Billy Graham Quotes

It's the age-old battle between mind and heart, which seldom want the same thing.

i like to think that im helping them by hating them

My heart says one thing. My head says another. Very hard to get your heart and head together in life.

Few things loves better Than to abhor himself.

In his deepest heart there surge tremendous shame and madness mixed with sorrow and love whipped on by frenzy and a courage aware of its own worth.

My brain said no. But my heart!

It is because I had so much joy that I came to have so much hate.

That strange, twisted, torn love. That conflict between what your heart knows is right and what your mind is told is right.

I know the anger lies inside of me like I know the beat of my heart and the taste of my spit. It is easier to be furious than to be yearning. Easier to crucify myself in you than to take on the threatening universe of whiteness by admitting that we are worth wanting each other.

I understood all that in my head, but I still didn‟t believe it in my heart.

Men felt a chill in their hearts; a damp in their minds. In a desperate effort to snuggle their feelings into some sort of warmth,one subterfuge was tried after anothersentences swelled, adjectives multiplied, lyrics became epics.

She attracted him more than he liked.

I'm ridiculous to feel ridiculous when I'm not.

Sometimes I feel good, at times I feel used. Loving you darling, makes me so confused.

The most difficult dilemma for a person is perhaps when his heart testifies to an inevitable reality yet his tongue will not proclaim it, when his mind screams in acceptance of truth but he cant bring himself to state it.

The break would never come as long as fear could turn to wrath.

There is a gulf as wide as an ocean between should and want, and I am drowning in it.

There is a struggle inside you between these two parts. It's as if at times your heart becomes a battlefield! The secret part, full of light, seems so small and weak in the face of the discouraging and morbid part, which seems enormous and overwhelming. However, if you light a small candle in a dark room, everything is lit up. It is a matter of trusting in this little light in the deepest part of your being which can gradually chase away the darkness.

The health of the soul is something we can be no more sure of than that of the body; and though a man may seem far from the passions, yet he is in as much danger of falling into them as one in a perfect state of health of having a fit of sickness.

I have a congenital desire to contradict; my whole life is merely a chain of sad and unsuccessful contradictions to heart and mind. When faced with enthusiasm, I am seized by a midwinter freeze, and I suppose that frequent dealings with sluggish phlegmatics would have made a passionate dreamer.

Can calm despair and wild unrest Be tenants of a single breast, Or sorrow such a changeling be?

The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself

Inside your own self pity there you swim, in sinking down to drown her voice still haunts you, and only with your laughter can you win.