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Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

Matthew 11:29-30, KJV

This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men

Matthew 15:8-9, KJV

And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him. So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.

Matthew 18:34-35, KJV

Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

Matthew 22:37-40, KJV

And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables? The sower soweth the word. And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts,

Mark 4:13-15, KJV

Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God

Acts 8:21, KJV

And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us

Romans 5:5, KJV

And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

Romans 8:27, KJV

But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:) Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)

Romans 10:6-7, KJV

That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

Romans 10:9, KJV

For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.

Hebrews 8:10-11, KJV

And You cried to me from afar: "Yet truly, I AM that I AM." And I heard, as the heart hear, nor had I room to doubt, and I should sooner doubt that I live than that Truth is not, which is clearly seen, being understood by those things which are made.

Augustine, Confessions

But when a deep consideration had from the secret bottom of my soul drawn together and heaped up all my misery in the sight of my heart;

Augustine, Confessions

But yet this same father had no concern how I grew towards You, or how chaste I were; so that I were but copious in speech, however barren I were to Your culture, O God, who are the only true and good Lord of Your field, my heart.

Augustine, Confessions

My heart, O Lord, touched with the words of Your Holy Scripture, is much busied, amid this poverty of my life.

Augustine, Confessions

So much better are things spiritual than things corporeal, and things invisible than things visible; which doubtless is that which the prophet promises: "The eye hath not seen, nor the ear heard, nor has it entered into the heart of man to consider what God has provided for them that love Him." And this is that Mary's better part which is not taken away by change of life, but perfected

Erasmus, In Praise of Folly

I desire continually to fling heart and soul at thy feet; Dust on the head of the soul which is not the dust of thy feet!

Rumi

I rocked to and fro that the child, my heart, might become still; A child sleeps when one sways the cradle.

Rumi

I will not shun thy blow, for very crude Is the heart ne'er burned in the fire of thy affliction

Rumi

Since the steel face gained this purity by discrimination, What needs the heart's face, which has no dust? But betwixt the steel and the heart is this difference, That the one is a keeper of secrets, while the other is not.

Rumi

Thou in truth shouldst be one, yet not with the whole shouldst thou be so. 'Tis through the reason thou'rt one,-art so with it through the heart. Voice of the whole is thy reason, but thou thine own heart must be ever; If in thy heart reason dwells evermore, happy art thou

Schiller, Beauteous Individuality <3

God alone sees the heart and therefore, since he alone sees it, Be it our care that we, too, something that's worthy may see

Schiller, Inside and Outside

Both of us seek for truth-in the world without thou dost seek it, I in the bosom within; both of us therefore succeed. If the eye be healthy, it sees from without the Creator; And if the heart, then within doubtless it mirrors the world.

Schiller, The Agreement

Wouldst thou know thyself, observe the actions of others. Wouldst thou other men know, look thou within thine own heart.

Schiller, The Key

In the future lives the heart: Is the present sad indeed? 'T is but a moment, all will pass; Once in the past, it shall be dear.

Pushkin, Consolation

Of all, whose hearts his words made flame, It may be, one will shed a tear, As memory recalls some scene Of joy long buried in his grave — And wherefore weep?

Pushkin, The Grave of a Youth

Guard against the smoke of the sore-afflicted heart, for an inside sore will at last gather into a head. Give nobody's heart pain so long as thou canst avoid it, for one sigh may set a whole world into a flame.

Saadi, Gulistan

I have heard that the heroes on the path of God will not distress the hearts of their enemies. How canst thou attain this dignified station who art at strife and warfare with thy friends?

Saadi, Gulistan

Money makes no stay in the hand of a religious independent; neither does patience in a lover's heart, nor water in a sieve.

Saadi, Gulistan

Such as deal hard with the weak will suffer from the extortion of the strong: — It is not every arm in which there is strength that can wrench the hand of a weak man. Bring not affliction upon the hearts of the feeble, lest thou may'st fall under the lash of the strong.

Saadi, Gulistan

Set not thine heart upon this material abode, For thou wilt not find therein delight for thy soul

Saadi, Scroll of Wisdom

Since justice is the adornment of royalty, Why dost thou not fix thine heart upon justice?

Saadi, Scroll of Wisdom

When fortune is a person's slave His heart is perpetually disposed towards obedience

Saadi, Scroll of Wisdom

Whosoever hath a heart filled with gratitude to God, It is not becoming that he should tie up the tongue of praise. Teach thy soul nought but gratitude to God, For it is necessary to praise the Creator

Saadi, Scroll of Wisdom

And let this world no longer be a stage But let one spirit of the firstborn Cain Reign in all bosoms, that, each heart being set On bloody courses, the rude scene may end, And darkness be the burier of the dead.

Shakespeare, Henry IV Part 2, Act 1, Scene 1

An habitation giddy and unsure Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart

Shakespeare, Henry IV Part 2, Act 1, Scene 3

Thus act so evilly born shall cool the hearts Of all his people and freeze up their zeal, That none so small advantage shall step forth To cheque his reign, but they will cherish it

Shakespeare, King John, Act 3, Scene 1

Or some fierce thing replete with too much rage, Whose strength's abundance weakens his own heart;

Shakespeare, Sonnet 23