Quotes About Soul

Thought is a garment and the soul's a bride That cannot in that trash and tinsel hide: Hatred of God may bring the soul to God.

The sun meets not the springing bud that stretches towards him with half the certainty that God, the source of all good, communicates himself to the soul that longs to partake of him.

God does not always punish a nation by sending it adversity. More often He gives the oppressors their hearts' desire, and sends leanness withal into their soul.

All illusion comes and goes, but the soul remains unchanged. What is meant by God-realization is to actually experience this important thing that the soul is eternal.

I have a capacity in my soul for taking in God entirely. I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God.

Prayer feeds the soul - as blood is to the body, prayer is to the soul - and it brings you closer to God.

If there were no way into God, I would not have lain in the grave of this body so long.

One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.

The simultaneous existence of opposite virtues in the soul like pincers to catch hold of God.

I believe all God's creatures have a soul... except bears, bears are Godless killing machines!

Lightness, jesting, and joking, can only be indulged at the expense of barrenness of soul, and the loss of the favor of God.

Oh! how seldom the soul is silent, in order that God may speak.

I almost do not exist now and I know it; God knows what lives in me in place of me.

Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.

The human soul is God's treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.

When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly - so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power, and beauty, was the conception.

I believe the causes that create them [serial killers] are theological in nature, rather than societal. I believe they make a conscious choice to erase God's thumbprint from their souls.

A soul, therefore, when deprived of the Word of God, is given up unarmed to the devil for destruction

We need to attend diligently to the state of our soul, and to deal fervently and effectively with God about it.

A puritan is such a one as loves God with all his soul, but hates his neighbor with all his heart.

I don't know where I would be without music. Even if I wasn't a musician, I think music is God. In a lot of ways, it's my saving grave. It's been my religion since I was a little kid.

The soul's order is re-established in God through the law.

I feel a strong relationship with God and I feel my ties are with him. That's how I honestly feel.

It will be as well, I think, to explain these locutions of God, and to describe what the soul feels when it receives them.