Henry Giles: Quotes about heart

Henry Giles was Irish minister. Explore interesting quotes on heart.

Henry Giles: 30 quotes1 like

“It awes by the majesty of its truths, it agitates by the force of its compunctions, it penetrates the heart by the tenderness of its appeals, and it casts over the abyss of thought, the shadow of its eternal grandeur.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 140.

“Brethren, we can rule our tempers, and we ought. Open the gospel, that most profound philosophy of the human soul, and yet most simple and practical directory of human duty; study it, fill your whole nature with its inspiration; set Christ before you; look upon His calm forehead and unstormed breast; think how He endured all contradiction of sinners, and endured them to the cross; and on the cross learn of Him then, for He was meek and lowly of heart.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 376.

“The materials of the first temple were made ready in solitude. Those of the last also must be shaped in retirement; in the silence of the heart; in the quietness of home; in the practice of unostentatious duty.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 45.