Soul Quotes - Page 172

Your core values are the deeply held beliefs that authentically describe your soul.

Encouragement is oxygen for the soul

The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and model: even if the model is a mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles.

He who thinks to save anything by his religion, besides his soul, will be a loser in the end.

Memory is not about what went on in the past, it is about what is going on inside us right this moment. … It is made up of the stuff of life in the process of becoming the grist of the soul.

Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away.

Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment; for lust easily creeps in at those emptinesses where the soul is unemployed and the body is at ease; for no easy, healthful, idle person was ever chaste if he could be tempted; but of all employments, bodily labor is the most useful, and of the greatest benefit for driving away the Devil.

The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.

Doubt springs from the mind; faith is the daughter of the soul.

Theological anthropology is a lot simpler when humans are the only ones with souls.

The purely Great Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere, Thou nameless, now a power and mixed with fate.

The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude.

The poet's business is not to save the soul of man but to make it worth saving.

Living your life constructs your soul, not a few seconds of daily prayer.

Giving birth is priestess work; it requires a woman to pass through a painful and dangerous initiation in which she journeys to the threshold between worlds and risks her own life to help another soul cross over.

And though it is most certain, that two lutes being both strung and turned to an equal pitch, and then one played upon, the other will warble a faint audible harmony in answer to the same tune: yet many will not believe there is any such thing as sympathy of souls, and I am well pleased that every reader do enjoy his own opinion.

Affliction is a divine diet which though it be not pleasing to mankind, yet almighty God hath often imposed it as a good, thought bitter, physic, to those children whose souls are dearest to him.

Your divine mate already exists. When you get to the place in yourself that is peaceful divine love, your true mate will be revealed.

There is no death. How can there be death if everything is part of the Godhead? The soul never dies and the body is never really alive.

The human soul is not framed for continued proximity, and the result of this enforced neighbourhood is often an appalling loneliness for which the rules of the game forbid assuagement.

Mathematics is good for the soul, getting things right enlivens a sense of truth, efforts to understand automatically purify desires.

No one will deny that the soul of Pythagoras was sent to mankind from Apollo's domain, having either been one of his attendants, or more intimate associates, which may be inferred both from his birth, and his versatile wisdom.

The soul maintains it's deathly sleep and the heart bleeds from a thousand wounds

The heart and soul of a Navy SEAL is somebody who's committed to their country and committed to their teammates.

A man can't hit a woman and stay a man. He becomes a loathsome thing, even to himself. But the woman who stays with such a man panders to his darkness. They both risk their souls.