See that your chief study be about your heart, that there God’s image may be planted, and his interest advanced, and the interest of the world and flesh subdued, and the love of every sin cast out, and the love of holiness succeed.
— Richard Baxter
The Human Heart
The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood works, is so decked out with deceiving hypocrisy — that it often dupes itself!
— John Calvin
The Heart
Nothing is more contrary to a heavenly hope than an earthly heart.
— William Gurnall
The Heart
Neither prayer, not praise, not the hearing of the word will be profitable to those who have left their hearts behind them.
— C. H. Spurgeon
Keep Your Heart
Keep your heart as you would keep a Garden. Your heart is a garden (Song of Solomon 4:12); weed all sin out of your heart. Among the flowers of the heart, weeds will be growing—the weeds of pride, malice, and covetousness: these grow without planting and cultivating. Therefore be weeding your heart daily by prayer, examination, and repentance.
— Thomas Watson
