Quotes about Soul

Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.

It is profitable for Christians to be often calling to mind the very beginnings of grace with their souls.

When power is the only coin, they said, you have nothing left to sell but your soul.

For true doctrine is not a matter of the tongue, but of life; neither is Christian doctrine grasped only by the intellect and memory, as truth is grasped in other fields of study. Rather, doctrine is rightly received when it takes possession of the entire soul and finds a dwelling place and shelter in the most intimate affections of the heart.

Since the life of the soul is bound to God, those who are by sin alienated from him are to be regarded as dead.

For he has this comfort, which provides greater security to him than the highest peak of wealth or power— he knows that his affairs are ordered by the Lord and, as such, promote his salvation. We see this sentiment in David, who, while following God and entrusting himself to God's rule, declared: "I do not occupy myself with things too great and marvelous for me. But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother" (Ps. 131:1—2).

It was in olden times truly observed by Cato, that there is great concern about the appearance of the body but great carelessness about virtue. There is also an old proverb, that they who pay much attention to the body generally neglect the soul.

They who restrict this appellation to   the inferior part of the soul are greatly deceived. For since the soul   of man is vitiated in every part, and the reason of man is not less   blind than his affections are perverse, the whole is properly called   carnal.

By the word letter Paul means preaching which is external and does not reach the heart; by Spirit he means teaching which is alive, which works mightily in the souls of men by the grace of the Spirit. Letter

How detestable, I ask you, is this madness: that man, finding God in his body and soul a hundred times, on this very pretense of excellence denies that there is a God?

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life. It cannot be grasped by reason and memory only, but it is fully understood when it possesses the whole soul and penetrates to the inner recesses of the heart.