Quotes About Soul

The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.

The man with the greatest soul will always face the greatest war with the low minded person.

A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace.

War don't ennoble men, it turns 'em into dogs. It poisons the soul.

War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon's proclamations.

God's job ain't to make our lives easier, it's to make us better souls by the lessons He gives us.

Child, the good Lord got plans for all of us that we don't know-and he always got His reasons. He want us to learn and rejoice in the good that come from His design. God's plan ain't a free pass. Uh-uh. He give us moments to make choices, and we make them. We accountable for those choices. God's job ain't to make our lives easier, it's to make us better souls by the lessons he give us. I tell you now, I wouldn't change one choice I made since I met you. No matter what.

She loved him. There it was. The thing she'd vowed would never happen. She loved Theo Harp. Not just his body or his face. Not just for sex or companionship. Definitely not for his money. She loved him for who he was. For his beautiful, tortured, kind soul.

Seguro que hiciste un pacto con el diablo: le diste el alma a cambio de saber cocinar.-Y de poder ver a través de la ropa de las mujeres -añadió Theo a la vez que dejaba caer una pinza vacía en el bol para los restos del caparazón.

His insights have come to him through a crack in the veneer of civilization, which was also a crack in his own soul. He had the courage to look in this direction.

This is what it meant to be human-to die. And I,who had been made of death, still had no part in humanity.

In point of fact I was a perfectly devoted and dutiful little Catholic—until the day I learned that animals have no souls.

Emotions are part of our soul's anatomy. Having them available is a gift; clinging to them is not.

Does the soul have a passport? Or do you simply pick the branch of the family tree that you prefer, with its preferred location, and hang your history on it?

She had drunk from the cup of self-deceit which can poison your soul, so you never again see the truth.

If eyes were the windows to the soul, then the wrinkles surrounding them must be the roadmap of all the soul had endured. Bobby

if I walk around with anger in my heart, it just darkens my own soul. Forgiveness is hard, but really, it costs me nothing because it doesn't come from me.

It's as if the body is a candle and the soul is its flame. When the flame is snuffed out, all that is left to prove that there had been a flame is the candle

It's as if the body is a candle and the soul is its flame. When the flame is snuffed out, all that is left to prove that there had been a flame is the candle, and even that we only have for a little while. Even the candle is not ours to keep. And yet how we care for that candle for that stretch of time that it is still ours! How we want to remember the shape and fragrance of the little flame it held.

Music is the language of the soul. Music captures our prayers and hopes and joys—and yes, our sorrows—and gives them voice, just as the paintings and the statues give them dimension.

Buying a car used to be an experience so soul-scorching, so confidence-splattering, so existentially rattling that an entire car company was based on the promise that you wouldn't have to come in contact with it.

Kelso maintained that the acquisition of the book was an expression of her free speech. Reverend Campbell argued that his right to pray for someone's soul was an expression of his free speech. As the lawsuit advanced, Reverend Campbell's right to free speech seemed to gain the moral upper hand

Our minds and souls contain volumes inscribed by our experiences and emotions; each individual's consciousness is a collection of memories we've cataloged and stored inside us, a private library of a life lived. It is something that no one else can entirely share, one that burns down and disappears when we die.

to say his or her library has burned. When I first heard the phrase, I didn't understand it, but over time I came to realize it was perfect. Our minds and souls contain volumes inscribed by our experiences and emotions; each individual's consciousness is a collection of memories we've cataloged and stored inside us, a private library of a life lived. It is something that no one else can entirely share, one that burns down and disappears when we die.