Soul Quotes - Page 33

The Bible is to your soul what bread is to your body. You need it daily. One good meal does not suffice for a lifetime.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

The allotted function of art is not, as is often assumed, to put across ideas, to propagate thoughts, to serve as an example. The aim of art is to prepare a person for death, to plough and harrow his soul, rendering it capable of turning to good.

It's a treat being a runner, out in the world by yourself with not a soul to make you bad-tempered or tell you what to do.

We tend by a secret law of the soul to move toward our mental image of God.

Say as you think and speak it from your souls.

There is no joy in the world like the joy of bringing one soul to Christ.

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

Through the intensive aspiration of the human soul arises in man the desire for independence.

There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read may read our natures.

What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.

Talk to yourself in two languages - what do I fear and what do I love - in order to balance the body and the soul.

"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." Blessed are those who have preserved internal sanctity of soul; who are conscious of no secret deceit; who are the same in act as they are in desire; who conceal no thought, no tendencies of thought, from their own conscience; who are faithful and sincere witnesses, before the tribunal of their own judgments, of all that passes within their mind. Such as these shall see God.

Oh yes! he loved yellow, this good Vincent, this painter from Holland - those glimmers of sunlight rekindled his soul, that abhorred the fog, that needed the warmth.

The hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most.

Whatever the soul chooses to love, it will resemble. And therefore what we choose to love is important: Love is the force behind every level of existence. There is some good in every attraction, but there is a process of refining attraction, of choosing what to love, so that we are energized by a wider, purer love

For a soul to come to Jesus, is the grandest event in its history.

Herb Brooks, God rest his soul, wasn't coaching a Dream Team. He was coaching a team full of dreamers.

In the second half of life, the questions become: 'Who, apart from the roles you play, are you? What does the soul ask of you? Do you have the wherewithal to shift course, to deconstruct your painfully achieved identity, risking failure, marginalization and loss of collective approval?' No small task.

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

But of all the water's secrets, he saw today only a single one-one that struck his soul. He saw that this water flowed and flowed, it was constantly flowing, and yet it was always there; it was always eternally the same and yet new at every moment! Oh, to be able to grasp this, to understand this!

Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.

We should all realize that no matter where or how a man dies, if he is in the state of mortal sin and does not repent, when he could have done so and did not, the Devil tears his soul from his body with such anguish and distress that only a person who has experienced it can appreciate it.

How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?