Soul Quotes - Page 24

Woman's soul is present and lives more intensely in all parts of the body, and it is inwardly affected by that which happens to the body; whereas, with men, the body has more pronoucedly the character of an instrument which serves them in their work and which is accompanied by a certain detachment.

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

The soul knows everything. Be who you are and your life will transform forever.

Conscience was the barmaid of the Victorian soul. Recognizing that human beings were fallible and that their failings, though regrettable, must be humored, conscience would permit, rather ungraciously perhaps, the indulgence of a number of carefully selected desires.

It is impossible to save one's soul without devotion to Mary and without her protection.

Faith is the soul going out of itself for all its wants.

They proved to me by convincing reasons that God does not exist; Afterwards I saw God, for he came and embraced me. And now what am I to believe- the reasoning of others or my own experience? Truth is what the soul has seen and experienced; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.

I am not ignorant of what is said of my Lord in the Psalm: "You destroy those who speak a lie." And again: "A lying mouth deals death to the soul." And likewise the Lord says in the Gospel: "On the day of judgment men shall render account for every idle word they utter."

Every morning prepare your soul for a tranquil day.

We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE.

Affliction strengthens the vigor of our soul, whereas happiness weakens it.

Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

This body is a tent which for a space Does the pure soul with kingly presence grace; When he departs, comes the tent-pitcher, Death, Strikes it, and moves to a new halting-place.

Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium.

Being able to articulate the gospel with accuracy is one thing; having its truth captivate your soul is quite another.

If you visit the killing floor of a slaughterhouse, it will brand your soul for life.

One wants to be loved, in lack thereof admired, in lack thereof feared, in lack thereof loathed and despised. One wants to instill some sort of emotion in people. The soul trembles before emptiness and desires contact at any price.

My soul bleeds and the blood steadily, silently, disturbingly slowly, swallows me whole.

We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be.

Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.

I never cared,” he said. “I wanted you anyway. I always wanted you.

Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.

The good that binds us is Love, it comes from our Soul, it flows through our center, and connects us with everything.

There is nothing more soul-satisfying than the first succulent bite into the juicy frankfurter.

The kind of hope that I often think about…I understand above all as a state of mind, not a state of the world. Either we have hope within us, or we don’t. It is a dimension of the soul It’s not essentially dependent upon some particular observation of the world or estimate of the situation. Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.