We need worship for our spirit, fellowship for our soul and committed subservience for our body.
~By Larry Norman ~
I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.
~By Jewel ~
Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.
~By Antoine Rivarol ~
To buy happiness is to sell soul.
~By Douglas Horton ~
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
~By Victor Hugo ~
Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.
~By Marian Wright Edelman ~
Fashion is so close in revealing a person's inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay claim to vanity so people tend to push it away. It's really too close to the quick of the soul.
~By Stella Blum ~
The soul is healed by being with children.
~By Fyodor Dostoevsky ~
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress.
~By William Butler Yeats ~
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul possesses everything by grace which God possesses by nature.
~By Johannes Tauler ~
There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.
~By Allan Bloom ~
When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.
~By Flannery O'Connor ~
Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.
~By Franz Kafka ~
It's more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.
~By Pat Metheny ~
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
~By Muhammed Iqbal ~
Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.
~By Oliver Joseph Lodge ~
Be honest with yourself and the way you act when you hear music. That way, when people watch, they'll see something from your heart and soul, and as a result will communicate your feeling and thought much better.
~By Billy Sheehan ~
War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.
~By Oriana Fallaci ~
Often and often must he have thought, that, to be or not to be forever, was a question, which must be settled; as it is the foundation, and the only foundation upon which we feel that there can rest one thought, one feeling, or one purpose worthy of a human soul.
~By Jones Very ~
Live your life fom your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people's souls.
~By Melody Beattie ~
I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.
~By John Lennon ~
Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.
~By Walt Whitman ~
But is not He who created it for the sake of the sick body more than the remedy? And is not He who cures the soul, which is more than the body, greater?
~By Paracelsus ~
Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body.
~By Muhammed Iqbal ~
Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with their richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.
~By William Gurnall ~
In my book, I was trying to get into my own soul.
~By Claire Bloom ~
I'll fill those canyons in your soul, like a river lead you home. And I'll walk a step behind, in the shadows so you shine. Just ask, it will be done and I will prove my love, until you're sure that I'm the one.
~By Gary Allan ~
Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.
~By Francois Fenelon ~
If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.
~By Kurt Cobain ~
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
~By Edgar Allan Poe ~
Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single.
~By Alice Cary ~
I've always been a big fan of the American soul sound.
~By Jose Carreras ~
If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.
~By Oswald Spengler ~
But remember, I am no politician, and no seer into souls.
~By Rebecca H. Davis ~
The damage done to this country by its own misconduct in the last few months and years, to its very heart and soul, is far greater and longer lasting than any damage that any terrorist could possibly inflict upon us.
~By Theodore C. Sorensen ~
I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.
~By Catherine II ~
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.
~By William Penn ~
We must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul.
~By Conor Oberst ~
Variety is the soul of pleasure.
~By Aphra Behn ~
The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.
~By Lord Jeffrey ~
The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.
~By George Sand ~
Well, we played with Soul Coughing once for like two days, that was pretty cool. I mean they were all good, you can pull a great experience from everything.
~By Mike Lowry ~
Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself.
~By Eugene Delacroix ~
I still feel like there are a lot of things in me that people haven't seen. My soul hasn't been bared yet.
~By Gedde Watanabe ~
We have mistaken the nature of poverty, and thought it was economic poverty. No, it is poverty of soul, deprivation of God's recreating, loving peace.
~By Thomas R. Kelly ~
Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you to stop suffering.
~By Jane Roberts ~
I'm extremely ambitious. I don't know why people are afraid to say that. I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad.
~By Jada Pinkett Smith ~
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
~By Democritus ~
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
~By George Santayana ~
If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.
~By Meister Eckhart ~
Will is the dynamic soul-force.
~By Albert Pike ~
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
~By Emma Goldman ~
I don't think I do have a soul.
~By Al Purdy ~
When something really comes from the soul, I think it has a truth that you cannot find in politics.
~By Frank Rich ~
Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.
~By Thomas Paine ~
For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?
~By Jesus Christ ~
What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room.
~By Ray Charles ~
Impropriety is the soul of wit.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.
~By Robert Redford ~
To be at one with God is to be at peace... peace is to be found only within, and unless one finds it there he will never find it at all. Peace lies not in the external world. It lies within one's own soul.
~By Ralph W. Trine ~
I just want to conquer people and their souls.
~By Mike Tyson ~
The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.
~By J. William Fulbright ~
You are the God-being that is here to create life, to breathe soul into your body, to walk this world as your own source of power, love, worth and life.
~By Joy Page ~
A decision once taken brings peace to a man's mind and eases his soul.
~By Mika Waltari ~
Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.
~By Epictetus ~
Though the body moves, the soul may stay behind.
~By Murasaki Shikibu ~
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
~By Aristotle ~
Every time your picture is taken, you lose a part of your soul.
~By Anna May Wong ~
Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
~By Henry Miller ~
We knew Chris Matthews had no shame. Now we also know the king of TV ghouls has no souls.
~By Michelle Malkin ~
You make sacrifices to become a mother, but you really find yourself and your soul.
~By Mariska Hargitay ~
O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.
~By Saint Teresa of Avila ~
The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.
~By Honore De Balzac ~
Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.
~By William Law ~
Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.
~By George A. Smith ~
Those children who are beaten will in turn give beatings, those who are intimidated will be intimidating, those who are humiliated will impose humiliation, and those whose souls are murdered will murder.
~By Alice Miller ~
Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.
~By David O. McKay ~
Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.
~By Nnamdi Azikiwe ~
Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.
~By Alfred A. Montapert ~
It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.
~By Pope John Paul II ~
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
~By George Eliot ~
Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses to the body, inasmuch as the body of the man is capable of the same obedience to the will of God as the soul.
~By William Ames ~
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
~By Lao Tzu ~
Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.
~By Ezra Taft Benson ~
Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.
~By Barbara Hershey ~
The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
~By Anatole France ~
I will devote my body and soul to the service of the people and the nation.
~By Norodom Sihamoni ~
Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
~By Logan P. Smith ~
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
~By Berthold Auerbach ~
A puny body weakens the soul.
~By Paul Cezanne ~
Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing.
~By Torquato Tasso ~
I am a good Protestant, and in the full sense of the term, for from the bottom of my soul, I protest against everything that is said, and everything that is done.
~By Pierre Bayle ~
Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.
~By Agatha Christie ~
The soul... may have many symbols with which it reaches toward God.
~By Anya Seton ~
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