Hardness Of Heart Quotes:

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

- Theodore Roosevelt

topic: Heart, Thinking, Political, Softness, Hardness

The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of heart manifest in the levity and cruelty with which they speak of others.

- Edward Irving

topic: Respect, Heart, Grieving, Hardness, Levity

There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.

- Johann Kaspar Lavater

topic: Heart, Humility, Pride, Impudence, Hardness Of Heart

Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Spiritual, Heart, Saddened, Hardness Of Heart

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

- Pope Francis

topic: Hurt, Prayer, Heart, Hardness, Boundless Love

The realization of our soul has its moral and its spiritual side. The moral side represents training of unselfishness, control of desire; the spiritual side represents sympathy and love. They should be taken together and never separated. The cultivation of the merely moral side of our nature leads us to the dark region of narrowness and hardness of heart, to the intolerant arrogance of goodness; and the cultivation of the merely spiritual side of our nature leads us to a still darker region of revelry in intemperance of imagination.

- Rabindranath Tagore

source: Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Essays”, p.90, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

topic: Spiritual, Taken, Heart, Sympathy And Love, Hardness

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?

- Jeremiah

topic: Heart, Wicked, Deceitful, Heart To Heart, Divided Heart

Lust hath these three companions: the first, blindness of understanding; the second, hardness of heart; the third, want of grace.

- Saint Basil

topic: Heart, Lust, Grace, Hardness, Hardness Of Heart

Hardness of heart is a dreadful quality, but it is doubtful whether in the long run it works more damage than softness of head.

- Theodore Roosevelt

source: Theodore Roosevelt (1904). “Addresses and Presidential Messages of Theodore Roosevelt, 1902-1904”

topic: Running, Heart, Long, Doubtful, Hardness

As Lent is the time for greater love, listen to Jesus' thirst...'Repen t and believe' Jesus tells us. What are we to repent? Our indifference, our hardness of heart. What are we to believe? Jesus thirsts even now, in your heart and in the poor -- He knows your weakness. He wants only your love, wants only the chance to love you.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Jesus, Believe, Love You, Catholic Faith, Catholic Saint

Forgiveness isn't always a one-time thing. There are layers of it that need to be recognized in any situation -especially in a marriage. Sometimes we think we have forgiven, but we don't realize how many layers there are. And if we don't deal with each layer, hardness of heart can set in and build up to monumental proportions.

- Stormie Omartian

topic: Heart, Thinking, Needs, Hardness Of Heart

Are you becoming more sweet-spirited, more like Jesus? Are you looking soberly in the mirror each day and praying, ‘Lord, I want to conform to Your image in every area of my life’? Or has your bitterness taken root, turning into rebellion and hardness of heart? Have you learned to shield yourself from the convicting voice of God’s Spirit?

- David Wilkerson

topic: Sweet, Jesus, Taken, Hardness, Voice Of God

Christ's voice sounds now for each of us in loving invitation; and dead in sin and hardness of heart though we be, we can listen and live. Christ Himself, my brother, sows the seed now. Do you take care that it falls not on, but in, your souls.

- Alexander MacLaren

topic: Brother, Fall, Heart, Hardness, Hardness Of Heart

O what hardness of heart mayst thou see in every corner whither thou goest, and where thou preachest, most part being as unconcerned as the very stones of the wall; and say what thou wilt, either by setting before them alluring promises or dreadful threatenings, yet people are hardened against both, none relenting for what they have done, or concerned about it.

- Thomas Boston

topic: Wall, Heart, People, Hardness Of Heart