soul quotes

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

Spiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the Church!

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.

Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul.

Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.

There’s a part of you – the born-again part, your spirit – that’s dead to sin. That’s why it bothers you now when you sin. The ‚wilderness‘ part of you – your soul – is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.

In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the ‚Not Me,‘ that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, ‚Nature.‘

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

The soul is healed by being with children.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and – since there is no other metaphor – also the soul.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.

I’m sick of giving creeps money off my soul.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

When there’s justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it’s okay for me to say those things.

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

An artist or a creative person of any kind goes about their work because it’s their path, it’s what excites them, it’s what aligns their soul with who they truly are, who they showed up to be.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

The challenge for me as an actor is if you become a celebrity, you don’t meet strangers anymore. And strangers are where we have our anonymity. And I believe it’s essential for the soul to be anonymous, especially if you’re going to be an actor.

Only God can look at somebody’s heart.

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world… to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

The ‚soul‘ is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

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.

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

You see, you are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. You have emotions, you have thoughts, you have a will, and you have a conscience. You are a complex being! And Jesus came to heal every single part of you. There’s not one part that He doesn’t want to make completely whole.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.

Music from my fourth year began to be the first of my youthful occupations. Thus early acquainted with the gracious muse who tuned my soul to pure harmonies, I became fond of her, and, as it often seemed to me, she of me.

Within the soul of America is freedom of mind and spirit in man. Here alone are the open windows through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit. Here alone is human dignity not a dream but an accomplishment. Perhaps it is not perfect, but it is more full in realization here than any other place in the world.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.

Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter’s soul.

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.