Edward Payson: Quotes about heart

Edward Payson was American religious leader. Explore interesting quotes on heart.
Edward Payson: 18   quotes 3   likes

“I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.”

Edward Payson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 579.

Heart

“As in poetry, so in prayer, the whole subject matter should be furnished by the heart, and the understanding should be allowed only to shape and arrange the effusions of the heart in the manner best adapted to answer the end designed. From the fullness of a heart overflowing with holy affections, as from a copious fountain, we should pour forth a torrent of pious, humble, and ardently affectionate feelings; while our understandings only shape the channel and teach the gushing streams of devotion where to flow, and when to stop.”

Edward Payson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 464.

Feeling , Understanding , Heart

“Our public prayers too often consist almost entirely of passages of Scripture—not always judiciously chosen or well arranged — and common-place phrases, which have been transmitted down for ages, from one generation to another, selected and put together just as we would compose a sermon or essay, while the heart is allowed no share in the performance; so that we may more properly be said to make a prayer than to pray.”

Edward Payson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 472.

Age , Heart