Theme: The Heart
For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;
For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.
For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.
To love then, and to be beloved, was sweet to me; but more, when I obtained to enjoy the person I loved, I defiled the spring of friendship with the filth of concupiscence.
But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed.
But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
No object can come at the heart but through the door of the understanding; and there can be no spiritual knowledge of that of which there is not first a rational knowledge.
When a lust hath lain long in the heart, corrupting, festering, cankering, it brings the soul to a woful condition.
For this commandment which I command you today is not too hard for you or too distant. It is not in heaven, that you should say, ‘Who will go up for us to heaven, bring it to us, and proclaim it to us, that we may do it?’ Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, ‘Who will go over the sea for us, bring it to us, and proclaim it to us, that we may do it?’ But the word is very near to you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it.
For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
Praying makes the preacher a heart preacher. Prayer puts the preacher’s heart into the preacher’s sermon; prayer puts the preacher’s sermon into the preacher’s heart. The heart makes the preacher.
The same fire which melts the wax hardens the clay.
Temper is a proof whether the love of Christ is filling the heart, or not.
Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,
Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
Envy, malice, revenge can never long harbor in a gracious intercessor’s breast.
But the goal of this command is love from a pure heart, a good conscience, and sincere faith,
Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:
Water seeks its level persistently; so do one’s words.
There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Hearing is but as the sowing of the seed; talking is not sufficient to prove that fruit is indeed in the heart.
The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
It is the man that makes the action, not the action the man.
And as I spake, I all but enacted it: I all but did it, and did it not.
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