 God loves a broken heart, not a divided heart. Author: Thomas Watson
Source: The Upright Man's Character |
| All the danger is when the world gets into the heart. The water is useful for the sailing of the ship; all the danger is when the water gets into the ship; so the fear is when the world gets into the heart. Author: Thomas Watson
Source: A Puritan Golden Treasury |
| We must have the glory sink into us before it can be reflected from us. In deep inward beholding we must have Christ in our hearts, that He may shine forth from our lives. Author: Alexander MacLaren |
| Until we taste the bitterness of our own misery we will never relish the sweetness of God's mercy. Until we see how foul our sins have made us we will never pay our tribute of praise to Christ for washing us... If you would know the heart of your sin then you must know the sins of your heart! Author: William Secker
Source: The Consistent Christian, 1660. |
| There is no ascertaining the quality of a tree but by its fruits. When the wheels of a clock move within, the hand on the dial will move without. When the heart of a man is sound in conversion, then the life will be fair in profession. Author: William Secker |
| Where love is the compelling power, there is no sense of strain or conflict or bondage in doing what is right: the man or woman who is compelled by Jesus' love and empowered by His Spirit does the will of God from the heart. Author: F.F. Bruce
Source: Paul - Apostle of the Heart Set Free, Eerdmans |
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| When the Word dwells as a familiar friend in the heart to direct, counsel and comfort us, then it is a sign it abides there. The devil knows good and hates it, therefore knowledge alone is nothing; but when the promise alters the temper of the heart itself, then it is engrafted there. Author: Richard Sibbes |
| Without the heart it is not worship; it is a stage play; an acting a part without being that person really a hypocrite. We may truly be said to worship God-though we lack perfection; but we cannot be said to worship Him if we lack sincerity. Author: Stephen Charnock |
| Works make not the heart good, but a good heart makes the works good. Author: Stephen Charnock
Source: A Puritan Golden Treasury |
| I believe firmly that the moment our hearts are emptied of pride and selfishness and ambition and everything that is contrary to God's law, the Holy Spirit will fill every corner of our hearts. But if we are full of pride and conceit and ambition and the world, there is no room for the Spirit of God. We must be emptied before we can be filled. Author: D.L. Moody |
| It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. Author: Henry Ward Beecher |
| We must learn to measure ourselves, not by our knowledge about God, not by our gifts and responsibilities in the church, but by how we pray and what goes on in our hearts. Many of us, I suspect, have no idea how impoverished we are at this level. Let us ask the Lord to show us. Author: J.I. Packer |
