Hard heart
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A hard heart is sometimes viewed negatively in prophetic literature, and positively in Stoicism.
Quotes
edit- I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
- Ezekiel 36:26 ESV
- The opposite of freedom is not determinism, but hardness of heart. Freedom presupposes openness of heart, of mind, of eye and ear.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Prophets (1962), Volume 1, p. 191
- If among you, one of your brothers should become poor, in any of your towns within your land that the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother.
- Moses, Deuteronomy 15:7 ESV
