Quotes about Soul

We have been moving along at such a fast pace that we no longer know what we are doing. Now we have to wait until our soul catches up with us.

We don't have a soul. We are a soul. We happen to have a body.

If the mystery of the cross becomes the inner form of this science, a living energy that allows the soul to be molded by what is received from this mystery, it turns into a science of the cross . On the contrary, excessive interior preoccupation with one's own personal concerns can develop in the course of life into a general indifference to things religious.

Poetry and art are the breath of life to her.

It was a kiss with a future in it: like a ring slipped upon her soul. And now, in the dreadful pause that followed--while Strefford fidgeted with his cigarette-case and rattled the spoon in his cup--Susy remembered what she had seen through the circle of Nick's kiss: that blue illimitable distance which was at once the landscape at their feet and the future in their souls.

Soul is more bruisable than flesh, and Juila was wounded in every fiber of her spirit.

True religion is real living living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in our health, or we suffer in our soul, or we get fat.

The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's 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.

When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.