Quotes About Soul

Faith and works are necessary to our spiritual life as Christians, as soul and body are to our natural life as men; for faith is the soul of religion, and works the body.

By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit.

Music is religion for me. There'll be music in the hereafter, too.

If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circustance.

A man knows no more in religion than he loves and embraceth with the affections of his soul.

The Puritan did not stop to think; he recognized God in his soul, and acted.

God is not dumb, that he should speak no more; If thou hast wanderings in the wilderness And find'st not Sinai, 'tis thy soul is poor.

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

Although religion was around me my whole life I never felt it was forced upon me. It is my centring, my grounding, the soul of me. I feel I'm nothing without it.

The home of Religion is the heart.

First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.

We're starting our own religion at last. The Order of Frisbeetarians. We believe that when you die, your soul ascends to a rooftop and you can never get it back.

Whether we call it religion or faith, we all battle for a balanced integrated soul.

My religion is, to live through Love.

I will take no more physick, not even my opiates; for I have prayed that I may render up my soul to God unclouded.

You can have Jesus in your spirit and have an outrageous mess in your soul, and if you don't know what that's called, it's called religion.

I believe the world of the spirit is in general greatly neglected and not at all served by the practice of faith as we know it, because religion isn't individual enough.

For me, the soul is connected to a higher being. It's not about religion; it's about connecting to your true self - your truth, the truth inside of you, the one you were born with.

Faith gives new light to the soul, but it does not put our eyes out; and what God hathgivenusinournature could never be intended as a snare to Religion, or engage us to believe a lie.

It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honor, his religion, his soul and lay the foundation for the empire's fall or its regeneration.

Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.

It is hypocrisy for man to make any other use of his religion, or the credit of it, than to sanctify and save his soul.

If the Koran is the soul of Islam, then perhaps the institution of the Muslim family might be described as its body.

Each religion by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.