Marcus J. Borg Quote

Keep these words that I am commanding you today in your heart (Deut. 6:6). Serve the Lord your God with all your heart (Deut. 10:12). Incline your hearts to the Lord, the God of Israel (Josh. 24:23). Return to the Lord with all your heart (1 Sam. 7:3). The Lord looks on the heart (1 Sam. 16:7). I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart (Ps. 9:1). Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to you (Ps. 19:14). In God my heart trusts (Ps. 28:7). Your law is within my heart (Ps. 40:8). Create in me a clean heart, O God (Ps. 51:10). So teach us to count our days that we may gain a wise heart (Ps. 90:12). Search me, O God, and know my heart (Ps. 139:23). Incline your heart to understanding (Prov. 2:2). Trust in the Lord with all your heart (Prov. 3:5). My child, give me your heart (Prov. 23:26). The heart is devious above all else (Jer. 17:9). I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts (Jer. 31:33). Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also (Matt. 6:21). Out of the heart come evil intentions (Matt. 15:19). Mary treasured all these words and pondered them in her heart (Luke 2:19). God searches the heart (Rom. 8:27). The God who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness,’ has shone in our hearts (2 Cor. 4:6). God has sent the Spirit of God’s Son into our hearts, crying, ‘Abba! Father!’ (Gal. 4:6). May you be strengthened in your inner being with power through God’s Spirit, that Christ may dwell in your hearts (Eph. 3:16–17). The heart is an image for the self at a deep level, deeper than our perception, intellect, emotion, and volition. As the spiritual center of the total self, it affects all of these: our sight, thought, feelings, and will.