The Soul Quotes

Deformity of the heart I call The worst deformity of all; For what is form, or what is face, But the soul's index, or its case?

Nature, through all her works, in great degree, Borrows a blessing from variety. Music itself her needful aid requires To rouse the soul, and wake our dying fires.

What are the odds so long as the fire of the soul is kindled at the taper of conviviality, and the wing of friendship never molts a feather?

I hate playing the piano! And it's so hard to fight for Beethoven's soul! But that's what I have to do!

Faith is mind at its best, its bravest, and its fiercest. Faith is thought become poetry, and absorbing into itself the soul's great, passions. Faith is intellect carried up to its transfigurement.

I am not aware that payment, or even favors, however gracious, bind any man's soul and conscience in questions of highest morality and highest importance.

The body whips the soul. In its great desire it demands the elixir In the roar of spring, transmutations.

Feast of the Holy Cross Does not every man feel, that there is corruption enough within him to drive him to the commission of the greatest enormities, and eternally to destroy his soul?

You'll never be a winner of souls unless you're first a weeper for souls.

True prayer is an approach of the soul by the Spirit of God to the throne of God.

Think lightly of hell, and you will think lightly of the cross. Think little of the sufferings of lost souls, and you will soon think little of the Savior who delivers them.

I know nothing that can so comfort the soul, so calm the swelling billows of grief and sorrow, so speak peace to the winds of trial, as a devout musing upon the subject of the Godhead.

I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel-- Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls.

I cook the food of Macau, my roots and soul food.

Mania is fun. I won't lie, it's fun. But it's usually followed by a soul-crushing depression.

I'm drawn to this range, that's for sure, but I suppose the thing that most appeals to me about Mandelstam is the sense you get from every poem that everything - the poet's very soul - is at stake.

The purpose of life is not to maintain personal comfort; it's to grow the soul.

If you have no soul you can gut it out. You know, like a marionette, you'll just follow what seems to actually give you whatever you ain't got.

The body ages. grows. passes through near-lunatic phases of reproductive frenzy, but you are born and die essentially the same person. That... that is proof of your deathless soul.

Once a decision is made to be tasteful and risk-free, all spark, soul, variety, sleaze, spontaneity and fun go right out the window

Though her soul requires seeing, the culture around her requires sightlessness. Though her soul wishes to speak its truth, she is pressured to be silent.

At the soul level, we get precisely what we need in our lives for our spiritual growth. How we judge what we get determines whether we experience life as painful or joyful.

If words could break souls, my words just broke his in two.

We must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul.

The U.S. prosecution service is eating at the soul of the American republic. It is an absolute danger to everyone.

It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.

Education is soul crafting.

The dance is the mother of the arts, The dance breaks down the distinction of body & soul.

Sing then the core of dark and absolute oblivion where the soul at last is lost in utter peace.

It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.

Chaos claims the unwary or the incomplete. A true man may flinch away its embrace, if he is stalwart, and he girds his soul with the armour of contempt.

A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.

We are all eaters of souls.

Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false semblance in the twilight gloom.

I practice stoic philosophy. As a human being, you may have emotions, but these don't need to affect your soul. The two are not one.

Psychology doesn't address the soul; that's something else.

A soul-based workplace asks things of me that I didn't even know I had. It's constantly telling me that I belong to something large in the world.

Freedom is Letting Go.

The universe has a body and soul and evolves through cosmic time. As microcosms of stardust, we do the same.

Delight comes only when our soul dances and plays with another.

Do not be reactive and vengeful and if you look deeply into your anguish, you will see that it is the anguish of our wounded collective soul.

As the body cannot be sustained without corporeal food, nor continue in natural life, so without this life-giving food the soul cannot persist in the spiritual life of grace.

I talk to you as I talk to my own soul," he said, turning me to face him. He reached up and cupped my cheek, fingers light on my temple. "And Sassenach," he whispered, "Your face is my heart.

Libraries change lives. They are the soul of a people.

Give me the beat, boys, and free my soul. I want to get lost in the rock and roll, and drift away.

Kenneth Hari is a true artist and in my opinion a psychic. When he is painting you, he feels your heart and soul.

It is interesting ... how weapons reflect the soul of the maker.

Everything I do is a matter of heart, body and soul.

When a writer admits that he has an affection for something which he has written, it is high time to pray for his soul.

A great means to preserve continual peace and tranquillity of soul is to receive everything from the hands of God, both great and small, and in whatever way it comes.