Best heart & creatures Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The time will soon be here when my grandchild will long for the cry of a loon, the flash of a salmon, the whisper of spruce needles, or the screech of an eagle. But he will not make friends with any of these creatures and when his heart aches with longing, he will curse me. Have I done all to keep the air fresh? Have I cared enough about the water? Have I left the eagle to soar in freedom? Have I done everything I could to earn my grandchild's fondness?”

“The love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his master, and everyone has heard of the dog suffering under vivisection, who licked the hand of the operator; this man, unless he had a heart of stone, must have felt remorse to the last hour of his life.”

Men Heart Has Beens Hands Lasts Suffering Felt Hours Animal Known Heard Dog Masters Creatures Stones Agony Remorse Caress Notorious Operators Vivisection Heart Of Stone

Author:Charles Darwin

“Surely conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows his creatures' hearts. A conversion without a clean heart is, in my opinion, a denial of God and Religion. Conversion without cleanliness of heart can only be a matter of sorrow, not joy, to a godly person.”

Knows Men Heart Persons Matter Joy Opinion Sorrow Conversation Creatures Clean Conversion Denial Makers Godly Cleanliness Clean Heart

Book:Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

“O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer! a brave vessel (Who had no doubt some noble creature in her) Dashed all to pieces! O, the cry did knock Against my very heart! Poor souls, they perished!”

Heart Soul Suffering Poor Doubt Saws Pieces Cry Creatures Brave Noble No Doubt Vessel Tempest Shipwreck Gonzalo From Tempest

Author:William Shakespeare

“The man with a heart cannot think about or see creatures without his eyes filling up with tears because of the immense compassion which seizes his heart.”

Thinking Men Heart Eye Compassion Kindness Tears He Man Creatures His Eyes Immense Filling Filling Up

Author:Isaac of Nineveh

“Nature is always lovely, invincible, glad, whatever is done and suffered by her creatures. All scars she heals, whether in rocks or water or sky or hearts.”

Heart Done Water Nature Sky Rocks Creatures Glad Lovely Heal Scar Invincible

Book:John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

“It may be from some moral obliquity in myself, or from some strange disease; but for me, and I should think too for every human being in whose breast a human heart is beating, to know that one single creature is in that dreadful place would make a hell of heaven itself. And they have hearts in heaven, for they love there.”

Thinking Knows Should Humans Heart May Heaven Human Beings Moral Hell Strange Creatures Disease Breasts Human Heart

Book:The Nemesis of Faith

Source: The Nemesis of Faith

“There is a haunting phantom called Regret, A shadowy creature robed somewhat like woe, But fairer in the face, whom all men know By her said mien, and eyes forever wet. No heart would seek her; but once having met All take her by the hand, and to and fro They wander through those paths of long ago-- Those hallowed ways 'twere wiser to forget.”

Knows Men Way Heart Long Said Hands Eye Faces Forget Forever Path Regret Mets Creatures Wander Wet Long Ago Wiser Woe Haunting Phantoms

Author:Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“If you have given up your heart ... you have already lost. A heartless creature is a loveless creature, and a loveless creature is a beast.”

Ifs Love Heart Lost Given Creatures Beast Given Up Heartless Loveless Dark Tower Series

Book:The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three

Source: The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three

“There are such beings in the world -- perhaps one in a thousand -- as the creature you and I should think perfection; where grace and spirit are united to worth, where the manners are equal to the heart and understanding; but such a person may not come in your way, or, if he does, he may not be the eldest son of a man of fortune, the near relation of your particular friend, and belonging to your own county.”

Source: Jane Austen's correspondence and letters: The complete and definitive edition

“What right has a man to ask Jesus to forgive him, when his heart is still burning with hatred or festering with grudges against a fellow-creature? Confession, to be of any avail, must let go of its hold on the sin confessed.”

Men Heart Stills Asks Jesus Sin Creatures Letting Go Hatred Fellows Forgiving Burning Confession Grudge Festering

Author:Theodore L. Cuyler

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