Burning Heart Quotes

• Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Love, Inspirational, Positive

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• Burning hearts are not nourished by empty heads

  R. C. Sproul

  Heart, Burning, Empty

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• Only do what your heart tells you.

  Princess Diana

  Love, Inspirational, Positive

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• A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Charles Dickens (2007). “David Copperfield”, Bloomsbury Pub Limited

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  Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Love, Life, Positive

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.340, Penguin

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• If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Motherhood, Oil

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• To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

  Mother Teresa

  Friendship, Faith, Inspiration

  1975 In Time, 29 Dec.

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• I am looking for the fellowship of the burning heart--for men and women of all generations everywhere who love the Savior until adoration becomes the music of their soul until they don't have to be fooled with and entertained and amused. Jesus Christ is everything, all-in-all.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Jesus, Heart, Men

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• Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

  Bruce Lee

  Love, Life, Friendship

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.96, Tuttle Publishing

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• Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

  Washington Irving

  Love, Break Up, Broken Heart

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• A Christian is not a skeptic. A Christian is a person with a burning heart, a heart set aflame with certainty of the resurrection.

  R. C. Sproul

  Christian, Heart, Burning

  R. C. Sproul (1991). “Following Christ”, Tyndale House Pub

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• Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Love, Life, Lying

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• Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever.

  Rumi

  Heart, Love Is, Forever With You

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• Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

  Laozi

  Love, Wisdom, Passion

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• The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Family, Mothers Day, Father

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas Allsop (1836). “Letters, conversations, and recollections of S. T. Coleridge: in two volumes”, p.23

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• There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Spring, Heart

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• A terrible violence of creation,A flash into the burning heart of the abominable;Yet if we wait, unafraid, beyond the fearful instant,The burning lake turns into a forest pool,The fire subsides into rings of water,A sunlit silence.

  Theodore Roethke

  Heart, Fire, Lakes

  Theodore Roethke (1975). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, Anchor Books

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• To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul's paradox of love, scorned indeed by the too-easily-satisfied religionist, but justified in happy experience by the children of the burning heart.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Children, Heart, Soul

  "The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine". Book by Aiden Wilson Tozer, 1948.

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• His fingers skimmed down her body, over skin and satin, and she shivered, leaning into him, and she was sure they both tasted like blood and ashes and salt, but it didn't matter; the world, the city, and all it's lights and life seemed to have narrowed down to this, just her and Jace, the burning heart of a frozen world.

  Cassandra Clare

  Peace, Heart, Light

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Fallen Angels”, p.409, Simon and Schuster

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