Truly Jesus is the great need of our souls.
Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the former forbids us to leave anything unresolved and undecided.
There are two births: the one when light, First strikes the new awakened sense; The other when two souls unite, And we must count our life from thence, When you loved me and I loved you, Then both of us were born anew.
Kind souls, you wonder why, love you, When you, you wonder why, love none We love, Fool, for the good we do, Not that which unto us is done!
They were the triumphant and insolent possessors; they had a hall, and a fire, and food and clothing and money, and so they might preach to hungry men, and the hungry men must be humble and listen. They were trying to save their souls- and who but a fool could fail to see that all that was the matter with their souls was that they had not managed to get a decent existence for their bodies?
God does not know whether a skin is black or white, He sees only souls.
Procrastination is the kidnapper of souls and the recruiting-officer of hell.
We must not lose hope. Hope is an anchor to the souls of men. Satan would have us cast away that anchor.
Foreigners have souls; the English haven't.
It is the only happy life to live for the salvation of souls.
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and turn back thy love upon their Maker; lest in these things which please thee, thou displease. If souls please thee, be they loved in God: for they too are mutable, but in Him they are firmly established.
Our souls need time to think, dream, and reflect.
Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
God is the ultimate judge of what is truly in our souls. But we are requiered to forgive everyone.
All empty souls tend to extreme opinion. It is only in those who have built up a rich world of memories and habits of thought that extreme opinions affront the sense of probability. Propositions, for instance, which set all the truth upon one side can only enter rich minds to dislocate and strain, if they can enter at all, and sooner or later the mind expels them by instinct.
To consider the matter aright, reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls, which carries us along a certain train of ideas, and endows them with particular qualities, according to their particular situations and relations. This instinct, 'tis true, arises from past observation and experience; but can anyone give the ultimate reason, why past experience and observation produces such an effect, any more than why nature alone should produce it?
Happy people are not their own enemies, do not carry on an endless war with their souls. We may be fiercely at odds with the wrongs of the world around us. But inside ourselves, near the core, if we are happy, we are at peace.
He pours light into our minds, arouses our desire and gives us strength. . . As the soul is the life of the body, so the Holy Spirit is the life of our souls.
Sin will usher in the greatest and the saddest losses that can be upon our souls.