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"The heart clings to collected treasure. Stored-up possessions get between me and God. Where my treasure is, there is my trust, my security, my comfort, my God. Treasure means idolatry."
"Her big heart did not, as is so sadly often the case, inhabit a big bosom."
"The trouble is that my heart is loath to be without love even for a single hour. ... If you want to keep me forever, then show as much friendship as love, and more than anything else, love me and tell me the truth."
"Break their hearts my pride and hope, break their hearts and have no mercy. -Miss Havisham"
"The Library is the heart of the University."
"I want to create a place where trans people and our allies could come together to share experiences, information and ideas. Being transgender or loving someone who is transgender can be challenging in our society and I hope that members of this site will also use this space as a place to support and encourage each other. Together, we can strengthen our community and open the hearts and minds of others."
"Caring about beauty, it is necessary to start with the heart and soul, otherwise no makeup will not help."
"The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself."
"The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed."
"Lust may be in the heart, though it be not seen by others; as guests may be in the house, though they look not out at the windows."
"Faith is the avenue to salvation. Not intellectual understanding. Not money. Not your works. Just simple faith. How much faith? The faith of a mustard seed, so small you can hardly see it. But if you will put that little faith in the person of Jesus, your life will be changed. He will come with supernatural power into your heart. It can happen to you."
"My job is simply to proclaim the Gospel, and to let the Spirit of God apply in the individual hearts. When I give the invitation for people to receive Christ it will be so quiet you can hear a pin drop. And you will see people coming forward deliberately, quietly, reverently, thoughtfully, and many of their lives. . . . will have been transformed and changed in that moment."
"It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray."
"Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast"
"It's the music. Your heart is in your ears."
"I wasn't really testing it on myself as much as I was learning from other people about what it meant to live and love with your whole heart, and then thinking, oh my god, I'm not doing that."
"A heart of faith is anchored in the unseen"
"For the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still."
"There is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. All of us, today, are dying of this misfortune. For violence and hatred dry up the heart itself; the long fight for justice exhausts the love that nevertheless gave birth to it."
"...For the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies."
