Hardened Heart Quotes

• Don’t be afraid to speak from personal experience; in many ways, those vulnerable moments will be the key that unlocks a hardened heart.

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  Luis Palau

  Inspirational   Heart   Keys  

  Luis Palau, Timothy L. Robnett (2006). “Telling the Story: Evangelism for the Next Generation”, p.1895, Gospel Light Publications

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• Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

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  Charles Dickens

  Love   Inspirational   Life  

  Charles Dickens (2009). “Our Mutual Friend”, p.455, Cosimo, Inc.

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

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  Jeremiah

  Heart   Wicked   Deceit  

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• If the heart becomes hardened, the eye becomes dry.

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  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Eye   Heart   Dry  

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• Loving a holy God is beyond our moral power. The only kind of God we can love by our sinful nature is an unholy god, an idol made by our own hands. Unless we are born of the Spirit of God, unless God sheds His holy love in our hearts, unless He stoops in His grace to change our hearts, we will not love Him... To love a holy God requires grace, grace strong enough to pierce our hardened hearts and awaken our moribund souls.

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  R. C. Sproul

  Strong   Heart   Hands  

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• Only unconditional grace can transform a hardened heart into a grateful heart. Only a free gift can demolish any notion of quid pro quo. Only an utterly merciful act of love can fashion a new creation capable of love. As theologian Karl Barth puts it, 'As the beloved of God, we have no alternative but to love him in return.

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  Mark Galli

  Fashion   Grateful   Heart  

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• I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to fear.

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  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Real   Heart   Punishment  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky”, p.13, Modern Library

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• Lovesick, bitter and hardened heart. Aching, waiting for life to start

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  Bil Keane

  Heart   Waiting   Bitter  

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