Soul Quotes - Page 72

Let us be satisfied simply with what sustains our present life, not with what pampers it. Let us pray to God for this, as we have been taught, so that we may keep our souls unenslaved and absolutely free from domination by any of the visible things loved for the sake of the body. Let us show that we eat for the sake of living, and not be guilty of living for the sake of eating. The first is a sign of intelligence, the second proof of its absence.

In the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.

Remember to set apart at least one hour every day to do some service for others. While the food we eat nurtures our bodies, it is what we give in charity that nurtures our souls. If time is not available daily, reserve at least a few hours every week for some worthwhile act of charity.

This morning it occurred to me for the first time that my body, my faithful companion and friend, truer and better known to me than my own soul, may be after all only a sly beast who will end by devouring his master.

Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy. It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth, But rather a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted.

People say that eyes are windows to the soul.

Even a woman who has the soul of a pirate, at least pirate morals, even a woman who prefer loneliness to the bickerings and constraints of heterosexual marriage, even such a woman who is a freak in our society needs a home... The only characteristic freaks share is our knowledge that we don't fit in.

When you hear a word from God it resonates in the pillars of your soul.

A good man knows when to sacrifice himself, a bad man survives but loses his soul.

Jail was preferable. There they only limited you physically. In a mental ward they tampered with your soul and worldview and mind.

The Swamp of Despond is that place set before the narrow gate where true and false pilgrims alike are assaulted by their own internal corruption and pollution. The dirt and scum that has attached itself to our hearts and minds is agitated and revealed by both the workings of a guilty conscience and the devouring avarice of the enemy of our souls.The

Manic depression's touching my soul. I know what I want, but I just don't know how to go about getting it.

Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity.

She's a tear that hangs inside my soul forever.

Your soul can fly outward, stringed to your ribcage like a shimmering kite in the shape of an open hand. Be still and listen to the evidence of your own holiness.

Loss means losing what was. We want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul.

The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love

Keep your face upturned to Christ as the flowers do to the sun. Look, and your soul shall live and grow

If a man can reach the latter days of his life with his soul intact, he has mastered life.

This perceiving, active being is what I call mind, spirit, soul, or myself. By which words I do not denote any one of my ideas, but a thing entirely distinct from them, wherein they exist, or, which is the same thing, whereby they are perceived; for the existence of an idea consists in being perceived.

God has a purpose in every life, and when the soul is completely yielded and acquiescent, He will certainly realize it. Blessed is he who has never thwarted the working of the divine ideal.

A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

The Soul selects her own Society.