The Soul Quotes
It is essential not only to the souls of painters and poets, who thrive in solitude, but to the rest of us, too--individuals whose canvas is our lives.
If someone should ask me, 'What does the soul do?' I would say, It does two things. It loves. And it creates. Those are its primary acts.
Personal experience is the lightning of the soul; it transforms the heart in ways that leave the brain behind.
God's job ain't to make our lives easier, it's to make us better souls by the lessons He gives us.
Perhaps the cruelest thing ever said of Hubert Humphrey was that he had the soul of a vice president.
But maybe the best thing I learnt was this: that we cannot know a person's soul and nature until we've sat beside them, and talked.
In point of fact I was a perfectly devoted and dutiful little Catholic—until the day I learned that animals have no souls.
I don't know very many people who can piece together eloquent prayers when their souls are wounded. Words don't come at those times, but tears do. I have always thought of my tears as prayers.
What do you call it when two people have intense shared history? when nothing can separate them? Soul Sisters
This attachment of Love to God is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
In whatever name or form they are offered, all these flowers are laid at God's feet, for He is the one Lord of all, the one Soul of all souls.
Without birth or death, eternal, ever-existing, free, unchangeable and beyond all conditions is this Soul of man - the real Self of Man - the Atman.
Books never make religions, but religions make books. We must not forget that. No book ever created God, but God inspired all the great books. And no book ever created a soul.
Come out into the broad light of day, come out from the little narrow paths, for how can the infinite soul rest content to live and die in small ruts?
Jiva (individual soul) is the conscious ruler of this body, in whom the five life principles come into unity, and yet that very Jiva is the Atman, because all is Atman.
According to us, there are three things in the makeup of man. There is the body, there is the mind, and there is the soul.
Anything that is in space has form. Space itself has form. Either you are in space, or space is in you. The soul is beyond all space. Space is in the soul, not the soul in space.
Him I call a Mahatma (great soul) whose heart bleeds for the poor, otherwise he is a Duratma (wicked soul). Let us unite our wills in continued prayer for their good.
The Kingdom of Heaven is within us. God is within us. He is the Soul of our souls. See Him in your own soul. That is practical religion. That is freedom.
All perfection is there already in the soul. But this perfection has been covered up by nature; layer after layer of nature is covering this purity of the soul.
The Indian idea is that the soul is formless. Whatever is form must break some time or other.
The ego of man and woman is the soul. If the soul is independent, how then can it be isolated from the infinite whole?
Only when creation stops can we find the Absolute. The Absolute is in the soul, not in creation. So by stopping creation, we come to know the Absolute.
You cannot train yourself. I feel the same way about Christianity and about what the church is: The church is the gym of the soul.
What is so real as the cry of a child? A rabbit's cry may be wilder But it has no soul.
The body, after all, older and wiser than soul, being first created, and, like a good horse, if given its way would go home by the best path and at the right pace.
In the same way that a powerful medicine cures an illness, so illness itself is a medicine to cure passion. And there is much profit of soul in bearing illness quietly and giving thanks to God.
The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself.
I'd read somewhere that nine out of ten adults in Alaska had a drinking problem. I could believe it. Snow, ice, sleet, wind, the dark night of the soul: what else were you supposed to do?
Troubled times do call for troubled songs, songs that unsettle our souls and our spirits unapologetically.
Herein lies the heart and soul of the nations. Their right to be free men, Their desire to live in peace, Their courage to seek out truth, Herein lies the Sword of Shannara.
That, lad," he said proudly, "was some of the worst poetry I have heard for a long time. It was offensive to the ear and a torrrture to the soul....We'll make a gonnagle out of ye yet!
When Emily Dickinson writes, “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul,” she reminds us, as the birds do, of the liberation and pragmatism of belief.
Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God - the Teacher of the teacher.
Whatever soul I had, Katie, I think I placed it in your keeping twenty years ago. And now, it's as if...every time we kiss, you give a little piece of it back.
Dedication: For librarians and booksellers everywhere, who gather books and build shelters for tender souls.
In the innermost recesses of humanism, as its very soul, there rages a frantic prisoner who, as a Fascist, turns the world into a prison.
In heaven, knowledge shall be commensurate with the enlarged powers of the glorified soul.
Conversion by the Holy Spirit is a spiritual illumination of the soul. God's grace lights up the dark heart. And when a man has once been kindled at the cross of Christ, he is bound to shine.