Soul Quotes - Page 194

What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another.

Teach the child to respect that which is not respectable and you teach the child the first requirement of slavery: submission to unjust authority. Children are persons. They are small persons whose perfect souls have not yet been ground through the meat grinder of slavery.

I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual Abolition of Slavery.

The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.

What a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life!

And if I drink oblivion of a day, / So shorten I the stature of my soul.

Good souls many will one day be horrified at the things they now believe of God.

One who not merely beholds the outward shows of things, but catches a glimpse of the soul that looks out of them, whose garment and revelation they are-if he be such, I say, he will stand, for more than a moment, speechless with something akin to that which made the morning stars sing together.

Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.

I believe that music surpasses even language in its power to mirror the innermost recesses of the human soul

You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are my divinity, my madness, my selfishness, my transfiguration and purification. You are my rapscallionly fellow vagabond, my tempter and star. I want you.

I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.

If you want to find the answers to the Big Questions about your soul, you'd best begin with the Little Answers about your body.

But that day I was anxious. I was nervous and worried, uneasy and distracted. I paced around and never felt settled. I didn't care for the sensation, yet I realized it was possibly a natural progression of my evolving soul, and therefore I tried my best to embrace it.

He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave.

Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea. And there is only one higher idea on earth, and it is the idea of the immortality of the human soul, for all other "higher" ideas of life by which humans might live derive from that idea alone.

Unless souls are saved, nothing is saved; there can be no world peace without soul peace.

If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

The pure soul is a pure lie.

To become the founder of a new religion one must be psychologically infallible in one's knowledge of a certain average type of souls who have not yet recognized that they belong together.

Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affliction or grief has humanized the soul.

O God, the creature knows not to what end Thou hast made Him; teach him, and write in the depths of his soul that the clay must suffer itself to be shaped at the will of the potter.

Even as the needle that directs the hour, (Touched with the loadstone) by the secret power Of hidden Nature, points upon the pole; Even so the wavering powers of my soul, Touch'd by the virtue of Thy spirit, flee From what is earth, and point alone to Thee.

Sin is a basilisk whose eyes are full of venom. If the eye of thy soul see her first, it reflects her own poison and kills her; if she see thy soul, unseen, or seen too late, with her poison, she kills thee: since therefore thou canst not escape thy sin, let not thy sin escape thy observation.