Quotes About Soul

when the soul is transported, the only virtue lies in loving what you see (is that not true?), the supreme happiness in having what you have;

What is love? There is nothing in the world, neither man nor Devil nor any thing, that I hold as suspect as love, for it penetrates the soul more than any other thing. Nothing exists that so fills and binds the heart as love does.

Dizem que a alma é somente aquilo que se faz, mas, se eu odeio alguém e cultivo esse rancor, ...isso significa que existe um dentro!

Ce e dragostea? Nu exist? nimic pe lume, nici om, nici diavol ÅŸi nici alt lucru pe care eu s? nu-l socotesc atât de suspect ca dragostea, întrucât aceasta p?trunde în suflet mi mult decât orice altceva. Nu exist? nimic care s? acapareze ÅŸi s? lege sufletul ca dragostea. Întrucât, dac? nu ai acele arme care s-o st?pâneasc?, sufletul cade din pricina dragostei într-o ruin? nem?rginit?.

A wonderful privilege it was to be thus admitted into the soul of a man of genius, to be allowed to share the ecstasies and the agonies of his inmost life.

Millions of ideas, constantly changing and shifting, drifting into consciousness and out again, and all supposedly at random, with no "soul" to direct them! No purpose, no goal, though every materialist was a living determination to destroy the idea of a soul, and of a God who had anything to do with a purely accidental universe! What a strange accident, that men should labor so purposefully to destroy the idea of purpose!

That is what art is, a process of creation, which makes itself a part of life, and builds new life in its own image, immortal and eternally operating within the soul of man. One accent of the Holy Ghost the heedless world hath never lost!

she was the kindest of souls; if she had ever done harm to any human being it was because the social system was too complicated for her to understand the consequences of her actions.

No, there had to be a new set of ideas to account for this creature, which, during a period of nine months, had been repeating the history of life on this planet over a period of many millions of years. It had consciousness, and had—or was—what people called a "soul." It would

came, Known to the world by Ráma's name: With soul subdued, a chief of might, In Scripture versed, in glory bright

Hope is the deep orientation of the human soul that can be held at the darkest times.

The kind of hope that I often think about…I understand above all as a state of mind, not a state of the world. Either we have hope within us, or we don't. It is a dimension of the soul It's not essentially dependent upon some particular observation of the world or estimate of the situation. Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

At the pace many of us live, we desperately need to hear Jesus call us to come away and rest, to withdraw from the fever and pitch of our lives and to refresh and restore ourselves in the Spirit of Christ. We need a quiet environment to let our souls rest in God. As we learn to practice this discipline, we become better at speaking words of comfort and direction to the people around us. We discover that silence is not empty when God fills it.

But if we can radiate true joy from a deep place in our souls, despite the external realities, we will have much to say to a stressed-out, cynical culture that knows very little of true joy.

A great book that I recommend is called The Marriage of Spirit.14

If bones could freeze, then the brain could also be dulled and the soul could freeze over. And the soul shuddered and froze- perhaps to remain frozen forever.

He had never killed a child; he had never arrested anyone. But he had broken the fragile dyke that protected the purity of his soul from the seething darkness around him. The blood of the camps and the ghettos had gushed over him and carried him away... There was no longer any divide between him and the darkness; he himself was part of the darkness.

Perfect worlds do not exist. There are only the funny, strange, weeping, singing, truncated, and imperfect universes created by the gods of paintbrush and musical instruments, the gods who infuse their creations with their own blood, their own soul. When he looks at these worlds, the true Lord of Hosts, the creator of the universe, probably cannot help but smile mockingly

Byerozkin knew very well that the man with no quiet at the bottom of his soul was unable to endure for long, however courageous he might be in combat. He thought of fear or cowardice, on the other hand, as something temporary, something that could be cured as easily as a cold.

the world of the human soul suddenly seemed so vast as to make even the raging war seen insignificant.

For a particular scene to enter into a person and become a part of their soul, it is evidently not enough that the scene be beautiful. The person also has to have something clear and beautiful present inside them.

Lynne Twist's insightful book titled The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship With Money and Life

The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.

To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.