Quotes About Soul

There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute; for feeling except in the infinite; for the soul except in the divine.

Joy is the vital air of the soul.

Only one thing is necessary: to possess God -- All the senses, all the forces of the soul and of the spirit, all the exterior resources are so many open outlets to the Divinity; so many ways of tasting and of adoring God.

The soul may be immortal because she is fitted to rise towards that which is neither born nor dies, towards that which exists substantially, necessarily, invariably, that is to say towards God.

Each bud flowers but once and each flower has but its minute of perfect beauty; so, in the garden of the soul each feeling has, as it were, its flowering instant, its one and only moment of expansive grace and radiant kingship.

So many poets die ere they are known, I pray you, hear me kindly for their sake. Not of the harp, but of the soul alone, Is the deep music all true minstrels make: Hear my soul's music, and I will beguile, With string and song, your festival awhile.

And once I knew a meditative rose that never raised its head from bowing down, yet drew its inspiration from the stars. It bloomed and faded here beside the road, and, being a poet, wrote on empty air with fragrance all the beauty of its soul.

O May! your cheeks are sunset skies, Which the lips of the verge shall press, And the amber clouds caress-- Drifting along in the light which lies Over your soul-lit, jasmine eyes, In all its golden tenderness!

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.

They say dreams are the windows of the soul--take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts.

But the main direction of Christ's teaching is to urge that the soul's rest comes not from self-occupation, but from faith in God; that what we can do for ourselves is as nothing compared with what God can do for us.

Where there is no passion there can be no poetry.

To be acquainted with what is best and oldest in yourself, is to know yourself as you were, before the world was made, before you emerged into time.

Our western philosophy has been the theater of what we may call the "battle for the Soul of the world." … Is it a matter of a battle that has finally been lost, the world having lost its soul, a defeat whose consequences weigh upon our modern visions of the world without compensation? If there has been a defeat, a defeat is still not a refutation.

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his souls estate.

Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other.

Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green.

With all your science - can you tell how it is, and whence it is, that light comes into the soul?

Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other.

Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.

To get to heaven we must take it with us.

A photograph prints from the negative only while exposed to the sun. While the artist is looking to see how it is getting on he simply stops the getting on. Whatever of wise supervision the soul may need, it is certain it can never be over-exposed, or that, being exposed, anything else in the world can improve the result or quicken it.

It is a distinct fact by itself, which we can hold and examine separately, that on purely natural principles the soul that is left to itself unwatched, uncultivated, unredeemed, must fall away into death by its own nature.

Love is greater than faith, because the end is greater than the means. What is the use of having faith? It is to connect the soul with God. And what is the object of connecting man with God? That he may become like God. But God is Love. Hence Faith, the means, is in order to Love, the end. Love, therefore, obviously is greater than faith. "If I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.