Quotes About Soul

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.

Gratitude is food for a weary soul

That deep longing you keep dismissing as impractical may be the very thing your soul is calling you to do.

We are here for the evolution of our soul. This evolution happens through the mangagement of both the ups and downs of physical life. Evolution is halted by pretending to be happy all the time.

How odd it is, that the dead weigh more than the living. You would think it would be the opposite, but it isn't. I think it is because souls give bodies lightness and air. When the soul leaves, the body has nothing left and is desperate to return to the earth.

His mild efforts at curiosity had been rebuffed--not with coldness but with her single-minded focus on her cases. And yet he could sense something deeply vulnerable about her. It was that part of her that spoke to his soul. He wasn't a ledge talker for nothing.

The mind remembers what the soul can bear.

The key to taking confident action is trusting the nudge in your soul

You can't hold love in your hand. You can only feel it in your heart. It

The true essence of You, the pure energy of You, has always been and always will be. You can never not be.

Eso sólo podría decirlo el futuro; por el momento, lejos de arredrarme sentí un gran coraje, y tuve la certeza de que me había de romper el alma antes que ceder a las fatigas o esquivar algún peligro del arreo.

Es fácil reconocer el alma de una mujer en su manera de marcar un libro (atenta, minuciosa, personal, provocadora), porque si uno ama a una persona, hasta las discretas señales que deja en un libro se parecen a ella.

a man can free his soul only by exhausting his body.

Bad dreams are things precious the soul fears it may lose.

I pick the prettiest part of the sky and I melt into the wing and then into the air, till I'm just soul on a sunbeam.

As the fire doth mount upwards, and the needle that is touched with the loadstone still turneth to the north, so the converted soul is inclined to God. Nothing else can satisfy him, nor can he find any content and rest but in his love. In a word, all that are converted do esteem and love God better than all the world; and the heavenly felicity is dearer to them than their fleshly prosperity.

The most dangerous mistake that our souls are capable of, is, to take the creature for God, and earth for heaven (374).

Thou has heard the words of Christ. . . . Dost thou weep, when I have thee, Poor soul, what aileth thee? Dost thou weep, when I have wept so much? Be of good cheer ; thy wounds are saving, and not deadly. It is I that have made them, who mean thee no hurt : though I let out thy blood, I will not let out thy life (628).

Words and actions are transient things, and being once past, are nothing; but the effect of them on an immortal soul may be endless.

The true knowing, living Christian complains more frequently and more bitterly of the wants and woes within him, than without him(55).

I know it is not mere noise that will convert a soul: a bawling fervency, which the hearers may discern to be but histrionical and affected, and not to come from a serious heart, doth harden the auditors worst of all.

If anything keep thy soul out of heaven, which God forbid, there is nothing in the world liker to do it, than thy false hopes of being saved, while thou art yet out of the way to salvation(234). (III.III)

Woe to the soul which God rejoiceth to punish! . . . . Is it not a terrible thing to a wretched soul, when it shal lie roaring perpetually in the flames of hell, and the God of mercy himself shall laugh at them; when they shall cry out for mercy, yea, for one drop of water, and God shall mock them instead of relieving them; when non in heaven or earth can help them but God, and hell shall rejoice over them in their calamity(244)?

T]here is no greater strengthener of sin, and destroyer of the soul, than Scripture misapplied (317).