Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Luther

Faith is the 'yes' of the heart, a conviction on which one stakes one's life.

Martin Luther

The veneration of Mary is inscribed in the very depths of the human heart

Martin Luther

To worship God in spirit is the service and homage of the heart, and implies fear of God and trust in Him.

Martin Luther

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God, your functional savior.

Martin Luther

The slender capacity of man's heart cannot comprehend the unfathomable depth and burning zeal of God's love toward us.

Martin Luther

Does it follow from: 'turn ye' that therefore you can turn? Does it follow from "'Love the Lord thy God with all thy heart' (Deut 6.5) that therefore you can love with all your heart? What do arguments of this kind prove, but the 'free-will' does not need the grace of God, but can do all things by its own power....But it does not follow from this that man is converted by his own power, nor do the words say so; they simply say: "if thou wilt turn,telling man what he should do. When he knows it, and sees that he cannot do it, he will ask whence he may find ability to do it..." 164

Martin Luther

People go through three conversions: The conversion of their head, their heart, and their pocketbook. Unfortunately, not all at the same time.

Martin Luther

The inner man cannot be forced to do out of his own free will, what he should do, except the grace of God change the heart and make it willing.

Nick Cave

I am not interested in anything that doesn't have a genuine heart to it. You've got to have soul in the hole. If that isn't there, I don't see the point.

Nick Cave

I look at you and you look at me and deep in our hearts know it That you weren't much of a muse, but then I weren't much of a poet

Nicholas Lea

I'm living in L.A. but my heart's in Vancouver.

Nancy Gibbs

There may be no less original idea than the notion that our hearts hold dominion over our heads.

Mortimer Adler

Only hidden and undetected oratory is really insidious. What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business.

Ozzy Osbourne

My heart stopped twice. They had to stab me to drain the blood from my lungs because I was drowning in my own blood.

P. G. Wodehouse

When it comes to letting the world in on the secrets of his heart, he has about as much shrinking reticence as a steam calliope.

P. G. Wodehouse

I hadn't the heart to touch my breakfast. I told Jeeves to drink it himself.

P. G. Wodehouse

I was in rare fettle and the heart had touched a new high. I don't know anything that braces one up like finding you haven't got to get married after all.

Ovid

Wine prepares the heart for love, unless you take too much.

Ovid

Sleep, thou repose of all things; sleep, thou gentlest of the deities; thou peace of the mind, from which care flies; who doest soothe the hearts of men wearied with the toils of the day, and refittest them for labor.

Ovid

Truly it is allowed us to weep: by weeping we disperse our wrath; and tears go through the heart, even like a stream. [Lat., Flere licet certe: flendo diffundimus iram: Perque sinum lacrimae, fluminis instar enim.]

Ovid

When the heart is sick it cannot bear the slightest annoyance.

Ovid

For in this strange anatomy we wear, the head has greater powers than the hand; the spirit, heart, and mind are over all.

Ovid

Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Paul Myers

The USA should invade the USA and win the hearts and minds of the population by building roads, bridges and putting locals to work.

Paul Newman

I would like it if people would think that beyond Newman, there's a spirit that takes action, a heart, and a talent that doesn't come from my blue eyes.

Paul Eluard

The curve of your eyes goes around my heart, A round of dance and sweetness, Halo of time, nocturnal and safe cradle, And if I don't know any more all that I've lived through It's because I haven't always been seen by you.

Paul Bowles

Since the world began has any man ever been able to know what would happen tomorrow? The world of men is today. I'm asking you to open your heart today. Tomorrow belongs to Allah ...

Matthew Fox

Our self-expression is meant to be a manifestation of the silence of our hearts.

Matt Groening

You toyed with my heart, like it was a toy heart. (Lisa Simpson)

Matt Groening

I think when 'The Simpsons' first came on, there was an uproar. People got used to it. They realized the show's really funny, it's got a heart, so I think it's pretty safe.

Matt Groening

You should listen to your heart, and not the voices in your head.

Masanobu Fukuoka

Gradually I came to realize that the process of saving the desert of the human heart and revegetating the actual desert is actually the same thing.