Quotes about Soul
Not everything you do is going to be a masterpiece, but you get art there and you try and sometimes it really happens. The other times you're just stretching your soul.
- Maya Angelou
Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul.
- Marc Chagall
True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind.
- Mahatma Gandhi
People should practice an art in order to make their souls grow and not to make money or become famous. Paint a picture. Write.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
What thou art, that thou art.
- Thomas a Kempis
Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar: Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come
- William Wordsworth
This nature is twofold; it includes not only the whole visible world of phenomena which is outside man, but also, in a wider sense, man himself; not his body alone, but his soul also.
- Herman Bavinck
The absolute, immutable, and inviolable supremacy of that will of God is the light which special revelation holds before our soul's eye at the end of time.
- Herman Bavinck
The whole man is taken into fellowship with that one true God; not only his feelings, but also his mind and will, his heart and all his affections, his soul and his body.
- Herman Bavinck
Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
- Herman Melville
We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its voice; and dead to its death. And not till we know, that one grief outweighs ten thousand joys will we become what Christianity is striving to make us.
- Herman Melville