Soul Quotes - Page 44

Those who go forth ministering to the wants and necessities of their fellow beings experience a rich return, their souls being as a watered garden, and a spring that faileth not

You haven't been soiling your soul in public for years like we have.

We built a coalition of conscience, and that we can do it again, and we can go forward, and help redeem the soul of America.

Faith and hope...are the wings by which our souls, rising above the world, are lifted up to God.

Great sins do draw out great grace; and where guilt is most terrible and fierce, there the mercy of God in Christ, when showed to the soul, appears most high and mighty.

All consolation that does not come from God is but desolation; when the soul has learned to receive no comfort but in God only, it has passed beyond the reach of desolation.

You are not an encapsulated bag of skin dragging around a dreary little ego. You are an evolutionary wonder, a trillion cells singing together in a vast chorale, an organism – environment, a symbiosis of cell and soul.

Well, you split your soul, you see, and hide part of it in an object outside the body. Then, even if one’s body is attacked or destroyed, one cannot die, for part of the soul remains earthbound and undamaged. But of course, existence in such a form . . .

One of the most admirable effects of Holy Communion is to preserve the soul from sin, and to help those who fall through weakness to rise again. It is much more profitable, then, to approach this divine Sacrament with love, respect, and confidence, than to remain away through an excess of fear and scrupulosity.

The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.

The soul that can speak through the eyes can also kiss with a gaze.

Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.

The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.

Search your heart, search your soul, and when you find me there you'll search no more.

Yoga is the only exercise in the world you can do at any age. There is always some posture that will improve your health, mind and soul.

Because when God heals a body, that is temporal; but when God saves a soul, that has eternal importance.

It's not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.

It is a solemn thing to find oneself drawn out in prayer which knows no relief till the soul it is burdened with is born. It is no less solemn afterwards, until Christ is formed in them.

When we relate to our bodies as having soul, we attend to their beauty, their poetry and their expressiveness. Our very habit of treating the body as a machine, whose muscles are like pulleys and its organs engines, forces its poetry underground, so that we experience the body as an instrument and see its poetics only in illness.

Stars open among the lilies. Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens? This is the silence of astounded souls.

The soul is in God and God in the soul, just as the fish is in the sea and the sea in the fish.

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread. If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul. If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek.

The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul.

All happenings, great and small, are parables whereby God speaks. The art of life is to get the message. To see all that is offered us at the windows of the soul, and to reach out and receive what is offered, this is the art of living.