"God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart."
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"The pure heart is a spotless mirror in which images of infinite beauty are reflected."
"Heart is a sea, language is the shore. Whatever is in a sea hits the shore."
"I am smiling at myself today There's no wish left in this heart Or perhaps there is no heart left Free from all desire I sit quietly like Earth My silent cry echoes like thunder Throughout the universe I am not worried about it I know it will be heard by no one Except me."
"Do good to the people for the sake of God or for the peace of your own soul that you may always see what is pure and save your Heart from the darkness of hate"
"If you become a helper of hearts, springs of wisdom will flow from your heart."
"When The Goodwill Of Hearts Is With You, Fountains Of Wisdom Will Begin To Flow From Within Your Own Being."
"The LORD sees not as man sees; man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart."
"Sometimes it's hard to pick right from wrong. The best thing we can do is go with our heart and hope it all goes well."
"Scott-there's nothing in the world I want but you-and your precious love. All the material things are nothing. I'd just hate to live in a sordid, colorless existence-because you'd soon love less-and less-and I'd do anything-anything-to keep your heart for my own-I don't want to live-I want to love first and live incidentally."
"Try not to cry too much because it can be pretty heart-breaking and pretty hard."
"True beauty lies in purity of the heart."
"Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart."
"A lukewarm heart cannot perform boiling hot worship! Heat up our hearts for God and the temperature of our worship will increase!"
"If you can let go of (the Tao) with your mind and surround it with your heart, it will live inside you forever."
"Knowing constancy, the mind is open. With an open mind, you will be openhearted. Being openhearted you will act royally. Being royal, you will attain the divine. Being divine, you will be at one with the Tao. Being at one with the Tao is eternal. Though the body dies, the Tao will never pass away."
"Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament....There you will find romance, glory, honor, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves upon earth, and more than that: death: by the divine paradox, that which ends life, and demands the surrender of all, and yet by the taste (or foretaste) of which alone can what you seek in your earthly relationships (love, faithfulness, joy) be maintained, or take on that complexion of reality, of eternal endurance, that every man's heart desires"
"A sudden understanding, a pity mixed with horror, welled up in Bilbo's heart: a glimpse of endless unmarked days without light or hope of betterment, hard stone, cold fish, sneaking and whispering. All these thoughts passed in a flash of a second. He trembled. And then quite suddenly in another flash, as if lifted by a new strength and resolve, he leaped."
"The one-legged creature is envious of the millipede; the millipede is envious of the snake; the snake is envious of the wind; the wind is envious of the eye; the eye is envious of the heart."
"An envious heart makes a treacherous ear."