Soul Quotes - Page 245

My children, mark me. I pray you. Know! God loves my soul so much that his very life and being depend upon his loving me, whether he would or no. To stop God loving me would be to rob him of his Godhood; for God is love no less than he is truth; as he is good, so is he love as well. It is the absolute truth, as God lives... If anyone would ask me what God is, I should answer: God is love, and so altogether lovely that creatures all with one accord essay to love his loveliness, whether they do so knowingly or unbeknownst, in joy or sorrow.

If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.

Whoever knows it also knows that in love there is no More and no Less; but that he who loves can only love with the whole heart, and with the whole soul; with all his strength and with all his will.

Liberty is a soul’s right to breathe.

A soul needs a purpose to live and so I concluded that my purpose was to kill everyone besides myself. I felt alive. --Gaara

To preach Christ is to feed the soul, to justify it, to set it free, and to save it, if it believes the preaching.

Certain souls may seem harsh to others, but it is just a way, beknownst only to them, of caring and feeling more deeply.

I traveled the globe as always, handing souls to the conveyor belt of eternity.

The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable.

The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.

The prime duty of help to the poor by the Church is not to bring temporal relief to their needs, but salvation to their souls.

I have sold my soul. I would sell my soul, if I could have it all.

In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the energy of the soul is indestructible.

You don't have to be doing vocal acrobatics or singing all over the scale to have soul.

Every heart is the other heart. Every soul is the other soul. Every face is the other face. The individual is the one illusion.

Economics are the method; the object is to change the soul.

The life of the soul is incalculable.

Things themselves cannot touch the soul, not in the least degree, nor have they admission to the soul nor can they turn or move the soul: it turns and moves itself alone and whatever judgment it may think proper to make, such it makes by remaking for itself the things that present themselves to it

Things can never touch the soul, but stand inert outside it, so that disquiet can arise only from fancies within.

Outward objects cannot take hold of the soul, nor force their passage into her, nor set any of her wheels going. No, the impression comes from herself, and it is her own motions which affect her. As for the contingencies of fortune, they are either great or little, according to the opinion she has of her own strength.

I did some more soul searching. I asked myself, "What do I want more than happiness?" and there was only one answer - the only thing that trumps happiness is love. Not the kind of love we are normally taught about, but the kind of unconditional love that is a deep inner state which doesn't depend on any person, situation or a romantic partner. That's how I define Love for No Reason: it's an inner state of love.

My national service is part of my training for freeing my soul from the bondage of the flesh.

Unhappy love freezes all our affections: our own souls grow inexplicable to us. More than we gained while we were happy we lose by the reverse.

One thing I know about Willie Hutch: my homie, [Big] Jerm, listens to nothing but Soul music, so he put me on to all this Soul music back in the day.

I only give expression to the instincts from my soul.