Human Heart Quotes - Page 18

• The most important principle of divine philosophy is the oneness of the world of humanity, the unity of mankind, the bond conjoining East and West, the tie of love which blends human hearts.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Love, Philosophy, Heart

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• The hardness of the human heart makes no sense.

  Rob Bell

  Heart, Hardness, Humans

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• I desire to unite Myself to human souls, Know, My daughter, that when I come to a human heart in Holy Communion, My hands are full of all kinds of graces which I want to give to the soul. But souls do not even pay any attention to Me; they leave Me to Myself and busy themselves with other things... They treat Me as a dead object.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Christian, Daughter, Heart

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• The human heart is a mysterious and sometimes dark place.

  Emily Yoffe

  Heart, Dark, Mysterious

  "I Won't Be Home for Christmas". Live chat, www.slate.com. September 8, 2015.

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• It begins here, and has no end, and no earthly power can coerce it; and it is to be found in the human heart.

  Tito Colliander

  Heart, Asceticism, Ends

  Tito Colliander (1982). “Way of the Ascetics: The Ancient Tradition of Discipline and Inner Growth”, p.8, St Vladimir's Seminary Press

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• One thing it makes me realize is just how similar we all are, around the globe. The details may be different, but every human heart is touched by themes like hope, comfort and mercy.

  Matt Redman

  Heart, Comfort, Details

  "A conversation with worship leader Matt Redman". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. September 21, 2011.

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• Ambition is one of the ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable.

  John Adams

  Passion, Heart, Ambition

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• There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.

  Patrick Campbell, 3rd Baron Glenavy

  Heart, Bridges, Grace

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• As no scripture is of private interpretation, so is there no feeling in a human heart which exists in that heart alone - which is not, in some form or degree, in every human heart.

  George MacDonald

  Heart, Feelings, Degrees

  George MacDonald (2007). “Unspoken Sermons”, p.192, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Sometimes it seemed that the human heart, this side of Eden, feared life more than death, light more than darkness, freedom more than surrender.

  Dean Koontz

  Heart, Light, Eden

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• Does the human heart know chasms so abysmal?

  Alan Moore

  Heart, Doe, Chasms

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• It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart

  John Knowles

  War, Heart, Stupidity

  John Knowles (2014). “A Separate Peace”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• God has fallen out of containment in religion and into human hearts—God is incarnating. Our whole unconscious is in an uproar from the God Who wants to know and to be known.

  Carl Jung

  Heart, Want, Fallen

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• He wished he had some kind of X-ray vision for the human heart.

  Kim Edwards

  Heart, Vision, Rays

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.155, Penguin

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• In the human heart one generation of passions follows another; from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Spring, Passion, Heart

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• No matter how much light I carry within me, there will always be times of feeling lost, being confused, seeking direction. It is the way of the human heart.

  Joyce Rupp

  Confused, Heart, Light

  Joyce Rupp (2003). “The Star in My Heart: Experiencing Sophia, Inner Wisdom”, Sorin Books

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• When bad things turn good, the reason can usually be found in the human heart—sometimes in the hearts of great masses of people, sometimes in the heart of a solitary soul.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Heart, People, Soul

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• Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Heart, Wonder, Show Me

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.74, Faber & Faber

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• What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden changes in character, about which so much has been said, are instinctive calculations for the furtherance of our own pleasures. Seeing himself now in his fine clothes, his new gloves and shoes, Eugène de Rastignac forgot his noble resolve. Youth, when it swerves toward wrong, dares not look in the mirror of conscience; maturity has already seen itself there. That is the whole difference between the two phases of life.

  Honore de Balzac

  Heart, Character, Maturity

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• The human heart was undeniably the stupidest organ in the body.

  Francine Pascal

  Heart, Body, Stupidest

  Francine Pascal (2003). “Shock”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Heart, Mirrors, Inventor

  Fernando Pessoa (1996). “The Book of Disquietude: By Bernardo Soares, Assistant Bookkeeper in the City of Lisbon”

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• The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear ducts and the nape of the neck and to make a person feel something about the characters are going through and to experience the moral paradoxes and struggles of being human.

  Tim O'Brien

  Struggle, Heart, Character

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• I still believe in the resilience of the human heart and the essential validity of love;I still believe that connections between people can be made and that the spirits which inhabit us sometimes touch. I still believe that the cost of these connections is horribly, outrageously high... and I still believe that the value received far outweighs the price which must be paid. (From introductory notes.)

  Stephen King

  Believe, Heart, People

  Stephen King (2016). “Four Past Midnight”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• It was the kind of promise a father makes easily and sincerely, knowing at the same time that it will be impossible to keep. The truth of some promises is not as important as whether or not you can believe in them, with all your heart. A game of baseball can't really make a summer day last forever. A home run can't really heal all the broken places in our world, or in a single human heart. And there was no way that Mr. Feld could keep his promise never to leave Ethan again. All parents leave their children one day.

  Michael Chabon

  Summer, Baseball, Running

  Michael Chabon (2002). “Summerland”, Miramax

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• No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.

  Abraham Verghese

  Heart, Son, Parenting

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