Liberated souls are a rare commodity in this world. They are no better; it's just you, a little later, in the next act or in the next play.
The stars are threshed, and the souls are threshed from their husks.
When we perfect 3-D copiers and they reproduce tissue, we'll have a million Marilyns walking around with no souls.
Transformationally motivated people are the growing edge of a great continuity of souls reaching back to the very earliest times.
I steal into their dreams," he said. "I steal into their most shameful thoughts, I'm in every shiver, every spasm of their souls, I steal into their hearts, I scrutinize their most fundamental beliefs, I scan their irrational impulses, their unspeakable emotions, I sleep in their lungs during the summer and their muscles during the winter, and all of this I do without the least effort, without intending to, without asking or seeking it out, without constraints, driven only by love and devotion.
The Church is or should go back to being a community of God's people, and priests, pastors and bishops, who have the care of souls, are at the service of the people of God.
Cranes carry this heavy mystical baggage. They're icons of fidelity and happiness. The Vietnamese believe cranes cart our souls up to heaven on our wings.
There are no unsavable souls.
These dear souls came not to Sabbath school because it was popular to do so, nor did I teach them because it was reputable to be thus engaged. Every moment they spent in that school, they were liable to be taken up, and given thirty-nine lashes. They came because they wished to learn. Their minds had been starved by their cruel masters. They had been shut up in mental darkness. I taught them, because it was the delight of my soul to be doing something that looked like the bettering the condition of my race
I have no desire to make windows into mens souls.
He draws us to Himself by grace, by example, by power, by lovingness, by beauty, by pardon, and above all by the Blessed Sacrament. Every one who has had anything to do with ministering to souls has seen the power which Jesus has. Talent is not needed. Eloquence is comparatively unattractive. Learning is often beside the mark. Controversy simply repels. . . All the attraction of the Church is in Jesus, and His chief attraction is the Blessed Sacrament
Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life. . . Most if not all of you have very deep ties with the land and with the people of Israel, as I do, for my Christian faith sprang from yours. . . . the Bible stories are woven into my childhood memories as the gallant struggle of modern Jews to be free of persecution is also woven into our souls.
I still believe that you truly find yourself not in travel, but in other human souls.
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
God is the ultimate judge of what is truly in our souls. But we are requiered to forgive everyone.
There are no twin souls in God's universe.
Who we shall become we are already in our souls.
It will do us little good to wire the world if we limit our vision. It will do us little good to wire the world if we short circuit our souls.
Consequently, the truth of God lives in our souls more by the power of superior moral courage than by the light of an eminent intelligence. Indeed, spiritual intelligence itself depends on the fortitude and patience with which we sacrifice ourselves for the truth, as it is communicated to our lives concretely in the providential will of God
They who pray not, know nothing of God, and know nothing of the state of their own souls.