Inner Heart Quotes

What am I in most people's eyes? A nonentity or an eccentric and disagreeable man... I should want my work to show what is in the heart of such an eccentric, of such a nobody.

But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?

Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.

God's standard of judgment goes down to the intents of the heart.

Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.

Underneath that rude exterior, you've got a heart of gold.

When Jesus's followers asked him to teach them to pray, he didn't tell them to divide into focus groups and look deep within their own hearts.

every heart has its graveyard.

BELOVED, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there.

When, from the depths of your heart, you spontaneously wish all beings to find true, lasting happiness, this is great love.

One opens the inner doors of one's heart to the infinite silences of the Spirit, out of whose abysses love wells up without fail and gives itself to all.

Facts, at any rate, could not be kept hidden. They could be tracked down by inquiry, they could be squeezed out of you by torture. But if the object was not to stay alive but to stay human, what difference did it ultimately make? They could not alter your feelings, for that matter you could not alter them yourself, even if you wanted to. They could lay bare in the utmost detail everything that you had done or said or thought; but the inner heart, whose workings were mysterious even to yourself, remained impregnable.

We are all afflicted with our own spiritual blindness. That's what sin does to us, and we all sin. We would do better to look into our own hearts and deal with our own sin before we condemn the sins of others.

God is more concerned with the state of people's hearts than He is with the state of their feelings.

Music is like painting in sound. You take it into your inner heart and never lose it. It's eternally mysterious.

Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my heart's core, in my heart of heart, as I do thee.

The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.

It’s all too easy to turn the fight of faith into sanctification-by-checklist. Take care of a few bad habits, develop a couple good ones, and you’re set. But a moral checklist doesn’t take into consideration the idols of the hearts. It may not even have the gospel as part of the equation. And inevitably, checklist spirituality is highly selective. So you end up feeling successful at sanctification because you stayed away from drugs, lost weight, served at the soup kitchen, and renounced Styrofoam. But you’ve ignored gentleness, humility, joy, and sexual purity.

The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the cause of action.

Only a fortunate few seek the Beloved. Only a blessed few seek to enter the shrine of the heart.

Before you judge me , try hard to love me , look within your heart Then ask , - have you seen my childhood ?

You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you.

Only a fool is interested in other people's guilt, since he cannot alter it. The wise man learns only from his own guilt. He will ask himself: Who am I that all this should happen to me? To find the answer to this fateful question he will look into his own heart.

My advice for people is to love the world they are in, in whatever way makes sense to them. It may be a devotional practice, it may be song or poetry, it may be by gardening, it may be as an activist, scientist, or community leader. The path to restoration extends from our heart to the heart of sentient beings, and that path will be different for every person.