Desire Quote by Peter Kreeft Download Open image “A pure heart means a single heart, a heart in which only one desire lives: love.” — Peter Kreeft ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire Heart Love Love & life Mean Pure Pure heart
A pure heart is one that is unencumbered, unworried, uncommitted and which does not want its own way about anything but which, rather, is… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
To be pure in heart is to take no delight in cunning, but converse sincerely with men, and express nothing, by word or look,… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“What is a pure heart? It is meek, humble, guileless, simple, trusting, true, unsuspicious, gentle, good, not covetous, not envious, not adulterous.” — St. John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
A pure heart is perhaps one which has no natural propulsion towards anything in any manner whatsoever. When in its extreme simplicity such a… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
The pure heart is one that is entirely cut away from self. To be selfless is to be pure. — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
Who is pure in heart? Only those who have surrendered their hearts completely to Jesus that he may reign in them alone. Only those… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Purity of heart means the control of the imagination and the rigorous care of the affections. — F.B. Meyer Copy Share Image
The pure heart is a spotless mirror in which images of infinite beauty are reflected. — Rumi Copy Share
A loving heart, a heart full of love, is the precious essence of human life. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
A pure heart embraces all beings and all conditions, without exception. — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
“I strongly suspect that if we saw all the difference even the tiniest of our prayers to God make, and all the people those… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
God's love is as objective as light. Because the sun in a sense is light, or the source of light rather than being lit,… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The self is like a baseball. Throw it back to the divine pitcher who pitched it to you in the first place, and the… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or Dutch or… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Humility is the marriage bond of Heaven. Pride is the frigidity of Hell. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Socrates says we must be either fools because we think we are wise, or wise because we know we are fools. Christ says we… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
No sane person wants hell to exist. No sane person wants evil to exist. But hell is just evil eternalized. If there is evil… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Science only answers the question, How does it work? Or at most, What's there? Science asks what and how, philosophy asks why, myth and… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The most compelling evidence for God's existence is Christ. If God does not exist, then Christ was the biggest fool who ever lived. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“One moment of prayer, of weak worship, confused contrition, tepid thanksgiving, or pitiful petition will bring us closer to God than all the books… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
God's interventions are miracles: events that cannot happen by merely natural agents but only by a supernatural agent. They no more interfere with our… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is… — John Burns Copy Share Image
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image