Quotes about Soul
When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Beauty awakens the soul to act.
- Dante Alighieri
There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
- Joseph Addison
Souls will never ascend to Heaven until the sight of beauty lifts them there.
- Michelangelo
The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty is solved by redemption of the soul.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the Lord counts the natural beauty of the body inferior to that of the soul, what thinks He of spurious beauty, rejecting utterly as He does all falsehood?
- Clement of Alexandria
The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.
- William Hazlitt
The splendor of a soul in grace is so seductive that it surpasses the beauty of all created things.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
The first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day is to have my soul happy in the Lord.
- George Muller
Man's soul has three powers, and God left him prophets for all three: Jewish moralists for his will, Greek philosophers for his mind, and pagan mythmakers for his heart and imagination and feelings. Of course, the latter two are not infallible.
- Peter Kreeft
Stand in the divine rain, and seeds of wisdom will grow in your soul.
- Peter Kreeft
It is why God created matter, most of all the human body, which has the greatest power to make spirit visible. (Thus the philosopher Wittgenstein, asked what a human soul could possibly look like, answered, "Like a human body.")
- Peter Kreeft