A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.”
The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young. Inside this aging body is a heart still as curious, still as hungry, still as full of longing as it was in youth. I sit at the window and watch the world pass by, feeling like a stranger in a...
More often than not, it is your broken heart that opens your loving heart.
Death and resurrection. It’s the impossibility around which every other impossibility of the Christian faith orbits. Baptism declares that God is in the business of bringing dead things back to life, so if you want in on God’s business, you better prepare to follow...
Fear narrows the little entrance of our heart. It shrinks up our capacity to love. It freezes up our power to forgive ourselves.
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones. from Jane Eyre
Don't dismiss the heart, even if it's filled with sorrow. God's treasures are buried in broken hearts.
You can go to the gym, drink your water, and take your vitamins, but if you don't deal with the stuff going on in your heart and head you're still going to be unhealthy.
"Sometimes," said Pooh, "the smallest things take up the biggest room in your heart." from Winnie the Pooh
No more apologies for a bleeding heart when the opposite is no heart at all. Danger of losing our humanity must be met with more humanity.