Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joyce Meyer

We cannot stand through the storms of life based on someone else's faith. We must be fully assured in our own hearts and minds.

Joyce Meyer

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don't give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

Joyce Meyer

Love can melt the hardest heart, heal the wounds of the broken heart and quiet the fears of the anxious heart.

Joseph Williams

I find afflictions to be good for me. I have always found them so. Afflictions are happy means in the hands of the Holy Spirit to subdue my corruptions, my pride, my evil passions, my inordinate love to the creature. Afflictions soften my hard heart, bring me to my knees, increase faith, increase love, increase humility, increase self-denial. Afflictions make me poor in spirit, and nothing in my own eyes.

Josephine Baker

Is that what they call a vocation, what you do with joy as if you had fire in your heart, the devil in your body?

Joseph Campbell

I think what we lack isn't science, but poetry that reveals what the heart is ready to recognize

Joseph Campbell

The Greeks, it will be recalled, regarded Eros, the god of love, as the eldest of the gods; but also as the youngest, born fresh and dewy-eyed in every living heart.

Joseph Campbell

For when the heart insists on its destiny, resisting the general blandishment, then the agony is great; so too the danger. Forces, however, will have been set in motion beyond the reckoning of the senses. Sequences of events from the corners of the world will draw gradually together, and miracles of coincidence bring the inevitable to pass.

Joseph Campbell

What's made up in the head is the fiction. What comes out of the heart is a myth.

Joseph Campbell

You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you - a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.

Karl Pilkington

I saw a bee have a heart attack...

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

If you want to penetrate into the heart of physics, then let yourself be initiated into the mysteries of poetry.

Mother Teresa

Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.

Mother Teresa

Listen in silence because if your heart is full of other things you cannot hear the voice of God

Mother Teresa

God speaks in the silence of the heart.

Mother Teresa

Let me thus praise You in the way You love best: by shining on those around me. Let me preach You without preaching, not by words, but by my example, by the catching force, the sympathetic influence of what I do, the evident fullness of the love my heart bears to You. Amen.

Mother Teresa

We are not social workers. We are contemplatives in the heart of the world.

Mother Teresa

Yesterday is gone and tomorrow has not yet come; we must live each day as if it were our last so that when God calls us we already, and prepared, to die with a clean heart.

Mother Teresa

So many signatures for such a small heart.

Mother Teresa

I am Albanian by birth. Now I am a citizen of India. I am also a Catholic nun. In my work, I belong to the whole world. But in my heart, I belong to Christ.

Mother Teresa

The woman is at the heart of the home. Let us pray that we women realize the reason for our existence: to love and be loved and through this love become instruments of peace in the world.

Mother Teresa

A clean heart can see God, can speak to God, and can see the love of God in others.

Mother Teresa

The openness of our hearts and minds can be measured by how wide we draw the circle of what we call family.

Mother Teresa

If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride because it shows you trust in your own power. Your self-sufficiency, your selfishness and your intellectual pride will inhibit His coming to live in your heart because God cannot fill what is already full. It is as simple as that.

Matrimonially speaking, a bridle for the tongue is better than a rein for the heart.

Mira Nair

Making films is about having absolute and foolish confidence; the challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a poet and the skin of an elephant.

Mike Krzyzewski

Don't let a single game break your heart.

Pearl S. Buck

A woman's mind is not an instrument apart from her other being. She does not separate herself as man does, now flesh, now mind, now heart. She is there as one, a unity complete and unified.

Pearl S. Buck

It is love itself that is important -- the ability to love, no matter whom you love. For when you can no longer love anyone, you are no longer a living person. The heart dies if it loses the capacity to love.

Pearl S. Buck

the heart never grows old.

Pearl S. Buck

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

Paula McLain

But when Bumby nursed, his fist clutching the fabric of my robe, his eyes soft and bottomless and locked on mine, as if I were the very heart of his universe, I couldn't help but melt into him.

Paula McLain

You are everything good and straight and fine and true—and I see that so clearly now, in the way you’ve carried yourself and listened to your own heart. You’ve changed me more than you know, and will always be a part of everything I am. That’s one thing I’ve learned from this. No one you love is ever truly lost.