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Quotes About Souls

Go, labour on while it is day, The world's dark night is hastening on. Speed, speed thy work, cast sloth away-- It is not thus that souls are won.
~ Horatius Bonar
How many souls have been lost for lack of earnestness, solemnity, and love in the preacher, even when the words uttered were precious and true!
~ Horatius Bonar
I was convinced that birds were kinds of souls. Not the souls of people but of previous birds whose mystery and beauty were so necessary on earth that God would not allow them to be anything in their second life but birds again.
~ Unknown
I guess we're kindred souls and that's why we can feel so close to each other.
~ Unknown
The Roman Church has grown and grown, fueled by immigration but also renewed by two pontiffs who have seemed to understand what Tocqueville knew: People want guidance for their souls once they are convinced they have them.
~ Hugh Hewitt
As Courtney Hall passed through the streets of Great Yu, it was repeated at every tram halt, every public breakfast stall, every Food Corps costermonger's barrow, anger and confusion and shouting voices, a ball of confusion gathering a thousand, ten thousand, a million, ten million souls into itself as it rolled behind Courtney Hall through the boulevards of Yu.
~ Unknown
Closer yet, and she saw that it was a wall of black bricks clean and smooth as obsidian, perfectly adamantine, perfectly untouchable. "Up we go, up we go," she whistled to herself, and as she did, she noticed how the light caught the obsidian bricks at just such an angle that each brick seemed to have a face carved upon it. A wall of souls.
~ Unknown
There are as many paths to Truth as there are souls of men.
~ Idries Shah
Hay tantos caminos hacia la verdad como almas humanas.
~ Idries Shah
Your brain is run by information generated by nations, religions, ethnic groups, and other groups whose goals are perhaps not the same as yours. How long are you going to let this go on? You haven't signed a legally binding lease with any of these people or groups. You can recover your brain as soon as you decide to. Our brains are to be used by us, and only us, to facilitate the growth of our souls.
~ Ilchi Lee
Old Men's Souls Within their ancient, decrepit bodies the souls of old men wallow. Poor things, so full of sorrow: how bored with the wretched life they bear, yet how they cherish it and how they fear its loss, these contrary and befuddled souls, tragicomically huddled inside their ancient, desiccated hides.
~ Constantinos P. Cavafis
Can a secular artist be used as a vessel to bring souls to Christ? Of course... this is God we are talking about!
~ Monica Johnson
God is using people to accomplish His work, of saving souls, but we have to remember that it is not us doing the work. It's God using our vessel.
~ Monica Johnson
However, Westcliff had learned that the mysteries of attraction could not always be explained by logic. Sometimes the fractures in two separate souls became the hinges that held them together.
~ Lisa Kleypas
los misterios de la atracción no siempre podían explicarse mediante la lógica. A veces, las fisuras de dos almas separadas pueden ser lo que las une.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Mysteries of attraction could not always be explained through logic. Sometimes the fractures in two separate souls became the very hinges that held them together.
~ Lisa Kleypas
But then two lost souls searching for an escape should connect, I reason.
~ Lisa Renee Jones
Your children are the greatest gift God will give to you and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your hands. When you are old, nothing else you've done will have mattered…
~ Unknown
For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipators.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith
How fortunate for Us that We thirst for glorious souls rather than faultless ones, or We should be parched indeed, and most lonely in Our perfect righteousness.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.
~ Lord Byron
That prose is a verse, and verse is a prose; convincing all, by demonstrating plain – poetic souls delight in prose insane
~ Lord Byron
The starry fable of the milky way Has not thy story's purity; it is A constellation of a sweeter ray, And sacred Nature triumphs more in this Reverse of her decree, that in the abyss Where sparkle distant worlds: -- Oh, holiest nurse! No drop of that clear stream its way shall miss To thy sire's heart, replenishing its source With life, as our freed souls rejoin the universe.
~ Lord Byron
The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.
~ Unknown