Soul Quotes - Page 340

It is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain. I have had twenty-five or thirty souls, with their bodies, at once under my roof, and yet we often parted without being aware that we had come very near to one another.

Where there is not discernment, the behavior even of the purest soul may in effect amount to coarseness.

The order of things should be reversed; the seventh day should be the day of toil...and the other six his Sabbath of the affections and the soul, in which to range this widerspread garden, and drink in the soft influences and sublime revelations of Nature.

The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies.

I would remind my countrymen, that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour. No matter how valuable law may be to protect your property, even to keep soul and body together, if it do not keep you and humanity together.

On tops of mountains, as everywhere to hopeful souls, it is always morning.

For the Soul of France is masterful history, brilliantly researched, and hard to put down.

I was forced to enter the basement of my soul and look directly at what was hidden there, and to choose, in the face of it all, not death but life.

There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute; for feeling, except in the infinite; for the soul, except in the divine.

The soul may be immortal because she is fitted to rise towards that which is neither born nor dies, towards that which exists substantially, necessarily, invariably, that is to say towards God.

Joy is the vital air of the soul.

We are all visionaries, and what we see is our soul in things.

At bottom, everything depends upon the presence or absence of one single element in the soul - HOPE

The very fact that the youthful soul feels insecure strengthens its active aspiration to master its insecurity.

I have an unshakable belief that mankind's higher nature is on the whole still dormant. The greatest souls reveal excellencies of mind and heart which their lesser fellows possess-hidden, it is true, but there all the same.

To be resigned means to find satisfaction in self-denial (Self-denial is the denial of one's lower self).

The great writer finds style as the mystic finds God, in his own soul.

Beyond the window, some kind of small, black thing shot across the sky. A bird, possibly. Or it might have been someone's soul being blown to the far side of the world.

Was it Aristotle who said the human soul is composed of reason, will, and desire?” “No, that was Plato. Aristotle and Plato were as different as Mel Tormé and Bing Crosby. In any case, things were a lot simpler in the old days,” Komatsu said. “Wouldn’t it be fun to imagine reason, will, and desire engaged in a fierce debate around a table?

I'm not sure that there's anybody else that's as psychologically complex and who's given us this window into his soul that Nixon gave us. That's what I find absolutely addictive and seductive.

I b'lieve in religion, and one of these days, when I've got matters tight and snug, I calculates to tend to my soul.

Great as the planning were for the dinner, the lot was so contrived that not a soul in the house be supposed to be kept from the break of day ceremony of Blessing in the church.

After all, let a man take what pains he may to hush it down, a human soul is an awful, ghostly, unquiet possession for a bad man to have. Who knows the metes and bounds of it? Who knows all its awful perhapses,--those shudderings and tremblings, which it can no more live down than it can outlive its own eternity?

Let my soul calm itself, O Christ, in Thee. This is true.

The soul awakes ... between two dim eternities - the eternal past, the eternal future.