“The heart of Christ can be seen through the openings of his wounds. For what can prove to me so clearly as your wounds that you, O Lord Jesus, are sweet & mild & plenteous in mercy.” HeartSufferingJesusChristLordSweetProveMercyWoundsOpeningProve To Me Author:Bernard of Clairvaux
“Love is such a simple thing when we have only one-and-twenty summers and a sweet girl of seventeen trembles under our glance, as if she were a bud first opening her heart with wondering rapture to the morning. Such young unfurrowed souls roll to meet each other like two velvet peaches that touch softly and are at rest; they mingle as easily as two brooklets that ask for nothing but to entwine themselves and ripple with ever-interlacing curves in the leafiest hiding-places.” IfsLoveFirstsHeartTwoSoulYoungGirlAsksSimpleLove IsWonderMorningLove YouYouthSweetSummerTwentiesOpeningHidingGlancesCurvesBudSimple ThingsRaptureRippleVelvetSeventeenPeachesHiding PlaceSweet Girl Book:Adam Bede: Top Novelist Focus Source: Adam Bede: Top Novelist Focus
“Oft as by chance, a little while apart The pall of empty, loveless hours withdrawn, Sweet Beauty, opening on the impoverished heart, Beams like a jewel on the breast of dawn.” HeartLittlesHoursChanceBeautySweetEmptyOpeningDawnBreastsJewelsBeamLoveless Book:Alan Seeger: the complete works Source: Alan Seeger: the complete works
“Indeed, there is a moment on the first CD - the electrifying opening to "I Got Loaded," which sounds like an R&B standard but isn't - when you might find yourself asking whether anyone who has ever been smitten by pop music can fail to have his heart stopped by the chords, the swing, and, once again, Steve Berlin's wonderfully greasy sax.” FirstsHeartMomentsMightSoundFailingStandardsAskingPopsOpeningFinding YourselfSwingsChordsBerlinCdsPop MusicLoadedSmitten Book:Songbook Source: Songbook
“Community is a place where the connections felt in our hearts make themselves known in the bonds between people, and where the tuggings and pullings of those bonds keep opening our hearts.” PeopleHeartFeltCommunityKnownConnectionsOpeningPullingTuggingOpening Our Hearts Author:Parker J. Palmer