Quotes About Souls

We are global citizens with tribal souls', said the Danish poet Piet Hein.

Had I as many souls as there be stars, I'd give them all for Mephistopheles!

His aster-blue eyes shown out from a face blackened by bruises and soot, his fair hair glittering in the firelight. Dressed all in black, silhouetted against flame, he looked rather like a demon, raised from the dead, trading for souls on the other side.

The least urgent souls on earth with a thousand obstacles and superstitions to interfere with the accomplishment of work.

As to women, I agree that each has three or four souls, but none of them a reasoning one.

Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to men having barbarian souls.

There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he for ever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than other birds upon the plain, even though they soar.

It shows how unaccountable men are, what they harbour in their souls: which by no means shows on their faces.

They could fall in love with fresh, new people, or they could have the courage and humility to tear off some essential layer of themselves and reveal to each other a whole new level of otherness, a level far beyond what sort of music they liked. It seemed to her everyone had too much self-protective pride to truly strip down to their souls in front of their long-term partners. It was easier to pretend there was nothing more to know, to fall into an easygoing companionship.

everyone had too much self-protective pride to truly strip down to their souls in front of their long-term partners.

If we might reverently imagine ourselves scheming beforehand what kind of book the Book of God ought to be, how different would it be from the actual Bible! There would be as many Bibles as there are souls, and they would differ as widely. But in one thing, amid all their differences, they would probably agree: they would lack the variety, both in form and substance, of the Holy Book which the Church of God places in the hands of her children.

missionaries are now rushing in droves to the Solomons to convert their wicked souls.

They were not beggars; well, not in the usual sense. They were Christians, who wanted not just my nephew's money but their souls.

The rythm of our bodies, she believed, is linked to our souls' pulse. 'Praying For Sleep

The girls had created a shrine to their dead sister. Those who attended church said the window resemled the Grotto at St. Paul's Catholic Church on the Lake, but instead of the neat ascending rows of votive candles, each alike in size and importances like the souls they pilot-lighted, the girls had engineered a phantasmagoria of beacons. ... The candles were a two way mirrow between worlds: they called Cecilia back, but also called her sisters to join her.

This summer has been idyllic … more than that, it's the unification of this group of formerly lost souls. It's been a syrupy lovefest for the past three months, and I wish it could last forever. I think about that stupid fucking saying, Absence makes the heart grow fonder , and I want to barf. I'm already beyond fond of everyone, so I'm all set.

The Devil loved watching children pour down the front steps of the high school like lava from a volcano. Trolling for souls. He posed in one of his favorite guises today, a school bus driver.

We bow with respect and gratitude before all the great human souls of the past and present - the sages, the righteous, the prophets, the saints of all continents and all epochs throughout the whole of human history - and we are ready to learn from them all that they wish and are able to teach, but we have only one sole Initiator or Lord; we are obliged to reiterate this for the sake of certainty.

most people never experience such a passion, that I had been incredibly, divinely fortunate to have found, in a world where most souls dig there own graves with the sharp edge of their bitter loneliness...

Our souls find their fulfillment and rest when we walk in obedience to our ultimate calling—to know Jesus and make Him known.

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

If your church isn't winning souls, I hope you go out of business

Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds.