God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. The lips that uttered them may be closed to death, the heart that felt them may have ceased to beat, but the prayers live before God, and God’s heart is set on them and prayers outlive the lives of those who uttered them; they outlive a generation, outlive an age, outlive a world.
– E.M. Bounds
Prayer | Life | The Heart
I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let’s face it, friends make life a lot more fun.
– Chuck Swindoll
Friendship | The HeartJoy
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
– Blaise Pascal
Truth | The Heart
Time is the brush of God, as he paints his masterpiece on the heart of humanity.
– Ravi Zacharias
Time | The Heart
God sees hearts as we see faces.
– George Herbert
GodThe Heart
To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God’s responses.
– Charles Stanley
Prayer | The Heart
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
– Assorted Authors
Christmas | The Heart
The man or woman who does not know God demands an infinite satisfaction from other human beings which they cannot give, and in the case of the man, he becomes tyrannical and cruel. It springs from this one thing, the human heart must have satisfaction, but there is only one Being who can satisfy the last abyss of the human heart, and that is the Lord Jesus Christ.
– Oswald Chambers
The Heart | Jesus | Satisfaction
There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.
– Blaise Pascal
God | The Heart
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart. Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
– Hannah More
Forgiveness | The Heart
We had long known the Lord without realizing that meekness and lowliness of heart should be the distinguishing feature of the disciple.
– Andrew Murray
Humility | Meekness | The Heart
Give me five minutes with a person’s checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is.
– Billy Graham
Finances | The Heart
It is not the body’s posture, but the heart’s attitude that counts when we pray.
– Billy Graham
Prayer | Attitude | The Heart
Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.
– Billy Graham
Anger | Apathy | The Heart
When a man argues for victory and not for truth, he is sure of just one ally that is the devil. Not the defeat of the intellect, but the acceptance of the heart is the only true object in fighting with the sword of the spirit.
– George Macdonald
Victory | Truth | The Heart
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.
– Helen Keller
Contentment | Beauty | The Heart
Nine-tenths of the difficulties are overcome when our hearts are ready to do the Lord’s will, whatever it may be. When one is truly in this state, it is usually but a little way to the knowledge of what His will is.
– George Mueller
Obedience | The Heart | Overcoming
When the heart full of God’s love can draw on the mind full of God’s word, timely blessings flow from the mouth.
– John Piper
The Heart | Scripture | The Tongue
Thou who has given so much to me, give one thing more: a grateful heart.
– George Herbert
Gratitude | The Heart
Christianity is not just repeating John 3:16 or Acts 16:31; it is yielding the heart and the life to Christ.
– Harry Ironside
Christianity | The Heart
Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure; Where your treasure is, there is your heart; Where your heart is, there is your happiness.
– Augustine
Wealth | The Heart | Happiness
You must keep all earthy treasures out of your heart, and let Christ be your treasure, and let Him have your heart.
– Charles Spurgeon
The Heart
And as the circumcised in the flesh, and not in the heart, have no part in God’s good promises; even so they that be baptized in the flesh, and not in heart, have no part in Christ’s blood.
– William Tyndale
Salvation | The Heart
God is the shaper of your heart. God does not display his work in abstract terms. He prefers the concrete, and this means that at the end of your life one of three things will happen to your heart: it will grow hard, it will be broken, or it will be tender. Nobody escapes.
– Ravi Zacharias
God | Life | The Heart
Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of Man.
– Francis Bacon
Atheism | The Heart
Sweet shall be your rest if your heart does not reproach you.
– Thomas a Kempis
Conscience | Rest | The Heart
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
– Blaise Pascal
Reasoning | The Heart
He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart.
– C.S. Lewis
Lust | The Heart
Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake.
– John Bunyan
The Holy Spirit | The Heart
A divided heart loses both worlds.
– A. B. Simpson
Hypocrisy | The Heart
The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious.
– Martin Luther
Giving | The Heart
God loves with a great love the man whose heart is bursting with a passion for the impossible.
– William Booth
Faith | The Heart
God loves a broken heart, not a divided heart.
– Thomas Watson
The Heart
There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.
– Blaise Pascal
Holiness | The Heart
Without the heart it is not worship; it is a stage play; an acting a part without being that person really a hypocrite. We may truly be said to worship God-though we lack perfection; but we cannot be said to worship Him if we lack sincerity.
– Stephen Charnock
The Heart | Worship | Hypocrisy
Better a shattered heart than a hardened heart.
– Woodrow Kroll
The Heart
Where love is the compelling power, there is no sense of strain or conflict or bondage in doing what is right: the man or woman who is compelled by Jesus’ love and empowered by His Spirit does the will of God from the heart.
– F.F. Bruce
Love | The Heart
All the danger is when the world gets into the heart. The water is useful for the sailing of the ship; all the danger is when the water gets into the ship; so the fear is when the world gets into the heart.
