The Soul Quotes
The world is a great poem, and the world's The words it is writ in, and we souls the thoughts.
Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple.
The true measure of a city is its soul. This is the restless energy that doesn't wait for political leadership.
You ought not to heal the body without the soul, for this is the great error of our day in treating the human body.
Confidence begets confidence. Courage, an independent spark from heaven's bright throne, By which the soul stands raised, triumphant, high, alone. Courage in danger is half the battle.
The sacraments infuse holiness into the terrain of man's humanity: they penetrate the soul and body, the femininity and masculinity of the personal subject, with the power of holiness.
Only for today, I will devote ten minutes of my time to some good reading, remembering that just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul
Painting transports me into another dimension which, quite literally, refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can't reach.
His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy!
Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.
Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.
Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.
We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.
A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant.
Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.
The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal.
The witness is always in the here and now and it lives in each instant of living. To be in the witness is to listen with a still heart, with a waiting, open soul, without clinging, without opinions.
We've gotten lost in our Ego and have forgotten that our Soul's only motive is to merge with the Beloved.
Genuine asceticism for finding one's own soul and for the good of humanity is worthy of reverence.
A man knows no more in religion than he loves and embraceth with the affections of his soul.
God will have the body partake with the soul-as in matters of grief, so in matters of joy; the lanthorn shines in the light of the candle within.
One could say the higher the spirit goes, the more deeply the soul sinks down into the waters of melancholy and tragedy. Drowning in that water is as sweet as rising.
No matter how reclusive we tend to be, we picture the after-life as a community of souls. It is one thing to seek privacy in this life; it is another to face eternity alone.
O soul, be patient: thou shalt find A little matter mend all this; Some strain of music to thy mind, Some praise for skill not spent amiss.
Command that in no way there be in your household any who make strife, discord or divisions in the hostel, but all shall be of one accord, of one will as of one heart and one soul.
Their souls were contagious. ... Bloodsuckers, spiders and vampires: that was what Lenin called them.
Since hate poisons the soul, don't cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy.
He was the freeman whom the truth made free; Who first of all, the bands of Satan broke; Who broke the bands of sin, and for his soul, In spite of fools consulted seriously.
I try to transmit emotion and soul in my voice, but my true passion has always been writing. I feel more like a writer than anything else.
If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.
The body is not hidden from the soul, nor is the soul hidden from the body, and yet the soul is not for everyone to see.
