Soul Quotes - Page 184

One could say the higher the spirit goes, the more deeply the soul sinks down into the waters of melancholy and tragedy. Drowning in that water is as sweet as rising.

A man knows no more in religion than he loves and embraceth with the affections of his soul.

Unbelief starves the soul; faith finds food in famine.

Sinners, hear and consider, if you wilfully condemn your souls to bestiality, God will condemn them to perpetual misery.

All the pictures in magazines and all of that is fun but in the end it's all about your soul and who you are and have you connected with the people.

Genuine asceticism for finding one's own soul and for the good of humanity is worthy of reverence.

It's very different because the Indians live as if they are their souls and Americans live as if they are their egos.

We've gotten lost in our Ego and have forgotten that our Soul's only motive is to merge with the Beloved.

The witness is always in the here and now and it lives in each instant of living. To be in the witness is to listen with a still heart, with a waiting, open soul, without clinging, without opinions.

A beautiful soul always dwells in a beautiful world.

Circles, like the soul, are neverending and turn round and round without a stop.

The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew… it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal.

Every individual nature has its own beauty. One is struck in every company, at every fireside, with the riches of nature, when he hears so many new tones, all musical, sees in each person original manners, which have a proper and peculiar charm, and reads new expressions of face. He perceives that nature has laid for each the foundations of a divine building, if the soul will build thereon.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant.

The powers of the Soul are commensurate with its needs.

Sometime we will have to stop overevaluating the word. We shall learn to realize that it is only one of the many bridges that connect the island of our soul with the great continent of common life. . . the broadest, perhaps, but in no way the most refined.

for we women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself.

Let your soul lead the way, cause I'm that enemy that you can't see.

Speech is the mirror of the soul.

Painting transports me into another dimension which, quite literally, refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can't reach.

In France, for instance, one magazine writer was convinced that On The Road had been a huge influence on Lost Souls and was crushed to learn that I hadn't read the one until after I'd written the other.

The more pure and chaste is a soul, the more it hungers for this Bread [Jesus in the Eucharist], from which it derives strength to resist all temptations to sins of impurity, and by which it is more intimately united with the Divine Spouse; 'He who eats My Flesh and drinks My Blood, abides in Me and I in him'

Only for today, I will devote ten minutes of my time to some good reading, remembering that just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul

The man who masters his own soul will forever be called conqueror of conquerors.