Keep Your Heart With All Vigilance
The heart is the fabric of a man. It is his fibre, his engine room, and his bubbling headwaters to life.
At times men attempt to hide their heart from view through a perceived self-protective necessity. In pride or in fear they choose not to be known. However, many other times despite a man's best efforts his heart's contents are spilled, clearly evidenced by his activity and speech.
Men speak in words, yet their eyes and actions confirm or indeed betray their hearts.
It is difficult to conceal a heart. It is equally difficult to compress water.
Hearts are observed by their thirsts, revealed by their passions.
Feed the heart diligently for spiritual passion, that it is protected.
- The goal of our life is not people. It is God. Only in Him shall we find the rest we seek.#
- It is in solitude I get rid of my scaffolding.# Solitude is the cave of heart-examination.*
- Timely silence is precious, for it is nothing less than the mother of wisest thoughts.#
- Our first and foremost task is faithfully to care for the inward fire, so that when it is really needed it can offer warmth and light to lost travellers.#
- The enormous obstacle of activism is the heart's enemy to prayer.*
- In the multiplying of words there is simply an increase of emptiness, an opportunity for ruin. In this the heart has given ample witness to itself - that it must be heard.*
Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life. (Proverbs 4:23)
The things you hold in your heart will determine the course of your life. ~ Derek Prince
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'Anyone who wants to fight his demons with his own weapons is a fool.' ~ Henri Nouwen
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#Quoted from Henri Nouwen & *Quoted from Michael Cartwright