Human Heart Quotes - Page 17

• Heaven's Sovereign saves all beings but himselfThat hideous sight,-a naked human heart.

  Edward Young

  Heart, Sight, Heaven

  Edward Young (1813). “The Complaint; Or, Night Thoughts”, p.51

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• But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down to their level, and which reduces men to preferring equality in servitude to inequality in freedom.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Strong, Heart, Men

  "Democracy in America" by Alexis de Tocqueville, Volume I, Chapter III, Part I, 1835.

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• There is a deeper truth expressed in the unity of the United States. Implicate in the union of our country is the union of all people. All people are essentially one. The world is interconnected not only on the material level of economics, trade, communication, and transportation, but innerconnected through human consciousness, through the human heart, through the heart of the world, through the simply expressed impulse and yearning to be and to breathe free.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Country, Communication, Heart

  Speech at University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, theconversation.org. February 17, 2002.

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• A faerie heart is different from a human heart. Human hearts are elastic. They have room for all sorts of passions, and they can break and heal and love again and again. Faerie hearts are evolutionarily less sophisticated. They are small and hard, like tiny grains of sand. Our hearts are too small to love more than one person in a lifetime.

  Tink

  Passion, Heart, And Love

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• No iron spike can pierce a human heart as icily as a period in the right place.

  Isaac Babel

  Heart, Iron, Periods

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• God did not create the strife between races, nor did He intend for it to be that way. Strife between races and ethnic groups comes from sin-and sin resides in the human heart. The Bible says, “What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you?” (James 4:1). When one group or one race claims it is superior to another, pride has taken control-and pride is a sin.Instead, God wants us to learn to accept each other and love each other-and this becomes possible, as we turn our lives over to Christ and allow Him to change us from within.

  Billy Graham

  Taken, Heart, Fighting

  FaceBook post by Billy Graham from Aug 09, 2015

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• Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

  Sir Aubrey de Vere, 2nd Baronet

  Heart, Power, Thrones

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• Deep in the human heart
  The fire of justice burns;
  A vision of a world renewed
  Through radical concern.

  William Wallace

  Heart, Fire, Justice

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• Look at me. Look at me is one of the fundamental desires of human heart.

  Bertrand Russell

  Heart, Desire, Fundamentals

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• There is a great life-giving, warming power called Love, which exists in human hearts dumb and unseen, but which has no real life, no warming power, till set free by expression.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Real, Heart, Expression

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes, Or, The Little Failings which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.41

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• All religions are essentially the same in their goal of developing a good human heart so that we may become better human beings.

  Dalai Lama

  Heart, Goal, May

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• More than blood passes through the human heart.

  Marlo Morgan

  Heart, Blood, Humans

  Marlo Morgan (1991). “Mutant message down under”, Bookpeople

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• 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.

  Oswald Chambers

  Heart, Intellectual, Passionate

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• ...the word that seems best to summarize the desire of the human heart is 'communion.' ...wherever we look it is communion that we seek.

  Henri Nouwen

  Heart, Desire, Looks

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• If you do not feel a fervent love and profound pity for humanity, be assured that the gift of Christian eloquence has been denied you. You will not win souls, neither will you acquire that most excellent of earthly sovereignties - sovereignty over human hearts....Love is irresistible.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Christian, Heart, Winning

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• There are two different stories in horror: internal and external. In external horror films, the evil comes from the outside, the other tribe, this thing in the darkness that we don't understand. Internal is the human heart.

  John Carpenter

  Heart, Two, Evil

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• O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!

  Virgil

  Philosophical, Heart, Gold

  Virgil (2004). “The Aeneid”, p.61, Collector's Library

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• Are you appalled at existing conditions? Don't waste your energy trying to change conditions from without! Change the Human Heart from within.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Heart, Trying, Energy

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• Every so often we hear people clamor for a change. Let's change the Constitution, change the form of Government, change everything for better or worse except to change the only thing that needs changing first: The human heart and our standard of success and human values.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Change, Heart, Government

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• Gold adulterates one thing only,--the human heart.

  Margaret of Valois

  Heart, Gold, Humans

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• These ways to make people buy were strange and new to us, and many bought for the sheer pleasure at first of holding in the hand and talking of something new. And once this was done, it was like opium, we could no longer do without this new bauble, and thus, though we hated the foreigners and though we knew they were ruining us, we bought their goods. Thus I learned the art of the foreigners, the art of creating in the human heart restlessness, disquiet, hunger for new things, and these new desires became their best helpers.

  Han Suyin

  Art, Loss, Hands

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• The human heart in its perversity finds it hard to escape hatred and revenge.

  Moshe Chaim Luzzatto

  Forgiveness, Revenge, Heart

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• The human heart yearns for the beautiful in all ranks of life. The beautiful things that God makes are His gift to all alike. I know there are many of the poor who have fine feeling and a keen sense of the beautiful, which rusts out and dies because they are too hard pressed to procure it any gratification.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Beauty, Beautiful, Heart

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1860). “The May-flower. Scenes and Sketches”, p.224

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• Do not be afraid to help one another. The devil is looking for rivalry, division, gangs. Keep working to make progress ... I have seen how pain does not stifle the hope deep within the human heart and how life goes on, finding new strength even in the midst of difficulties.

  Pope Francis

  Life, Strength, Pain

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• At the center of each human heart is goodness, layered over with hurt, confusion, and mistaken ideas. Our task is to gently peel off layer after layer until the unfettered heart can shed its love upon the world.

  Sue Thoele

  Love, Hurt, Heart

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