Quotes about Soul
Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
- Jimmy Carter
When the words come, they are merely empty shells without the music. They live as they are sung, for the words are the body and the music the spirit.
- Hildegard of Bingen
Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.
- Martin Luther
Music connects with the soul. I think it's the quickest art form to the soul.
- Chris Tomlin
Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.
- Aristotle
Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.
- Aristotle
Music religious heat inspires, It wakes the soul, and lifts it high, And wings it with sublime desires, And fits it to bespeak the Deity.
- Joseph Addison
There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.
- Washington Irving
I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.
- Jonathan Edwards
The inner nature of man is the province of Music.
- Confucius
Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God - the Teacher of the teacher.
- Tertullian