heart-work

• “We make nothing of our religious performances if we do not make heart-work of them, if that which is within us, nay, if all that is within us, be not engaged in them.”

  Psalm 103 - Part 2

• “As he scanned the pages which witnessed Sebastian's heart-work throughout those long months his face hardened.”

  Story-Lives of Great Musicians

• “But it is head-work and heart-work too, and the men who wrought at it wrought with such intensity and constancy that they did not once look up or round where we paused to look on.”

  Seven English Cities

• “-- The manner of Faith's slow words told of a great deal of heart-work.”

  Say and Seal, Volume II

• “I fear it was more intellectual than heart-work with him, but I made use of the opportunity, to preach Jesus before all, who through this conversation had been drawn round us.”

  A Narrative of some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller Written by Himself, Third Part

• “This has been a sad long letter of business, with no room in it for what honest Bunyan terms heart-work.”

  The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb

• “We make nothing of our religion if we do not make heart-work of it.”

  Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)

• “God must be heart-work; all that is within us must be employed therein and engaged thereby.”

  Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)

• “We make nothing of our religion, whatever our profession be, if we do not make heart-work of it.”

  Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)

• “It is the ruin of hypocrites, that they have no root; they do not act from a living fixed principle; they do not mind heart-work, and without that religion is nothing; for he is the Christian, that is one inwardly.”

  Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)

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