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Quotes About Soul

May your eye go to the Sun, To the wind your soul….You are all the colors in one, at full brightness.
~ Jennifer Niven
You should be concerned about the state of your soul, not the state of your bank account.
~ Jennifer Weiner
The call to dreams is a call to soul.
~ Jenny Alexander
There was a universe inside every human being every bit as big as the universe outside them.
~ Jenny Colgan
There was a universe inside every human being, just as big as the universe outside them.
~ Jenny Colgan
Find something true to your spirit and your soul and do it every day.
~ Jenny Colgan
And his advice, you know. Find something true to your spirit and your soul and do it every day.
~ Jenny Colgan
An Arabic proverb: One insect is enough to fell a country. A Japanese proverb: Even an insect one-tenth of an inch long has five-tenths of a soul.
~ Jenny Offill
What Keats said: No such thing as the world becoming an easy place to save your soul in.
~ Jenny Offill
A soul was like a worm in an apple, my mother told me. Sometimes you went your whole life without knowing you had one and then suddenly it appeared. In Africa, the soul has the same shape as the body but cannot be seen. At night, it travels through the world while a person dreams. But it returns to the body the moment a sleeping person is touched.
~ Jenny Offill
Birds are colder than animals that live on the earth, because they are not conceived in such intense and heated desire. Just as birds are lifted up into the air by their feathers and can remain wherever they wish, the soul in the body is elevated by thought and spreads its wings everywhere.
~ Jenny Offill
Of course it is difficult. You are creating a creature with a soul, my friend says.
~ Jenny Offill
What can it be, do you think? A hidden nerve that's given way? Or something we have failed in or sinned against in ourselves, perhaps—who knows? A soul is such a fragile thing, and no one knows how far the soul extends in a human being. We ought to be good to ourselves—
~ Jens Peter Jacobsen
I find a sufficiency of satisfaction in my own heart, through the grace of Christ that is in me. Though I have not outward comforts and worldly conveniences to supply my necessities, yet I have a sufficient portion between Christ and my soul abundantly to satisfy me in every condition.
~ Jeremiah Burroughs
My brethren, the reason why you have not got contentment in the things of the world is not because you have not got enough of them-that is not the reason-but the reason is, because they are not things proportionable to that immortal soul of yours that is capable of God himself.
~ Jeremiah Burroughs
There is a Heaven within the souls of the saints-that is a certain truth; no soul shall ever come to Heaven, but the soul which has Heaven come to it first. When you die, you hope you will go to Heaven; but if you will go to Heaven when you die, Heaven will come to you before you die. Now this is a great mystery, to have the Kingdom of Heaven in the soul; no man can know this but that soul which has it.
~ Jeremiah Burroughs
contentment is an inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit-the whole soul, judgment, thoughts, will, affections and all are satisfied and quiet.
~ Jeremiah Burroughs
And the truth is, I know nothing more effective for quieting a Christian soul and getting contentment than this, setting your heart to work in the duties of the immediate circumstances that you are now in, and taking heed of your thoughts about other conditions as a mere temptation.
~ Jeremiah Burroughs
Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.
~ Jeremy Taylor
It scared me to need anyone so much. if our souls became inextricably tangled, would mine still be mine? Did I care?
~ Jeri Smith-Ready
I do not ask for grace of style, I look for purity of soul: for with Christians it is the greatest of solecisms and of vices of style to introduce anything base either in word or action.
~ Jerome
Certainly the primary imperative of a physician is to be skilled in medical science, but if he or she does not probe a patient's soul, then the doctor's care is given without caring, and part of the sacred mission of healing is missing.
~ Jerome E. Groopman
Indwelling sin remains in us even though it has been dethroned. And though it has been overthrown and weakened, its nature has not changed. Sin is still hostile to God and cannot submit to His law (Romans 8:7). Thus we have an implacable enemy of righteousness right in our own hearts. What diligence and watchfulness is required of us when this enemy in our souls is ready to oppose every effort to do good!
~ Jerry Bridges
To the degree that we live with an abiding sense of His love for us in Christ, to that degree will we love God with all our heart and soul and mind.
~ Jerry Bridges