When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it's not common sense yet.
Human nature makes it easy to bicker like children, but the human heart makes it possible to squelch the noise our head creates.
The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of heart manifest in the levity and cruelty with which they speak of others.
Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.
Hardness ever of hardness is mother.
That heart alone is hard which does not shudder at itself for not feeling its hardness.
I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.
Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.
The Fall is an offense to human reason, but once accepted, it makes perfect sense of the human condition.
Poetry makes sense of the parts of human experience that are confusing and not decodable in any other way. It makes accessible the inaccessible.
Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the religious search for God.
There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.
A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It's a creator of inwardness.
Most of the time, when someone tells you something, and it makes sense, it just makes sense. And that's that. But sometimes it really doesn't make sense.
Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin.
Lust hath these three companions: the first, blindness of understanding; the second, hardness of heart; the third, want of grace.