Soul Quotes

• The great power of separating the watching mind from the thinking mind is that the watching mind is innately loving. Some call this part of the psyche the 'compassionate witness.' Sharing our difficult feelings with a compassionate witness is the crucial step that heals the infinite small wounds inflicted upon the soul by everyday life.

  

  Martha Beck
  • Life
  • Great
  • Thinking

• Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.

  

  Coretta Scott King
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Soul

• Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate as a poison to the soul, however pleasant and salutary it may appear to be to the body.

  

  Johann Arndt
  • God
  • May
  • Fear

• The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.

  

  J. G. Holland
  • Life
  • Spiritual
  • Soul And Body

• Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

  

  Francois Fenelon
  • Friends
  • Soul
  • Sad

• Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people.

  

  Anwar Sadat
  • People
  • Believe
  • Fear

• Earth's biggest country 's gut her soul,An' risen up earth's greatest nation.

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • Up
  • Country
  • Earth

• So far as I can see, the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained for ages. There used to be so-called laws of war, which made it tolerable. Now we know the truth. War knows no law except that of might. The atomic bomb brought an empty victory but it resulted for the time being in destroying the soul of Japan. What has happened to the soul of the destroying nation is yet too early to see.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Victory
  • Destroying

• My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured soul.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Silence
  • Lying
  • Grief

• Mixed feelings, like mixed drinks, are a confusion to the soul.

  

  George Carman
  • Soul

• What is man but a little soul holding up a corpse?

  

  Malcolm Lowry
  • Up
  • Soul

• I hate playing the piano! And it's so hard to fight for Beethoven's soul! But that's what I have to do!

  

  Charles Hazlewood
  • Soul
  • Hate

• Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his soul might die before his body does; or that his soul might die without his knowing it?

  

  Albert J. Nock
  • Why
  • Nature
  • Die

• The soul is the cause or source of the living body. The terms cause and source have many senses. But the soul is the cause of its body alike in all three senses which we explicitly recognize. It is (a) the source or origin of movement, it is (b) the end, it is (c) the essence of the whole living body.

  

  Aristotle
  • End
  • Movement
  • Source

• The will is free; Strong is the soul, and wise, and beautiful; The seeds of god-like power are in us still; Gods are we, bards, saints, heroes, if we will!

  

  Matthew Arnold
  • God
  • Power
  • Beautiful

• Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to me to be empty and devoid of meaning.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Experiences
  • Empty
  • Impressions

• The twentieth century ended with its dreams in ruins. The notion of the community as a voluntary association of enlightened citizens has died forever. We realize how suffocatingly humane we've become, dedicated to moderation and the middle way. The suburbanization of the soul has overrun our planet like the plague.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Dream
  • Community
  • Forever

• In so far as the soul is a force residing in the body; it has therefore been said that the properties of the soul depend of the condition of the body.

  

  Maimonides
  • Soul

• Sympathy is a shallow stream in the souls of those who have not suffered.

  

  W. Sangster
  • Sympathy
  • Shallow
  • Helping Others

• Then with no throbs of fiery pain,No cold gradations of decay,Death broke at once the vital chain,And freed his soul the nearest way.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Death
  • Pain
  • Cold

• There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done." All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. Those who knock it is opened.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • God
  • Done

• Lightness, jesting, and joking, can only be indulged at the expense of barrenness of soul, and the loss of the favor of God.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • God
  • Soul

• Your life, your soul, your world. They cannot kill it. Look at me, I’ve died but I opened my eyes again.

  

  Tablo
  • Life
  • World
  • Eyes

• We live by faith in a prayer-hearing, soul-converting , soul-sanctifyin g, soul-restoring, soul-comforting God.

  

  Francis Asbury
  • Prayer
  • Hearing
  • Comforting

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