can be so easy to lose sight of the goodness and mystery within the person sitting right in front of you.

Love is the fart Of every heart It pains the man when 'tis kept close, And others doth offend, when 'tis let loose.

We abandon the most important journey of our lives when we abandon desire. We leave our hearts by the side of the road and head off in the direction of fitting in, getting by, being productive, what have you. Whatever we might gain – money, position, the approval of others, or just absence of the discontent self – it’s not worth it.