Mortification is the soul's vigorous opposition to self, wherein sincerity is most evident.
Happy is the moment we sit together, with two forms, with two faces, yet one soul. You and I.
When the Stranger says: "What is the meaning of this city? Do you huddle close together because you love each other?" What will you answer? "We all dwell together To make money from each other"? or "This is a community"? Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger. Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions.
Somewhere there must one Made for this soul, to move it.
I use everything that I pick up in my memory, and everything that vibrates in my soul.
What do we want? What would we be at? What do our souls desire? Is it not that we might have a more full, clear, stable comprehension of the wisdom, love, grace, goodness, holiness, righteousness, and power of God, as declared and exalted in Christ unto our redemption and eternal salvation?
The soul, like the body, acquires vigor by the exercise of all its faculties. In the midst of the world, in overcoming difficulties, in conquering selfishness, indolence, and fear--in all the occasions of duty, it employs, and reveals by employing, energies that render it efficient and robust--that broaden its scope, adjust its powers, and mature it with a rich experience.
ROMEO There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murders in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell. I sell thee poison; thou hast sold me none. Farewell: buy food, and get thyself in flesh. Come, cordial and not poison, go with me To Juliet's grave; for there must I use thee.
We have killed our souls with comfort instead of seeking fulfillment and achievement.
Slavery is the ultimate and greatest evil. For it is based on a denial of the dignity of the human soul.
Be dead in life, and you will not live in death. Let your soul die strenuously, and not live in weakness. Not only those who suffer death for the sake of faith in Christ are martyrs; but also those who die because of their observance of His commandments.
Anticipation was the soul of enjoyment.
In man's life, time is but a moment; being, a flux; sense is dim; the material frame corruptible; soul, an eddy of breath; fortune a thing inscrutable, and fame precarious.
Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul.
But he cannot see a connection between the end of yearning and the end of poetry. Is that what growing up amounts to: growing out of yearning, of passion, of all intensities of the soul?
Dancing's part of my soul. I enjoy it, it makes people happy, and it makes me happy.
In the midst of regular life, running is the touchstone that breathes adventure into my soul.
It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.
It is better to start over than to continue down a path that you know is wrong for your Soul.
I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.