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Wilkie Collins, “I Say No,” 1886 [Fiction]
His voice had trembled as he appealed to her in those simple words. He had taken the right way at last to produce an impression on her. She really felt for him. All that was true and tender in her nature began to rise in her and take his part. Unhappily, he felt too deeply and too strongly to be patient, and to give her time. He completely misinterpreted her silence — completely mistook the motive that made her turn aside for a moment to gather composure enough to speak to him. “Ah!” he burst out, bitterly, turning away on his said, “you have no heart!”
She instantly resented those unjust words. At that moment, they wounded her to the quick.
“You know best,” she said. “I have no doubt you are right. Remember one thing, however, though I have no heart, I have never encouraged you, Mr. Moody. I have declared over and over again that I could only be your friend. Understand that for the future, if you please. There are plenty of nice women who will be glad to marry you, I have no doubt. You will lawyers have my best wishes for your welfare. Good morning. Her ladyship will wonder what has become of me. Be so kind as to let me pass.”
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The Conservator, 1905
When the heart ripens the taste of life is sweet. I don’t go a whole lot on manners. I don’t go a whole lot on words. I don’t go a whole lot on the clothes you wear. I don’t go a whole lot on the swell job you have somewhere or other. I don’t go a whole lot on the titles that come before and after your name. I am far from saying that these things are useless. But I think I see things that are more useful. I am just as far from saying that these things should not be cultivated. But I think I know things that could be cultivated with more profit. Yes, with infinitely more profit. There is a best something else that is more significant than the best English. I do not care to assert ate you have no heart. But I say that when I ask you for heart you must not offer me manners. When I ask you for justice you must not offer me politeness. I do not reject your manners. I do reject your injustice. I would rather have justice handed out to me with bad grammar than suffer exploitation bathed in perfume. We must have heart. Heart that can see. Not dead heart. Not blind heart. The heart most not be only heart. The heart must also know what it is about. Nothing can make up for a shortage of heart.
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Charles Bullock, Home Words for Heart and Hearth, 1877
Hence comes a wavering, hesitating spirit. Persons would have the one side, but not the other. They wish for the privileges of the Gospel, but shrink from its precepts. They want the joys of God’s people, but have no heart to bear the cross and confess Christ’s name in the world. They dare not cast off the profession of the Gospel, lest they shall be shut out of heaven; but again and again they turn aside from the King’s highway, and walk in “by-path meadow.”
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Ballou’s Dollar Monthly Magazine, 1875
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Page 577: Love Conquers [Fiction:[ “Earl Courtenay,” she said, “five years ago you had my heart at your feet, and you knew it. But for the sake of worldly caution and prudence you trampled it beneath them and left it to bleed and die, and went away, calling yourself a hero and a martyr, because you would not prevent my marrying a richer man, when you knew that I could never love again. You left me to struggle alone through the five years that ought to have been the happiest of my life, until I have no love of trust left in me. I have no heart to give you now!” And she swept from the room, leaving him crushed and dazed — with something perhaps of the feeling that was in her heart on that night so long ago. But he saw his conduct in a light he had never seen it in before, and he knew she was right. Saw how much happier they might have been together through the struggle, and how much easier love and sympathy would have made it for both. He could have cursed himself for his own cold calculating folly.
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Robert Murray M’Cheyne, Works: Sermon LXXXIV, 1874
Dear friends, the dead souls within the Church are just as dead as they. You too are within reach of the preacher’s voice; you too can see Christ evidently set forth crucified; yet you have no desires after Christ. Your eyes weep not; your bosoms pant not; you have no heart-longings after Christ. (3.) When Israel was in the land of Egypt, they had leeks, and onions, and garlic; they sat by the fleshpots, and did eat bread to the full. They did not cry for manna; they did not seek water out of the flinty rock. So it is with those of you who are unawakened. You have got the leeks and the onions of this world’s pleasures, and profits, and diversions; and you care not for Christ, the bread of life. You do not pant after forgiveness and a new birth; you have no heart-longings for the living water, of which if a man drink he shall never thirst again.
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David Thomas, The Homilist: or, The Pulpit for the People, 1868
III. A Difficult Problem. The whole verse states the problem. “Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it?” The question is, why should a man who has no heart for knowledge, be in possession of all necessary means? These two things are often found together. Plenty of opportunities with a soul indisposed. What thousands have access to universities, libraries, cultured society, foreign countries, who have no heart for knowledge, and they remain fools amidst all. Why should such fools have the means? This is the difficult question that was asked. “Wherefore?” Though I do not presume to reach the grand reason in the mind of God, I can see enough to hush complaints. It is far better to have the heart without the means, than the means without the heart. All men may have the heart.
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Dollar Monthly Magazine: Alice Grayland, 1861 [Fiction]
“It is best that you should know my feelings at once,” replied Allen, “as I cannot respond to the sentiment you have uttered. I thank you for the sympathy you have expressed; but I cannot accept your hand, for I have no heart to give you.”
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Robert Murray M’Cheyne, The Life and Remains, 1856
Page 435: Without heart: “Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart.’ Hosea 7:11. How many of you have no heart for Christ! You see no beauty in him — “no form nor comeliness that you should desire him.” No heart for prayer. You do not love it — you turn away from it with loathing. No heart for holiness — for the pleasures of God, and of heaven. You have a feeling of nausea at the very thought of them.
