Soul Quotes - Page 190

Brevity may be the soul of wit, but not when someone's saying "I love you.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

To conform is to lose your soul

From the fame opinion of a soul distinct from the body came the practice of praying, first for the dead, and then to them with a long train of other absurd opinions, and superstitious practices.

...you can hate a place with all your heart and soul and still be homesick for it.

The soul that is the abode of chastity acquires an energy which enables her to surmount with ease the obstacles that lie along the path of duty.

The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms.

A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.

The world is full of people who have stopped listening to themselves or have listened only to their neighbors to learn what they ought to do, how they ought to behave, and what the values are they should be living for.

I will watch over My flock by night (Isaiah 27:3). Behold, I have appointed My ministers as your watchmen, as overseers who watch for your souls (Hebrews 13:17; Acts 20:28)

The capitalist process shapes things and souls for socialism.

Pilots are a rare kind of human. They leave the ordinary surface of the word, to purify their soul in the sky, and they come down to earth, only after receiving the communion of the infinite.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

My kids, they're my energy, my soul, and my nicest friend.

If our souls be immortal, this makes amends for the frailties of life and the sufferings of this state.

My work is known by too few people for me to be remembered as a writer - that is, beyond those dedicated souls (bless them) who have followed the oeuvre through its various stages. To be realistic, when they and the last of my friends have died, I doubt I shall be remembered at all.

That mainstream English is essential to our self-preservation is indisputable . . . but it is not necessary to abandon Spoken Soul to master Standard English, any more than it is necessary to abandon English to learn French or to deprecate jazz to appreciate classical music.

Mortification is the soul's vigorous opposition to self, wherein sincerity is most evident.

The stronghold of the contemplation of Christ's glory affords the soul rest, for it will be made evident that our troubles grow on the root of an over-valuation of temporal things. The mind is its own greatest troubler.

During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me. I had always owned them to be the Word of GOD . . . the careful reading of the Acts afforded me a practical picture of the early church; which made me feel deeply the contrast with its actual present state; though still, as ever beloved by GOD.

Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out.

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

Come over here so I can examine your face with my hands and see deeper into your soul than a sighted person ever could.

I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls.

Lord, here is my body; I am very grateful for it; I neglected nothing that belonged to its contents and welfare; but as for my soul, that is lost and cast away forever. I took little.care and thought about it.