SOUL QUOTES VII

quotations about the soul

The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul.

BIBLE

Proverbs 13:19

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The living soul of man, once conscious of its power, cannot be quelled.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts

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The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

FERDINAND FOCH

attributed, The 32d Infantry Division in World War II


For it appears to be possible that a soul of a higher order may inhabit a body of a lower, and a soul of a lower order a body of a higher.

ST. AUGUSTINE

The City of God

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If I were a carpenter, I would build you a window to my soul. But I would leave that window shut and locked, so that every time you tried to look through it all you would see is your own reflection. You would see that my soul is a reflection of you.

COLLEEN HOOVER

Point of Retreat


There are apartments in the soul which have a glorious outlook; from whose windows you can see across the river of death, and into the shining city beyond; but how often are these neglected for the lower ones, which have earthward-looking windows.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Thoughts

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What use do I put my soul to? It is a serviceable question this, and should frequently be put to oneself. How does my ruling part stand affected? And whose soul have I now? That of a child, or a young man, or a feeble woman, or of a tyrant, of cattle or wild beasts.

MARCUS AURELIUS

Meditations

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The human soul is God's treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter -- often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter -- in the eye.

CHARLOTTE BRONTË

Jane Eyre

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I don't deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know because it hurts.

DOUGLAS COUPLAND

The Gum Thief


My body seems a mere encumbrance to me; an imbecillic wagon, hitched to the horse of desire, which is the soul.

ROBERT E. HOWARD

letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, August 28, 1925

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In the greatest confusion there is still an open channel to the soul. It may be difficult to find because by midlife it is overgrown, and some of the wildest thickets that surround it grow out of what we describe as our education. But the channel is always there, and it is our business to keep it open, to have access to the deepest part of ourselves.

SAUL BELLOW

foreword, The Closing of the American Mind

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It seems to me absolutely true, that our world, which appears to us the surface of all things, is really the bottom of a deep ocean: all our trees are submarine growths, and we are weird, scaly-clad submarine fauna, feeding ourselves on offal like shrimps. Only occasionally the soul rises gasping through the fathomless fathoms under which we live, far up to the surface of the ether, where there is true air.

D. H. LAWRENCE

Lady Chatterley's Lover

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Look how much the soul is better than the body; so much more grievous are the diseases of the soul than the griefs of the body.

DIOGENES

attributed, Day's Collacon


Taken as a whole, the universe is absurd. There seems an unalterable contradiction between the human mind and its employments. How can a soul be a merchant? What relation to an immortal being have the price of linseed, the fall of butter, the tare on tallow, or the brokerage on hemp? Can an undying creature debit "petty expenses," and charge for "carriage paid"?

WALTER BAGEHOT

Literary Studies

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Each man's soul is his genius.

XENOCRATES

attributed, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor

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Bow with submission before thy soul's dictates rather than before the world's.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

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Emotions are the colors of the soul.

WM. PAUL YOUNG

The Shack

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The mind as a glass, receives all images; and the soul becomes that with which it is in conjunction.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms


Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of your future, therefore you can trust this indirect, oblique side of yourself. If you do, it will take you where you need to go, but more important it will teach you a kindness of rhythm in your journey.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom