SOUL QUOTES X

quotations about the soul

I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body.

PAULO COELHO

Eleven Minutes


Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it.

ST. JEROME

attributed, Day's Collacon


For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates ... in the soul, and overflows from thence, as from the head into the eyes.

PLATO

Charmides

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Unless our souls had root in soil divine
We could not bear earth's overwhelming strife.
The fiercest pain that racks this heart of mine,
Convinces me of everlasting life.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

"Pain's Proof"

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The soul of man; what is it? That is the question. One thing is certain to my mind, it is immortal and cannot die. It is supposed to be an invisible spirit, ordering, ruling, and in every way guiding the mind, which transmits those orders to the brain, the brain then putting the machinery of the body in motion. The nerves and organs of the body likewise communicate with the brain direct, as the nerves of the eye, ear, nose, mouth, hand, foot, face, leg, arm, &c. &c. When the body is asleep and at rest, the mind is often most active, which seems in itself to be, as it were, a kind of pointing to the soul's immortality. It is, indeed, wonderful to think that when the sun, the moon, and stars shall have grown dim and faded, and the earth we live in melted into infinite space, and time shall have rolled on its countless course of years--in number quite beyond the limited comprehension of mortal man--his immortal soul shall still be alive and young, either clad like the angels in the beauty of holiness, with everlasting bliss and peace as its portion, or the reverse.

T. AUGUSTUS FORBES LEITH

"On the Soul of Man", Short Essays


The soul's vitality after death is proportionate to its vitality before death.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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The soul of man is an incorruptible substance, apt to receive either joy or pain both here and elsewhere.

SOLON

attributed, Day's Collacon


There may be a soul of the world, there may be ... a psychical side, of which we are not aware, to every atom in the universe, and the psychical side, like the moon, may show us ever but the one face, the other forever in the shadow; but, at best, this is only a conjecture, it presents no solid foundation upon which to rest a theory.

JOHN GRIER HIBBEN

The Problems of Philosophy

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The certainty of divine love and divine justice for the individual soul is that better part which no priest or potentate can take away and no revolution can defeat. And just to the extent that this is forgotten and dependence is placed on forms and ceremonies, on ecclesiastical authority, on governmental decrees, on arbitrary instruction--on anything outside of the soul itself--to exactly that extent will religion, or what passes for it, become worthless, if not corrupt.

ROSSITER JOHNSON

"The Whispering Gallery"


The soul is the principle of life; feeling; thought and actions in humans. It is a person's emotional or moral nature. The soul is a place for our mind; our will; emotions; senses. A place where the "I feel, I think, I see, taste etc..." exist.

LERATO CHARLOTTE LETSOSO

"The Garden: Get to know you to enjoy you", Starr 103.5 FM, July 28, 2017


Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them. Some minds are incapable of skepticism.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

"Montaigne; or, the Skeptic", Representative Men

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There is an internal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines in our lives. Those who are lucky enough to find it, ease like water over a stone, on to its fluid contours, and are home.

JOSEPHINE HART

Damage

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Strong souls
Live like fire-hearted suns to spend their strength
In farthest striving action; breathe more free
In mighty anguish than in trivial ease.

GEORGE ELIOT

The Spanish Gypsy

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Of all battles, there are none like the unrecorded battles of the soul.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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This private multidimensional self, or the soul, has ... an eternal validity. It is upheld, supported, maintained by the energy, the inconceivable vitality, of All That Is.

JANE ROBERTS

Seth Speaks


Just coffee. Black -- like my soul.

CASSANDRA CLARE

City of Bones

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Men possessing small souls are generally the authors of great evil.

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY

Proverbs

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