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Quotes About Souls

Politics? Boring? Politics is history on the wing! What other sphere of human activity calls forth all that is most noble in men's souls, and all that is most base? Or has such excitement? Or more vividly exposes our strengths and weaknesses? Boring? You might as well say that life itself is boring!
~ Robert Harris
Robin felt a strange thrill of glory at the thought that he bore with him, in virtue of his priesthood only, so much consolation. He faces for the the first time that tremendous call of which he had heard so much in Rheims- that desolate cry of souls that longed and longed in vain for those gifts of which a priest of Christ could alone bestow...
~ ROBERT HUGH BENSON
Nick looks into Brians hollow gaze. "That's what's going on here brian. The devil's figured out a way to keep peoples souls trapped here on earth.
~ Robert Kirkman
Espionage is an effort to find windows into men's souls.
~ Robert Littell
The biggest danger in life is that the food of humans is all made of souls.
~ Roberto Calasso
The overlap between the human and animal dead who go into the spiritual dimension of the earth and the natural spirits
~ Robin Artisson
Under the stars we are as one. Theirs is the power of countless years. They see our grief and know our pain, yet still they shine and their light gives us hope. From acorn to oak, but even the mightiest of oaks shall fall. Thus do we recognize the great wheel of life and death and life once more. We surrender our departed souls under the stars and may the Green gather them to him.
~ Robin Jarvis
They were not beggars; well, not in the usual sense. They were Christians, who wanted not just my nephews' money but their souls.
~ Lindsey Davis
Society is the atmosphere of souls; and we necessarily imbibe from it something which is either infectious or healthful.
~ Joseph Hall
We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.
~ Florence Nightingale
There is a moral and spiritual war for the souls of Americans. And this war must be waged by preaching the Gospel, prayer, and obedience to God's Word.
~ David Jeremiah
The principles that will save Earth's life are the same principles that save the living souls of humans: ineluctable spiritual principles.
~ David James Duncan
The smiles of ancient soulsThat bless this, Our space to live and learnAnd urge us on to shine again…
~ Scott Hastie
To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means.
~ Emanuel Swedenborg
May the Lord comfort the afflicted souls.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
They made figures of brass, and tried to induce souls to indwell them. In some accounts we read that they succeeded; Friar Bacon was credited with one such Homunculus; so was Albertus Magnus, and, I think, Paracelsus. He had, at least, a devil in his long sword 'which taught him all the cunning pranks of past and future mountebanks
~ Aleister Crowley
Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni," she asked, "do you think that our souls grow as we get older?" He did not answer immediately, but when he did, she thought his answer quite perfect. "Yes," he said. "Our souls get wider. They grow like the branches of a tree—growing outwards. And
~ Alexander McCall Smith
I thought... their elegance... lies not so much in their clothes as in their bodies, and their bodies have received it, and continue to unceasingly receive it, from their souls, which are just like yours, lovely Simonetta.
~ Alexander Theroux
If someone takes human choices in the marketplace as his absolute, the end result will be a market in which the fundamental commodity will be the souls of men. But if someone takes the law of God as his direction, the end result will be a market in which a man can buy and sell his cabbages or cabinets or cars without getting permission from some functionary at the Department of Hubris.
~ Douglas Wilson
In seasons of harvest, there is a more urgent need for watchmen, as the "thief" is going to do all he can to steal it, keeping the greater portion. It is little wonder that God has preceded the greatest harvest of souls the world has ever known— which is now happening— with the greatest prayer awakening in history. The Lord of the harvest is wise. I can assure you He has 24- hour sentries "watching" the harvest.
~ Dutch Sheets
We can't turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.
~ William Law
This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise.
~ Dante Alighieri
One debate merged religion and politics. What were the political consequences of the idea of the equality of souls? Could the soul of America be redeemed from the nation's original sin, the Constitution's sanctioning of slavery?
~ Jill Lepore