Let those desert places in our hearts bloom.
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Let those desert places in our hearts bloom.
Either your troubles make you better, or they make you bitter. We must always examine what’s going on in our hearts.
The door to my heart opens inward. I move through forgiveness to love.
We cannot go back in time and change the past, but we can repent. The Savior can wipe away our tears of regret and remove the burden of our sins. His Atonement allows us to leave the past behind and move forward with clean hands, a pure heart, and a determination to do better and especially to become better.
When a person’s tongue is extensively wrong, it is absurd, no less than unscriptural, to say that their heart is right.
Where persons love little, do little, and give little, we may shrewdly suspect that they have never had much affliction of heart for their sins and that they think they owe but very little to divine grace.
Before you can teach children, you must get the silver key of kindness to unlock their hearts, and so secure their attention.
Love to Jesus is the basis of all true piety, and the intensity of this love will ever be the measure of our zeal for His glory. Let us love Him with all our hearts, and then diligent labor, and consistent living will be sure to follow.
We may not be able to give much but we can always give the joy that springs in a heart that is in LOVE WITH GOD.
However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel.
My dear Jesus, my Savior, is so deeply written in my heart, that I feel confident, that if my heart were to be cut open and chopped to pieces, the name of Jesus would be found written on every piece.
Great hearts can only be made by great troubles. Great faith must have great trials.
Two conflicting forces cannot exist in one human heart. When doubt reigns, faith cannot abide. Where hatred rules, love is crowded out. Where selfishness rules, there love cannot dwell. When worry is present, trust cannot crowd its way in.
In the face of so many wounds that hurt us and could lead to a hardness of heart, we are called to dive into the sea of prayer, which is the sea of the boundless love of God, in order to experience his tenderness
One hard day of work proves you have heart. But day after day is what proves you have maturity and commitment.
The cross is the surest, truest and deepest window on the very heart and character of the living and loving God.
We shall draw nearer to God, not by trying to avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting them and offering them to Him; throwing away all defensive armour. If our hearts need to be broken, and if He chooses this as the way in which they should break, so be it.
He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist
It is better to be the recipient of violence than the inflicter of it, since the latter only multiplies the existence of violence and bitterness in the universe, while the former may develop a sense of shame in the opponent, and thereby bring about a transformation and change of heart.
There was a time, when I blamed my companion if his religion did not resemble mine. Now, however, my heart accepts every form....Love alone is my religion.
Forgiveness is not a result of our efforts, but is a gift. It is a gift of the Holy Spirit who showers us with mercy and grace that pours forth unceasingly from the open heart of Christ crucified and risen.
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