Quotes About Soul

Now, men think, with regard to their conduct, that, if they were to lift themselves up gigantically and commit some crashing sin, they should never be able to hold up their heads; but they will harbor in their souls little sins, which are piercing and eating them away to inevitable ruin.

The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God's thought and hand, is our own soul!

A man's soul ought to be as the heavens were on the night when the shepherds looked up, and saw them full of angels as well as stars.

You have seen a ship out on the bay, swinging with the tide, and seeming as if it would follow it; and yet it cannot, for down beneath the water it is anchored. So many a soul sways toward heaven, but cannot ascend thither, because it is anchored to some secret sin.

Repentance is the turning of the soul from the way of midnight to the point of the coming sun.

As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality; and though it can give nothing to the body to redeem it from years, it can give to the soul that freshness of youth in old age which is even more beautiful than youth in the young.

The soul is often hungrier than the body, and no shops can sell it food.

God does not refuse to make himself known to man. He only will not do it by the symbolism of matter. He comes to us at once by the most natural course. We are in a transient state; our bodies are accidental, and God comes to us by that which is higher and truer--the intuitions of the soul.

That man is a Christian whose soul has learned to love; and he who has not learned to love, does not know the alphabet of Christianity.

Liberty is the soul's right to breathe, and when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight.

Religion is the whole soul marching heavenward to the music of joy and love, with well-ranked faculties, every one of them beating time and keeping tune.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures.

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We're surrounded by a world that talks, but we don't listen. We're part of a community engaged in a vast conversation, but we deny our role in it. We haven't the courage to acknowledge our deep need for what we can't explain. The soul feeds on what takes us to the edge, but we don't go there willingly. Our longing is an echo of the Earth's.

The threat to natural wilderness forces us into the inner wilderness of the human psyche where wonder, grief, and longing are storming within us as well. Every experience in the natural world invites us to a corresponding work of the soul.

her heart had been lost for five years looking for a rhythm that only he could play.

The truth was that if the man came with a harsh past and an emptiness in his soul, she was metal to his magnet.

music had come.

Shakespeare wrote, Hear my soul speak. Of the very instant that I saw you, Did my heart fly at your service. "I

Home, to many of the people I interviewed, is a good, comfortable feeling about the place where they live, and a sense that their place is going to be theirs for a while....Home is any place, any experience that feeds his soul "in some positive way".

I don't knock films or television shows, but they nail you down to a kind of externality. Nothing is going to be communicated which demands a softer approach--or let's say a more insidious approach--into the soul.

There is in you, the least of you, what only God could give out of his inmost and highest being, a spiritual existence.

Polidori had quite a lot to say about the dangers of breaking the pentagram when summoning a spirit. Having your soul dragged out and sent screaming down to hell was only the start of it. At each cardinal point of the pentagram I put one of my calculators.

They're into something that is too big to be expressed through their clothes.