Quotes About Souls

Reader, if you'd ever want infinity, stay with your eyes open in a fall of snow, of dandelion down, of dream, of sun – there are coming towards you its souls.

The heart – a living clock that houses loved souls in nameless cities.

Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty.

The foundation of friendship demands the greatest likeness of human souls and hearts.

There is a side of friendship that develops better and stronger by correspondence than contact.... The absence of the flesh in writing perhaps brings souls nearer.

So delicate are our souls but it is us and inside us that with which we pull our bodies. No direction is definite when the compass has no source and yet we must go on.

If I err in my belief that the souls of men are immortal, I err gladly, and do not wish to lose so delightful an error

But the depth of the crisis is also suggested by the multitude of reforming voices, societies, and movements that arose within the Catholic Church during the same period that Protestants began to move away from the church. Such movements are the concern of our next chapter, but it is important to note them now in order to indicate the magnitude of crisis brought about by the failure of Catholic leadership to expend as much energy in the care of souls as in the pursuit of power.

Thus the men whom nature's works can charm, with God himself hold converse; grow familiar, day by day, with his conceptions; act upon his plan; and form to his, the relish of their souls.

When our eyes fall from God to humanity, social ills replace sin, horizontal problems replace the fundamental vertical problem between us and God, winning elections eclipses winning souls.

It helps us to create and re-create ourselves, often against harsh odds. So I will be talking here about the crafting of souls.

Unresolved anger is singled out as a sin that gives the devil an opportunity to derail and defeat us. Demons seize upon it to nurture bitterness and resentment, which wreak havoc in our souls.

Some are waiting for the day when their exhausted bodies will give out and their wispy souls will detach and allegedly drift off to heaven.

How do men think of such wickedness?" Anna asked as wax dripped down the candle and pooled about the holder. "Don't they fear for their souls?" Pino thought about Rauff and the Black Shirts wearing the hoods. "I don't think men like that care about their souls," Pino said, finishing the veal. "It's like they've already gone to evil, and going a little deeper won't matter.

The future will be resplendent, and an untold number of souls will be saved, but on one condition: that your sons be devoted to the Blessed Virgin.

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

Love does not come to those who seek it, but to those who give love. It is a binding force between souls who have nothing to give but themselves to one another.

If I am perturbed by the reproach and misunderstanding that may follow action taken for the good of souls for whom I must give account; if I cannot commit the matter and go on in peace and in silence, remembering Gethsemane and the cross, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.

it is my trauma patients who seem the oldest souls in the world, though some of them are quite young people. They are proud human spirits who seem ancient and ageless at the same time. Over the years, I have seen brighter passions in their eyes than in the eyes of any priest or guru. I have heard more wisdom from their mouths than I have read in any book.

The proverb has it that Hunger is the best cook. The Law makes afflicted consciences hungry for Christ. Christ tastes good to them. Hungry hearts appreciate Christ. Thirsty souls are what Christ wants. He invites them: "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." Christ's benefits are so precious that He will dispense them only to those who need them and really desire them.

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

The image of the tormented man is taken and reproduced in the dirtiest political ways by the institutions of the church, and through this image they squeeze money and a part of the souls of the people in order to convert them to a faith that no longer is part of the ultimate form of mans love, to faith of the obedience to groupings, official, governmental or any other occult institutions and hierarchies.

All this happens because man is love and is there is a great love between two souls, it never dies but transforms itself in holiness, the ultimate stage of Love we can identify.