quotations about the soul
The certainty of divine love and divine justice for the individual soul is that better part which no priest or potentate can take away and no revolution can defeat. And just to the extent that this is forgotten and dependence is placed on forms and ceremonies, on ecclesiastical authority, on governmental decrees, on arbitrary instruction--on anything outside of the soul itself--to exactly that extent will religion, or what passes for it, become worthless, if not corrupt.
ROSSITER JOHNSON
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"The Whispering Gallery"
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them. Some minds are incapable of skepticism.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
"Montaigne; or, the Skeptic", Representative Men
Of all battles, there are none like the unrecorded battles of the soul.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Let thy chief terror be of thine own soul:
There, 'mid the throng of hurrying desires
That trample o'er the dead to seize their spoil,
Lurks vengeance, footless, irresistible
As exhalations laden with slow death,
And o'er the fairest troop of captured joys
Breathes pallid pestilence.
GEORGE ELIOT
Daniel Deronda
Men possessing small souls are generally the authors of great evil.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY
Proverbs
Soul. The word rebounded to me, and I wondered, as I often had, what it was exactly. People talked about it all the time, but did anybody actually know? Sometimes I'd pictured it like a pilot light burning inside a person--a drop of fire from the invisible inferno people called God. Or a squashy substance, like a piece of clay or dental mold, which collected the sum of a person's experiences--a million indentations of happiness, desperation, fear, all the small piercings of beauty we've ever known.
SUE MONK KIDD
The Mermaid Chair
Unless our souls had root in soil divine
We could not bear earth's overwhelming strife.
The fiercest pain that racks this heart of mine,
Convinces me of everlasting life.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
"Pain's Proof"
The soul does contemplate and worship God; when it is not disturbed by the body.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE
Moral and Religious Aphorisms
The soul of man can never more be recalled when the spark of life has passed his lips.
HOMER
attributed, Day's Collacon
Often the soul is ripened into fuller goodness while age has spread an ugly film, so that mere glances can never divine the preciousness of the fruit.
GEORGE ELIOT
Silas Marner
Ah! soul of mine! Ah! soul of mine!
Thy sluggish senses are but bars
That stand between thee and the stars,
And shut thee from the world divine.
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND
"Intimations"
The soul is the principle of life; feeling; thought and actions in humans. It is a person's emotional or moral nature. The soul is a place for our mind; our will; emotions; senses. A place where the "I feel, I think, I see, taste etc..." exist.
LERATO CHARLOTTE LETSOSO
"The Garden: Get to know you to enjoy you", Starr 103.5 FM, July 28, 2017
My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.
FERNANDO PESSOA
The Book of Disquiet
The soul of man is an incorruptible substance, apt to receive either joy or pain both here and elsewhere.
SOLON
attributed, Day's Collacon
There is an internal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines in our lives. Those who are lucky enough to find it, ease like water over a stone, on to its fluid contours, and are home.
JOSEPHINE HART
Damage
Only by much searching and mining, are gold and diamonds obtained, and man can find every truth connected with his being, if he will dig deep into the mine of his soul.
JAMES ALLEN
As a Man Thinketh
I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body.
PAULO COELHO
Eleven Minutes