Quotes about Soul
We are more than a collection of appetites - we are of God.
- John Piper
The Bible is the place where God bears His soul.
- Mark Batterson
Wherever, in any world, a soul, by free-willed obedience, catches the fire of God's likeness, it is set into the growing walls, a living stone.
- Phillips Brooks
Each elect soul ... possesses God directly and finds in that unique possession the fulfillment of his own individuality.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The soul is never quiet till it comes to God . . . and that is the one thing the soul desireth.
- Richard Sibbes
For many, 'desire' is a bad word, something we're supposed to 'give up for God.' That kind of thinking can be really destructive because it teaches people to deny their hearts, their true selves.
- Rob Bell
All plenty which is not my God is poverty to me.
- St. Augustine
The body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god's messenger.
- Erica Jong
Religious externals may have meaning for the God-inhabited soul; for any others they are not only useless but may actually become snares, deceiving them into a false and perilous sense of security.
- AW Tozer
For it is not mere words that nourish the soul, but God Himself, and unless and until the hearers find God in personal experience they are not the better for having heard the truth.
- AW Tozer
In the same way that a powerful medicine cures an illness, so illness itself is a medicine to cure passion. And there is much profit of soul in bearing illness quietly and giving thanks to God.
- Syncletica of Alexandria
Ah, Lord God, thou holy lover of my soul, when thou comest into my heart, all that is within me shall rejoice.
- Thomas a Kempis