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A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.
Sometimes, we need to be strangers to ourselves. Then the hidden light in our soul will illuminate what we need to see.
Are science and religion compatible? It's like, are science and plumbing compatible? They're just two different things.
A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.
For what is man's soul but a flame? It flickers in and around the body of a man as does the flame around the rough log.
It is not possible to achieve by vigilance in anger and revenge what the soul is longing for. The soul longs for peace.
The Glory of God, and, as our only means of glorifying Him, the salvation of human souls, is the real business of life.
John Matthew was her well of soul, as the symphaths called it,or her pyrocant, to the vampires. Her essential weakness.
The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
When a writer admits that he has an affection for something which he has written, it is high time to pray for his soul.
The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.
Dreams are only the image of outward things shown on an inward mirror. But the mirror is the soul's enclosing darkness.
Listen to your heart. It knows all things, because it came from the Soul of the World and it will one day return there.
Come over here so I can examine your face with my hands and see deeper into your soul than a sighted person ever could.
And you take care, too, Shahara. Remember the lies we tell ourselves to survive seldom bring peace to our souls. (Nero)
I'd like to point out to people the divine in a musical language that transcends words. I want to speak to their souls.
One can change the small minds, but it is tad difficult to do it with the small heart whose soul is in small mind only.
Having once been so high, humanity fell so low. What had once been dedicated to the soul was now dedicated to the sale.
Both poverty and wealth are excellent things, because they are extremes, but the middle ground is damaging to the soul.
I grew in the inner city, listening to Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, James Brown, The Commodores - lots of soul music.
Far too many husbands fail to recognize that what your wife wants and needs most from you is your concern for her soul.
Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.
We have divided the Virtues of the Soul into two groups, the Virtues of the Character and the Virtues of the Intellect.
It's something that I had been pushing down my whole life. The search for meaning, I guess, the whispering of the soul.
You have inherited (the) most from yourself, not from your family! The family is only a river through which Soul flows.
All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us; in other words, to engage us to obey.
If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.
Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.
Comedy [deals] with a lot of the same areas where our defenses are the strongest - race, religion, politics, sexuality.
If God is a reality, and the soul is a reality, and you are an immortal being, what are you doing with your Bible shut?
It is hypocrisy for man to make any other use of his religion, or the credit of it, than to sanctify and save his soul.
Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play.
...if our humanity - our soul as a society - is overtaken by the materiel and cosmetic, there will be no hope of peace.
O for ten years, that I may overwhelm / Myself in poesy; so I may do the deed / That my own soul has to itself decreed.
It is comforting to think that we can love so powerfully that fate itself wheels and turns at the command of our souls.
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
Resurrection does not simply spell the survival of the soul but requires the transformation of the world as we know it.
When people bother you in any way, it is because their souls are trying to get your divine attention and your blessing.
It is hard for the human soul not to love something, and our mind must of necessity be drawn to some kind of affection.
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
Stars open among the lilies. Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens? This is the silence of astounded souls.
As a dead man cannot inherit an estate, no more can a dead soul inherit heaven. The soul must be resurrected in Christ.
Sleep, rest of things, O pleasing Deity, Peace of the soul, which cares dost crucify, Weary bodies refresh and mollify.
And I want to rock your gypsy soul Just like way back in the days of old And magnificently we will fold into the mystic
A soul disengaged from the world is a heavenly one; and then are we ready for heaven when our heart is there before us.
When the soul wants to depend upon nothing, not even upon life, that is the height of philosophy, the height of manhood.
Each elect soul ... possesses God directly and finds in that unique possession the fulfillment of his own individuality.
I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth.
I can only stand to sit in front of my computer for three or four hours a day. Otherwise it can get really soul-sucking.
Keep your soul at peace, in order to be able to be attentive and very faithful to the inner movement of the Holy Spirit.