Human Heart Quotes - Page 16

• Pride measures prosperity not by her own advantages but by the disadvantages of others. She would not even wish to be a goddess unless there were some wretches left whom she could order about and lord it over, whose misery would make her happiness seem all the more extraordinary, whose poverty can be tormented and exacerbated by a display of her wealth. This infernal serpent, pervading the human heart, keeps men from reforming their lives, holding them back like a suckfish.

  Thomas More

  Heart, Pride, Men

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• 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

  Heart, Army, Progress

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• Nothing but real love--(how rare it is; has one human heart in a million ever known it?) nothing but real love can repay us for the loss of freedom--the cares and fears of poverty--the cold pity of the world that we both despise and respect.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Love, Real, Heart

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• One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.

  Ida Tarbell

  Memories, Heart, Noble

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• 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.

  Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

  Heart, Law, World

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• Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.

  Walter Scott

  Spring, Heart, Heaven

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• 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

  Heart, Israel, Battle

  Francine Rivers (2012). “A Lineage of Grace”, p.322, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Things are never simple when it comes to the human heart.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Heart, Simple, Humans

  "‘Community’ Season 4: Gillian Jacobs Talks Creative Changes, ‘Freaky Friday’ Episode And Renewal Chances". Interview with Laura Prudom, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.

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• there comes a time when ambition ceases to burn, or romance to stir, and the highest cry of the human heart is for peace.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Heart, Ambition, Romance

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1957). “The Mary Roberts Rinehart crime book”

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• The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way.

  George W. Bush

  Wall, Heart, Law

  United Nations General Assembly Address, delivered 21 September 2004, New York, NY

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• 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!

  Phyllis Bottome

  Running, Heart, Men

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

  William Henry Harrison

  Heart, Voice, Revelry

  William Henry Harrison (1833). “Christmas tales, historical and domestic”, p.187

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• A human heart is a skein of such imperceptibly and subtly interwoven threads that even the owner of it is often himself at a loss how to unravel it.

  Giovanni Ruffini

  Heart, Loss, Owners

  Giovanni Ruffini (1857). “Doctor Antonio: a tale of Italy”, p.299

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• we don't have to agree with each other in order to think well together. There is no need for us to be joined at the head. We are joined by our human hearts.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Heart, Thinking, Order

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2002). “Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future”, p.37, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Society is the true sphere of human virtue. In social, active life, difficulties will perpetually be met with; restraints of many kinds will be necessary; and studying to behave right in respect of these is a discipline of the human heart, useful to others, and improving to itself. Suffering is no duty, but where it is necessary to avoid guilt, or to do good; nor pleasure a crime, but where it strengthens the influence of bad inclinations, or lessens the generous activity of virtue.

  Elizabeth Carter

  Heart, Discipline, Suffering

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1806). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes ...”, p.259

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• The human heart is like heaven; the more angels the more room.

  Fredrika Bremer

  Heart, Angel, Heaven

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• The widest thing in the universe is not space; it is the
  potential capacity of the human heart. Being made in the image of God, it is
  capable of almost unlimited extension in all directions. And one of the world's
  greatest tragedies is that we allow our hearts to shrink until there is room in
  them for little besides ourselves.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Heart, Space, Tragedy

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• If you should take the human heart and listen to it, it would be like listening to a sea-shell; you would hear in it the hollow murmur of the infinite ocean to which it belongs, from which it draws its profoundest inspiration, and for which it yearns.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Ocean, Inspiration, Heart

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• What a proof of the Divine tenderness is there in the human heart itself, which is the organ and receptacle oft so many sympathies! When we consider how exquisite are those conditions by which it is even made capable of so much suffering--the capabilities of a child's heart, of a mother's heart,--what must be the nature of Him who fashioned its depths, and strung its chords.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Mother, Children, Heart

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• Of the total creative effort represented in a finished work, 75 percent or more of a writer's labor goes into designing the story designing story tests the maturity and insight of the writer, his knowledge of society, nature, and the human heart.  Story demands both vivid imagination and powerful analytic thought.

  Robert McKee

  Powerful, Heart, Maturity

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• Let it never be forgotten that, although we may do nothing about the Word we hear, the Word will do something to us.
  The same sun melts ice and hardens clay, and the Word of God humbles or hardens the human heart.

  Vance Havner

  Heart, Ice, Clay

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• Without constraint, without any form of mental compulsion, the act of belief becomes the freest possible projection of what resides in our hearts. Like the poet's image of a church bell that reveals its latent music only when struck, or a dragonfly that flames forth its beauty only in flight, so does the content of a human heart lie buried until action calls it forth. The greatest act of self-revelation occurs when we choose what we will believe, in that space of freedom that exists between knowing that a thing is and knowing that a thing is not.

  Terryl L. Givens

  Lying, Believe, Heart

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• 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

  Memories, Heart, Law

  Stacy Aumonier (1920). “One After Another”

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• There is no passion of the human heart that promises so much and pays so little as revenge.

  Josh Billings

  Revenge, Passion, Heart

  Josh Billings (1913). “Wit and Wisdom of Josh Billings [pseud.]: Choice Bits of Fun and Philosophy of the Great Humorist Carefully Collected and Revised”

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• The deepest longing of the human heart is to know and enjoy the glory of God. We were made for this.

  John Piper

  Heart, Longing, Glory

  John Piper (2016). “A Peculiar Glory: How the Christian Scriptures Reveal Their Complete Truthfulness”, p.150, SPCK

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