Quotes about Soul

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as sharers in common with thee in the produce of nature, which brings forth the fruits of the earth for use to all.

Sometimes I need to be a stranger to myself. Only then my soul can show me not what I want, but what I need to see.

God not only wants to break the outer man...He wants our spirit and our soul...our inner man and outer man to be separated from each other.

Tithe in kind where your spirit is fed.

Life is short, and we are dull, and eternal things are necessary, and the souls that depend on our teaching are precious.

The life of the soul is incalculable.

In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.

What the soul cries out for is the resurrection of the senses. Even in this life, matter would be nothing to us if it were not the source of sensations.

Jesus poured out his soul in life before he poured it out unto death

Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed....Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never.

Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.