– Thomas Watson
Apathy | The Heart
To meet Jesus is to look yourself in the pocketbook, which is the most unmistakable way of looking yourself in the heart.
– Assorted Authors
Finances | The Heart
We must not trust our heart at any time; even when it speaks most fair, we must call it liar; and when it pretends to the most good, still we must remember its nature, for it is evil, and that continually.
– Charles Spurgeon
The Heart
The Gospel, if it is really believed, removes neediness – the need to be constantly respected, appreciated, and well regarded; the need to have everything in your life go well; the need to have power over others. All of these great, deep needs continue to control you only because the concept of the glorious God delighting in you with all His being is just that – a concept and nothing more. Our hearts don’t believe it, so they operate in default mode. Paul is saying that if you want to really change, you must let the Gospel teach you – that is to train, discipline, coach you – over a period of time. You must let the Gospel argue with you. You must let the Gospel sink down deeply into your heart, until it changes your motivation and views and attitudes.
– Tim Keller
God | The Gospel | The Heart
An honest heart is open to the Word.
– A. W. Pink
Honesty | The Heart
The condition of an enlightened mind is a surrendered heart… If a man in his heart is right with God, God will deal with the problem.
– Alan Redpath
Holiness | The Heart
While we cannot know a person’s heart, we can see his light. Allowing sin to go unconfessed can dim God’s light and hinder the effectiveness of a life’s testimony.
– Paul Chappell
The Heart | Light
The testimony of the lips indicates the state of the heart.
– Harry Ironside
Character | The Heart
Sordid and infamous sensuality, the most dreadful evil that issued from the box of Pandora, corrupts the entire heart and eradicates every virtue.
– Francois Fenelon
Sin | Virtue | The Heart
The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.
– George Whitefield
Holiness | The Heart
The condition of an enlightened mind is a surrendered heart… If a man in his heart is right with God, God will deal with the problem.
– Alan Redpath
Holiness | The Heart
Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.
– Blaise Pascal
Conversion | The Heart | Men
Although we will never be perfect in this life, it’s God’s passionate desire to continually transform our hearts and lives to reflect the beauty, love and holiness of Jesus.
– Chip Ingram
Life | The Heart
Prayer is not only asking, it is an attitude of heart that produces an atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural, and Jesus says, “every one that asketh receiveth.”
– Oswald Chambers
Prayer | Attitude | The Heart
Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.
– Corrie Ten Boom
Forgiveness | The Heart
It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
– Blaise Pascal
FaithThe Heart
We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.
– Blaise Pascal
Reasoning | The Heart
We can be assured that each step deeper into the Lord’s Presence will reveal areas in our hearts which need to be cleansed. Do not be afraid. When the Spirit shows you areas of sin, it is not to condemn you, but to cleanse you.
– Francis Frangipane
The Heart | Sin
We had long known the Lord without realizing that meekness and lowliness of heart should be the distinguishing feature of the disciple.
– Andrew Murray
Humility | Meekness | The Heart
We must have the glory sink into us before it can be reflected from us. In deep inward beholding we must have Christ in our hearts that He may shine forth from our lives.
– Alexander MacLaren
The Heart
Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
– William Cowper
Compassion | The Heart
Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God, to which Satan is a bitter enemy, for it removes from the heart the weight of sorrow, and the fascination of evil thoughts.
– Martin Luther
Music | Gifts | The Heart
Not until the work in hand has failed and we are despised and rejected shall we begin to discern the intent of our heart.
– Watchman Nee
Discernment | The Heart
Remember that the tongue speaks only what is in the heart.
– Theodore Epp
The Tongue | The Heart
It is not the mouth that is the main thing to be looked at in prayer, but whether the heart is so full of affection and earnestness in prayer with God, that it is impossible to express their sense and desire; for then a man desires indeed, when his desires are so strong, many, and mighty, that all the words, tears, and groans that can come from the heart, cannot utter them.
– John Bunyan
Prayer | The Heart
It is the heart which experiences God, not the reason.
– Blaise Pascal
God | Reasoning | The Heart
Many deceptions only appeal to us because there is something inside us that “wants” to believe them. They are seductive because of darkness and wrong motives in our own lives. We must search our hearts and root these out.
– Andrew Strom
The Heart | Deception
Why grow we weary when asked to watch with our Lord? Up, sluggish heart, Jesus calls thee! Rise and go forth to meet the Heavenly Friend in the place where He manifests Himself.
– E.M. Bounds
God | The Heart
The single most important thread in working through your disappointments is that your heart and mind ponder and grasp what the cross of Jesus Christ is all about. There is no pattern without the cross. There is no Good News without it. That is what the gospel is all about.
