Quotes
Quotes about Soul
A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
If the truth were known, many sermons are prepared and preached with more regard for the sermon than the souls of the hearers.
If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.
All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
We are convinced that we are true soul mates. When I was fifteen and praying for my future wife, she was fourteen and praying for her future husband.
And now Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 10:12].
What then? What rests? Try what repentance can. What can it not? Yet what can it when one cannot repent? O wretched state? O bosom black as death! O limed soul, that struggling to be free Art more engaged!
Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.
O Rome! my country! city of the soul!
Every subject's duty is the king's, but every subject's soul is his own.
But Thy good word informs my soul How I may climb to heaven.
We search the world for truth; we cull The good, the pure, the beautiful, From all old flower fields of the soul; And, weary seeker of the best, We come back laden from out quest, To find that all the sages said Is in the Book our mothers read.
But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end Like quills upon the fretful porpentine.
Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse thy soul; mark the decay And growth of it; if, with thy watch, that too Be down then winde up both; since we shall be Most surely judg'd, make thy accounts agree.
O Hamlet, speak no more. Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul, And there I see such black and grained spots As will not leave their tinct.
We wait all these years to find someone who understands us, I thought, someone who accepts us as we are, someone with a wizard's power to melt stone to sunlight, who can bring us happiness in spite of trials, who can face our dragons in the night, who can transform us into the soul we choose to be. Just yesterday I found that magical Someone is the face we see in the mirror: It's us and our homemade masks. -Richard Bach.
I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.
If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.
