Quotes about Soul

the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, "I'll be dead," you've said the word I, and so you're still alive inside the sentence. And that's how people got the idea of the immortality of the soul — it was a consequence of grammar.

Zenia has stolen something from him, the one thing he always kept safe before, from all women, even from Roz. Call it his soul. She slipped it out of his breast pocket when he wasn't looking, easy as rolling a drunk, and looked at it, and bit it to see if it was genuine, and sneered at it for being so small after all, and then tossed it away, because she's the kind of woman who wants what she doesn't have and gets what she wants and then despises what she gets. What

Who can fathom the secrets of the human soul?" I said. "None of us is exempt from sin.

Single strand of pearls, wild, not cultured. (Worth it, she said: only the wild ones had souls.)

Both heaven and earth rejoice when a saint escapes the earthly body: Heaven because a soul has triumphed over the devil. And earth because a saint is a prickly person to live with.

Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.

When we grow careless of keeping our souls, then God recovers our taste of good things again by sharp crosses.

Are stress and worry evidence of a soul too lazy, too undisciplined, to keep gaze fixed on God?

The peace of the world concerns only body and time but the peace, the joy, that Christ gives enriches the soul for eternity

Every time you open up your heart in obedience to God and worship Him with all your heart, all your mind, and all your soul, our beautiful Lord responds with His magnificent presence.

It is a common rule with primitive people not to waken a sleeper, because his soul is away and might not have time to get back.

The fact is, we are leaky vessels, and we have to keep right under the fountain all the time to keep full of Christ, and so have fresh supply.