“Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point. And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. .... In this cold, irreligious and practical age the warmth of this devotion to art has kept alive many higher aspirations of our soul, which otherwise might readily have died, as they did in the middle of the last century.” HeartArtSoulMightAgeLastsCultureEmotionChristianityAliveInfluenceMiddleCenturyColdHigherBenefitsDiedPracticalsDevotionAspirationMysticismWarmthBarrenIntellectualismIntoxicationDominatingFreezing Book:Lectures on Calvinism Source: Lectures on Calvinism
“And in the middle of one of those scenes, I suddenly felt my heart just open: it was overwhelming, to the point where I got teary-eyed. Never would I have thought anything like that could happen in a love scene.” HeartHappensFeltMiddleMy HeartSceneOverwhelming Author:Sheryl Lee
“Baalbek is so beautiful. It is the heart of beauty in the Middle East - I want to embrace these people with my music. I will try so hard for them. Their president is a Christian, their prime minister is a Muslim. Music is for everyone.” PeopleWantTryingHeartHardChristianBeautifulPresidentMiddleMusic IsEmbraceEastMinistersPrimeMiddle EastPrime Minister Author:Mstislav Rostropovich
“Virtues are in the middle, the royal way about which the saintly elder (Saint Basil the Great) said, "Travel on the royal way and count the miles." As I said, the virtues are at the midpoint between excess and laxness. That is why it is written, "Do not turn to the right or the left" (Prov 4:27) but travel on the "royal way" (Num. 20:17). Saint Basil also says, "The person who does not allow his thoughts to incline towards excess or deprivation but directs it to the midpoint, that of virtue, is upright in heart."” WayHeartPersonsDoeSaidTruthTurnsLeftVirtueWrittenMiddleSaintMilesExcessRoyalEldersDeprivationInclineBasil Author:Dorotheus of Gaza
“Beautiful city! . . . spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age . . . her ineffable charm. . . . Adorable dreamer, whose heart has been so romantic!” HeartHas BeensAgeLastsBeautifulCitiesMiddleGardenCharmDreamerTowersMoonlightMiddle AgesWhisperingEnchantmentOxfordAdorableIneffableBeautiful City Author:Matthew Arnold
“What if, instead of being afraid of even talking about death, we saw our lives in some ways as preparation for it. What if we were taught to ponder it and reflect on it and talk about it and enter it and rehearse it and try it on?What if, rather than being cast out and defined by some terminal category, you were identified as someone in the middle of a transformation that could deepen your soul, open your heart, and all the while-even if and particularly when you were dying-you would be supported by and be part of a community?” IfsWayTryingHeartSoulWould BeCommunityTalkingSawsOur LivesMiddleDyingTaughtTransformationCastsDefinedPreparationYour SoulWhat IfCategoriesPonderingBeing AfraidOpen Your HeartTerminalIfs And Author:Eve Ensler
“The Marxist critique is only a critique of capital, a critique coming from the heart of the middle and petit bourgeois classes, for which Marxism has served for a century as a latent ideology.... The Marxist seeks a good use of economy. Marxism is therefore only a limited petit bourgeois critique, one more step in the banalization of life toward the "good use" of the social!” HeartUseSocialStepsClassEconomyMiddleCenturyIdeologyMarxismCritiqueBourgeoisMarxistLatent Author:Jean Baudrillard
“Europe is a woman, now middle-aged, who has already had a number of heart attacks and is currently experiencing the biggest health crisis of her life, but one that need not be fatal.” NeedsHeartNumbersMiddleEuropeCrisisMiddle AgedHeart Attack Author:Timothy Garton Ash