– Ravi Zacharias
The Heart | The Cross | The Gospel
Worship is not a repetitious exercise of rituals and formulas. These create a veil that actually prevents us from enjoying the presence of the Lord. Worship is the heart poured out in gratitude and awe, expressing our appreciation of who He is and what He has done for us by His grace through Jesus Christ.
– Dave Hunt
Worship | The Heart
If Christ comes into our hearts we are not ashamed.
– Dwight L. Moody
The Heart
Holiness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling within.
– A. B. Simpson
Holiness | The Heart
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
– John Quincy Adams
Encouragement | The Heart
In the heart of every man lurks a sense of inner wrongness and a conscience that will not be silenced.
– John Hagee
Conscience | The Heart
Labor is life: from the inmost heart of the worker rises his God-given force, the sacred celestial life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God!
– Thomas Carlyle
Service | The Heart
Moreover, when we are inclined towards someone we can hardly preserve our heart in quietness; usually we will be stirred by our emotion to seek feverishly to please the other one.
– Watchman Nee
KindnessThe Heart
The heart of man is a short word, a small substance, scarce enough to give a kite a meal, yet great in capacity; yea, so indefinite in desire that the round globe of the world cannot fill the three corners of it. When it desires more and cries, “Give, give,” I will set it over to the infinite good, where the more it hath, it may desire more, and see more to be desired.
– Joseph Hall
Selfishness | The Heart
An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction.
– Thomas Brooks
Idleness | The Heart
Actually, only God can satisfy a Christian’s heart; man cannot.
– Watchman Nee
Contentment | The Heart
If honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or if I preferred the counsel of my fellow-men to the declarations of the Word of God, I made great mistakes.
– George Mueller
Prayer | The Heart
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
– Thomas Fuller
Hope | The Heart
All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.
– Martin Luther
Faith | The Heart
And He departed from our sight that we might return to our heart, and there find Him. For He departed, and behold, He is here.
– Augustine
Jesus | The Heart
Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
Good and Evil | Beauty | The Heart
Keep your heart as you would a prisoner.
– Thomas Watson
Humility | The Heart
Only God can perform a spiritual heart transplant.
– Woodrow Kroll
The Heart
It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.
– Thomas Fuller
Finances | The Heart
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.
– A. W. Tozer
Holiness | The Holy Spirit | The Heart
The most tremendous judgment of God in this world is the hardening of the hearts of men.
– John Owen
Apathy | The Heart
The neglected heart will soon be a heart overrun with worldly thoughts; the neglected life will soon become a moral chaos.
– A. W. Tozer
Morality | Life | The Heart
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
– Henry Ward Beecher
The Heart | Wealth
We must learn to measure ourselves, not by our knowledge about God, not by our gifts and responsibilities in the church, but by how we pray and what goes on in our hearts. Many of us, I suspect, have no idea how impoverished we are at this level. Let us ask the Lord to show us.
– J.I. Packer
Prayer | The Heart
Let each of us learn to abide in Christ with the heart open to Him on the one hand, and open to men, women and children on the other.
– F.B. Meyer
Charity | The Heart
If a child of God cherishes sin in his heart he is lending his mind to satanic spirits for their use.
– Watchman Nee
Sin | The Heart
Be good; keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.
– Thomas Merton
Christ | The HeartJoy
If you have been mistreated, cheated or deceived and if your heart has been right all along, be assured that God knows this. God will eventually vindicate you, but in the meantime you should be confidently aware that God knows the truth concerning what has happened to you. He knows if your heart has been right.
– Theodore Epp
Justice | The Heart
When the Word dwells as a familiar friend in the heart to direct, counsel and comfort us, then it is a sign it abides there. The devil knows good and hates it, therefore knowledge alone is nothing; but when the promise alters the temper of the heart itself, then it is engrafted there.
– Richard Sibbes
The Heart
I believe firmly that the moment our hearts are emptied of pride and selfishness and ambition and everything that is contrary to God’s law, the Holy Spirit will fill every corner of our hearts. But if we are full of pride and conceit and ambition and the world, there is no room for the Spirit of God. We must be emptied before we can be filled.
– Dwight L. Moody
The Heart
If we are to pray aright, perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we want to pray is important, but what God wants us to pray. The richness of the Word of God ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Prayer | Humility | The Heart
Heaven hath many tongues to talk of it, more eyes to behold it, but few hearts that rightly affect it.
– Joseph Hall
Heaven | The Heart
Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of ‘touching’ a man’s heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it.
– G.K. Chesterton
Theology | Reasoning | The Heart
Cheerfulness is a friend to grace; it puts the heart in tune to praise God, and so honors religion by proclaiming to the world that we serve a good master. Be serious, yet cheerful. Rejoice in the Lord always.
– Thomas Watson
Cheerfulness | The Heart
The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
– Henry Ward Beecher
Blessings | The Heart | Thankfulness