Soul Quotes - Page 285

The acme of humbleness is to forget unfalteringly good deeds of oneself.

If you want to conquer lust for wealth, love selflessness and sparing way of life.

Grieve only if you have committed a sin, but even in this case do not grieve too much, otherwise you may become desperate.

The one who wants to love God has to take care about the purity of the soul, first of all.

This purity is attained through conquering the passions.

The one who has not conquered the passions cannot enter the chaste and pure region of the heart.

Do not hate a sinner, for we all are to be res­pon­sible.

The acme of love is to enhance your friendly attitude to those who insult and revile you.

And "withdrawal from the world" is nothing but the destruction of passions and manifestation of the innermost life in Christ.

every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works, yet we require critics to explain the one and biographers to expound the other. That time hangs heavy on people's hands is the only explanation of the monstrous growth.

It rasped her, though, to have stirring about in her this brutal monster! to hear twigs cracking and feel hooves planted down in the depths of that leaf-encumbered forest, the soul; never to be content quite, or quite secure, for at any moment the brute would be stirring, this hatred.

There is no plummet to sound another's soul.

According to Jains the soul in pure form has infiniteness in terms of its knowledge and power. These faculties are obstructed for its exhibition due to Karmic bondage. As the soul progresses in its morality and spirituality it gets certain powers which may look miraculous.

Matter is a term contrary to soul. But nonsoul is its contradictory. Whatever is not soul is nonsoul.

The occult powers may be possessed by soul, but if they are not used in the right way it is a loss rather than a gain.

The true nature of soul is right knowledge, right faith and right conduct. The soul, so long as it is subject to transmigration, is undergoing evolution and involution.

If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body's sufferings. We shall become free.

Would that God, Monsieur, had rendered us worthy of spending our lives, as Our Lord did, for the salvation of those poor souls so far removed from all assistance.

When you look at the basis for the immortality of the soul, you have these foundationless speculations and really, no intelligent reason for believing that there's life after death.

There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.

This is the last sentence of my dissertation: "What is soul in music if not powerfully embodied human presence?"

Dear Aspiring Author; Write with heart. Put that open, honest, bare soul on paper.

‎"Dost thou understand? I love thee!" he cried again."What love!" said the unhappy girl with a shudder.He resumed,--"The love of a damned soul.

Is there not in every human soul a primitive spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world and immortal in the next, which can be developed by goodness, kindled, lit up, and made to radiate, and which evil can never entirely extinguish.

A breath of Paris preserves the soul.