Soul Quotes - Page 86

Never let your soul be silenced. Live life out loud. Every day tell your truth not with words but with actions from your heart.

If the eyes are the window to your soul open eyes bring the cold.

For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is.

A charge to keep I have, A God to glorify; A never dying soul to save, And fit it for the sky.

If we had to preach to thousands year after year, and never rescued but one soul, that one soul would be a full reward for all our labour, for a soul is of countless price.

You are a slave of what you need in your soul.

Painting, art in general, enchants me. It is my life. What else matters? When you put all your soul into a work, all that is noble in you, you cannot fail to find a kindred soul who understands you, and you do not need a host of such spirits. Is not that all an artist should wish for?

Guard, O my soul, against pomp and glory. And if you cannot curb your ambitions, at least pursue them hesitantly, cautiously. And the higher you go, the more searching and careful you need to be.

Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul.

Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination we never find belief.

After a few (or many) bad relationships, its so easy to shut down, give up, and stop believing that the right person is out there for us. Our hearts yearn to fall in love, but our minds insist its not possible, and we enter into a tug-of-war with ourselves. Its as if one part of us is screaming, Yes! I deserve a great relationship! while another part insists, Ill never find him or her. When our beliefs contradict our desires, we experience an inner conflict that not only paralyzes us, but can actually prevent us from recognizing the possibilities for love that exist all around us.

May each one of us glorify the Lord with the soul of Mary and rejoice in God with the spirit of Mary

He who suffers in patience, surfers less and saves his soul. He who suffers impatiently, suffers more and loses his soul.

Maybe God is calling you to do something extraordinary that isn't on your calendar; something to revive your soul!

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.

To have faith in the Word, Scripture must not grasp us in our critical thought, but in the life of the soul.

Your body is the garage where you park your soul.

Don’t be one of those souls who says, ‘If only I had my life to live over.’ Live your life in such a way that once is enough.

Honest and earnest criticism from those whose interests are most nearly touched,- criticism of writers by readers, of government by those governed, of leaders by those led, - this is the soul of democracy and the safeguard of modern society

Your soul either feels lifted by something that you read, or it feels squashed by it.

But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation.

You are as prone to love as the sun is to shine; it being the most delightful and natural employment of the soul of humans.

The deepest need of humans is not food and clothing and shelter, important as they are. It is God. We have mistaken the nature of poverty, and thought it was economic poverty. No, it is poverty of the soul, deprivation of God's recreating, loving peace.

Half-instructed confessors have done my soul great harm; for I could not always have such learned ones as I would have desired. They certainly did not wish to deceive me, but the fact was that they knew no better. Of something which was a venial sin, they said it was no sin, and out of a very grave mortal sin they made a venial sin. This has done me such harm, that my speaking here of so great an evil, as a warning to others, will be readily understood.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.