Such Jesus invites — welcomes — presses to close with him. True, Jesus invites his own: “I love them that love me” — “Come, my people, enter into thy chambers” — “O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock.” True, Jesus invites those who have a sense of sin; “Come unto me, all ye that labor, and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” — “Ho, every one that thirtieth.” — “I will give to him that is athirst.” Yet it is as true that Jesus here invites simple ones — those that have no heart for divine things. Ah, brethren! many of you are like Gallio, “who cared for none of these things.” You have no heart for preaching or praying — no heart for Christ and the eternal world. All your heart is taken up about this world. — about your lusts and pleasures. Ah, silly doves! Jesus calls for you, and does not wish you to perish. You may perish — you may sink into your grave — but it will be with the voice of Jesus ringing in your ear: “How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools heat knowledge?”
Page 438: II. Those whom Satan invites. 1. Simple ones, and without heart. The same persons mentioned in verse 4. I showed you that Christ is caring for those that do not care for him — those who do not know their danger — those who are like Ephraim, a silly dove without heart — those who have no heart for Christ, no heart for holiness — no heart for prayer — Gallios, who care for none of these things. It is a solemn and affecting truth, that Christ is not only loving them that love him, and seeking those who are seeking him, but he is yearning over those of you who are so much lost that you do not seek him — do not care of him. “He is long-suffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.”
Page 551: But a still more important door is open here. The Gospel may be preached openly to the Jews. Twelve years ago, the Jews of Poland would not have come near a Christian church, nor were they willing to converse in private on Christianity. But now they seem to be convinced in their head that their Judaism is false, and that Christianity is true. They have no heart-conviction of sin — no cry, “Men and brethren, what must we do?” Still they are in a translation state, and are most willing to hear the Gospel. Let them alone for a few years, and they will rush onward into the deep infidelity of German Jews: — Send them the glad tidings of a Savior, affectionately preached, and we may warrantably hope that, God working with us, a large remnant shall be saved.
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The Gospel Magazine and Theological Review, 1856
You see again, Sister, here’s an attainment; but flying from the avenger of blood, daubed, clearly dabbed with the blood of the murdered as it were, and flying without any other attainments, than a lost sinner to an Almighty Savior. Those very things that you mind at this moment is setting up as hindrances to a more clear and more intimate closing, are the very, very things which should drive you to it. I have no heart, to come. Very well, Hear what He says, “A new heart will I also give unto you.” Precious Jesus, be it unto us according to thy word. I have no strength to come. Well then, says He, “Let him take hold of my strength; I give the Holy Spirit to all askers.’ I have no love, no holiness, no sense of sin, as I ought to have. Ay, says He, I know all that; but my grace is sufficient for you. I am Almighty to supply, Almighty to save; I want none of your help. And when they had nothing to pay (with) He frankly forgave them both. I have all the fulness of the Godhead, and it is all of your use; you may come in and out, and find pasture; here’s bread from heaven, I give my flesh and blood; light and life; you have many, many enemies, here’s a complete armor for you; you shall overcome by the blood of the Lamb; you will have foes without, and foes within, but receiving constant supplies from my fullness, you will never engage, but looking to me for strength; looking to me for orders, and looking to me for victory, I am your strength — and when you find you have no strength of your own, then come, and make the Lord your strength.
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The Oberlin Evangelist, 1853
Page 2: One indispensable part of this separation is a heart for it. Most plainly so, for God wants no men in his harvest field, whose hearts are not there. You would not want workmen in your field, who have no heart for their work. Neither does God. But He expects us to have this preparation. And He will accept of no man’s excuse from service, that he has no heart to engage in it. The want of a heart for this work is not your misfortune but your fault, your great and damning sin!
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But there are many young men in this college who never give themselves to prayer for the conversion of the world, lest God should send them into this work. You would blush to pray — “Lord, send forth laborers, but don’t send me.” If the reason you don’t want to go is that you have no heart for it, you may write yourself down a hypocrite, and no mistake.
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It is painful to see that many are committing themselves in some way or other against the work. They are putting themselves in a position which of itself forbids their engaging in it. But do not let me ask you, young men, can you expect ever to be saved if when you have the power and the means to engage in this work, you have no heart for it? No, indeed! You knock in vain at the gate of the blessed!~ You may go there and knock; — but what will be the answer? Are ye my faithful servants? Were ye among the few, faithful among the faithless — quick and ready at your Master’s call? O no, no; you studied how you could shun the labor and shirk the self-denial! I know you not! Your portion lies without the city walls!
Page 66: My dear young friends, I know that sorrow fills your hearts. And what shall I say to you? Shall I point you to earthly consolations? I have no heart to do it. You need the comfort of Him who is the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort. There is no sorrow of earth for which He has not healing balm! He is the sinner’s friend — the mourner’s comforter. Cast yourselves upon Him — trust Him — and He will comfort you, sustain you and bless you. With an earnest and sympathizing heart, I do commend you to the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort, and to the good word of his grace.
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