Soul Quotes - Page 272

True originality has its foundations in the soul, not in the mind, and when there is an effort to create something different it is usually a failure. Beethoven or Schumann or Chopin did not try to be original. They were original.

You cannot judge by outward appearances; the soul is only transparent to its Maker.

If God is a reality, and the soul is a reality, and you are an immortal being, what are you doing with your Bible shut?

As in digging for precious metals in the mines, much earthy rubbish has first to be troublesomely handled and thrown out; so, in digging in one's soul for the fine gold of genius, much dullness and common-place is first brought to light.

The cruelty of a Fijian god, who, represented as devouring the souls of the dead, may be supposed to inflict torture during the process, is small compared with the cruelty of a God who condemns men to tortures which are eternal.

Governments know that the life of the world cannot be saved if the soul of the world is allowed to be lost.

The soul, Advancing ever to the source of light And all perfection, lives, adores, and reigns In cloudless knowledge, purity, and bliss.

One truly affectionate soul in a family will evert a sweetening and harmonizing influence upon all its members.

Church and State, Soul and Body, God and Man, are all one at Mont Saint Michel, and the business of all is to fight, each in his own way, or to stand guard for each other.

The soul of the artist cannot remain hidden.

The ship, built on one element, but designed to have its life in another, seemed an image of the soul, formed and fashioned with many a weary hammer-stroke in this life, but finding its true element only when it sails out into the ocean of eternity.

Consult your spirit, your soul on everything.

You are not a soul, you are not a mind, you are not a body. You are the controller of all three.

When words fail to express the exalted sentiments and finer emotions of the human heart, music becomes the sublimated language of the soul, the divine instrumentality for its higher utterance.

PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction.

The soul bride shall never be a widow, she shall never suffer sorrow.

It's raining my soul, it's raining, but it's raining dead eyes.

Our souls - our invisible selves - bear the mark of God Himself. We're like God in that we bear His image.

If we don't have souls then who am I talking to when I keep telling myself to be good?

Perhaps living souls had greater phantom powers than the dead.

I like to mix and match things so I'm infusing a little bit of jazz, a little bit of classical, a little bit of soul, into the whole blues idiom and I'm coming up with something that I'm really interested in.

We are talking about an artist; and for the enjoyment of the artist the mask must be to some extent moulded on the face. What he makes outside him must correspond to something inside him; he can only make his effects out of some of the materials of his soul.

Every real object must cease to be what it seemed, and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.

Never was there a more injurous mistake than to say it was thebusiness only of the clergy to care for souls.

I am an emptiness for Thee to fill; my soul a cavern for Thy sea