Quotes About Soul

Prayer is the present remedy for the souls of them that are sick.

The more the soul is conformed to Christ, the more confident it will be of its interest in Christ.

There is no soul under heaven that commonly lies under the commanding power of the Word, but that soul that has an interest in the Word of Promise.

The first great work that men are to attend in this world is the eternal safety and security of their souls; the next great work is to know, to be assured, that it shall go well with their souls forever.

The nearer any soul draws to God, the more humble will that soul lie before God...the most holy men have always been the most humble men...If the work be good, though never so low, humility will put a hand to it; so will not pride.

Repentance is the vomit of the soul.

Greater sins do sooner startle the soul, and awaken and rouse up the soul to repentance, than lesser sins do. Little sins often slide into the soul, and breed, and work secretly and undiscernably in the soul, till they come to be so strong, as to trample upon the soul, and to cut the throat of the soul.

We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers.

There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures.

His argument runs like this: there is no goodness without free will. Without the ability to freely choose-or reject-the good, an individual possesses no control over his own soul, and without that control, there is not possibility of attaining grace. In the language of Christianity, a beliver cannot be saved unless the choice to follow Christ is freely made, unless the option not to follow him genuinely exists. Compelled belief is no belief at all.

Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore,Never tired pilgrim's limbs affected slumber more,Than my weary sprite now longs to fly out of my troubled breast!O come quickly, sweetest Lord, and take my soul to rest.

Those curious locks so aptly twin'd, Whose every hair a soul doth bind.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting hostile empires, — Necessity and Free Will.

All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.

Does it ever give thee pause that men used to have a soul? Not by hearsay alone, or as a figure of speech, but as a thruth that they knew and acted upon. Verily it was another world then, but yet it is a pity we have lost the tidings of our souls. We shall have to go in search of them again or worse in all ways shall befall us.

OH, Heaven,it is mysterious,it is awful to consider that we not only carry a future Ghost within us. but are,in very deed, GHOSTS !

Does it ever give thee pause, that men used to have a soul- not by hearsay along, or as a figure of speech; but as a truth that they knew, and acted upon! Verily it was another world then... but yet it is a pity we have lost the tidings of our souls... we shall have to go in search of them again, or worse in all ways shall befall us.

In Büchern liegt die Seele aller gewesenen Zeit.«

A Good Book is the purest essence of a Human Soul ''.