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Quotes About Soul

The secret prayer chamber is a bloody battleground. Here violent and decisive battles are fought out. Here the fate of souls for time and eternity is determined, in quietude and solitude.
~ Ole Hallesby
No repentance, obedience, self-denial, prayers, tears, reformation or ordinances, without the new creation, avail any thing to the salvation of thy soul.
~ John Flavel
God enabled me to so agonize in prayer that I was quite wet with perspiration, though in the shade and the cool wind. My soul was drawn out very much from the world, for multitudes of souls.
~ David Brainerd
Prayer must emanate from the heart, where God resides, and not from the head where doctrines and doubts clash.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
They who have steeped their soul in prayer can every anguish calmly bear.
~ Richard M. Milnes
Almighty Power, by whose most wise command, helpless, forlorn, uncertain, here I stand, take this faint glimmer of thyself away, or break into my soul with perfect day!
~ John Arbuthnot
Prayer is the human response to the perpetual outpouring of love by which God lays siege to every soul.
~ Richard J. Foster
A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.
~ Alexander Cockburn
I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God.
~ Victor Hugo
Prayer should be soundless words coming forth from the center of your heart filled with love.
~ Amit Ray
What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime, in the course of our whole life, than the practice of prayer!
~ Saint Augustine
We shall never find happiness by looking at our prayers, our doings, or our feelings; it is what Jesus is, not what we are, that gives rest to the soul.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
~ Simone Weil
Whole prayer is nothing but love.
~ Saint Augustine
Prayer can solve more problems, alleviate more suffering, prevent more transgression, and bring about greater peace and contentment in the human soul than can be obtained in any other way.
~ Thomas S. Monson
The soul is a muscle, and it needs to be exercised a little every day. Say a morning prayer just to say something.
~ Catherine Hicks
Satyagraha is itself an unmistakable mute prayer of an agonized soul.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
A prayer less soul is a Christ less soul.
~ Charles Spurgeon
If you have never felt your soul poured out before the Lord with a consequent exhaustion, it is doubtful whether you have advanced far in the school of prayer.
~ Walter J Chantry
Prayer gives a channel to the pent-up sorrows of the soul, they flow away, and in their stead streams of sacred delight pour into the heart.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Unless inside, where no one sees, our soul is kneelling, too, a prayer is not so likely to get through.
~ Elaine A. Cannon
Even when she was speaking, her soul was in prayer reposing on an unseen support.
~ George Eliot, Adam Bede
In seasons of distress and grief My soul has often found relief And oft escaped the tempter's snare By thy return sweet hour of prayer.
~ W. W. Walford
One great effect of prayer is that it enables the soul to command the body. By obedience I make my body submissive to my soul but prayer puts my soul in command of my body.
~ Oswald Chambers