Quotes about Soul
For, rightly, every man is a channel through which heaven floweth, and, whilst I fancied I was criticising him, I was censuring orrather terminating my own soul.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies; not the smallest atom stirs or lives on matter, but has its cunning duplicate in mind.
- Herman Melville
Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next.
- John Donne
That subtle knot which makes us man So must pure lovers souls descend T affections, and to faculties, Which sense may reach and apprehend, Else a great Prince in prison lies.
- John Donne
Let man's soul be a sphere, and then, in this, The intelligence that moves, devotion is.
- John Donne
His mom lived in Long Island for ten years or so. God rest her soul. And, although, she's... wait... your mom's still... your mom's still alive. Your dad passed. God bless her soul.
- Joe Biden
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
- Oscar Wilde
Grace comes into the soul as the morning sun into the world: there is first a dawning, then a mean light, and at last the sun in his excellent brightness.
- Thomas Adams
In that first 'fusion' with Jesus (holy communion), it was my Heavenly Mother again who accompanied me to the altar for it was she herself who placed her Jesus into my soul.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
Did my infancy succeed another age of mine that dies before it? Was it that which I spent within my mother's womb?... And what before that life again, O God of my joy, was I anywhere or in any body?
- St. Augustine
A mother's body remembers her babies-the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has it's own entreaties to body and soul.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
- Napoleon Hill