What do I have to say to the universe? A soul ought to have something to say to the universe if it's going to be immortal.

That prose is a verse, and verse is a prose; convincing all, by demonstrating plain – poetic souls delight in prose insane

According to us, there are three things in the makeup of man. There is the body, there is the mind, and there is the soul.

The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.

And each day brings it's pretty dust, Our soon-choked souls to fll And we forget because we must, And not because we will.

It's not so simple to just walk into the desert and cleanse your soul like some new age, snap your fingers, it's all done.

Because to confide a part of your soul to something that can think and move for itself is obviously a very risky business.

In point of fact I was a perfectly devoted and dutiful little Catholic—until the day I learned that animals have no souls.

The use of soul-force for turning stones into bread would have been considered, as it is still considered, as black magic.

Deceit is a kind of garment that conceals the soul. It might even be compared to a whole wardrobe, so many are its guises.

That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect.

It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived.

Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity.

It does not matter what the whip is; it is none the less a whip, because you have cut thongs for it out of your own souls.

It will be as well, I think, to explain these locutions of God, and to describe what the soul feels when it receives them.

Nothing is greater than to break the chains from the bodies of men, nothing nobler than to destroy the phantom of the soul.

Sometimes you have to be a bad person to save yourself, and it takes a little chunk out of your soul, but you do it anyway.

The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity: with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.

O it's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Tommy 'ow's your soul/But it's thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll.

I would love to put out music that was just stunning or soul-baring or whatever. But I don't think I have the voice for it.

Surfing frees everything up. It's just the best soul fix. Life should be stress free, and that's what surfing is all about.

Back home in South Carolina, you have a lot of little soul food restaurants you can run to and get some quick, decent food.

The cry of the oppressed has entered not only into my ears, but into my soul, so that while I live, I cannot hold my peace.

Cats are like donkeys and camels, they won't ever quite give in to human tyranny, they won't try to imitate the human soul.

Love masters agony; the soul that seemed Forsaken feels her present God again And in her Father's arms Contented dies away.

Just as you ought not to attempt to cure eyes without head or head without body, so you should not treat body without soul.

The soul is a living, dynamic part of each person. It exists as consciousness and therefore must be found in consciousness.

Money is like any other virus: once it has rotted the soul of the person who houses it, it sets off in search of new blood.

What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul.

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.

A sense of wrongness, of fraught unease, as if long nails scraped the surface of the moon, raising the hackles of the soul.

The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to forget them.

The trees encountered on a country stroll Reveal a lot about that country's soul ... A culture is no better than its woods.

My soul is always lifted up, and my spirit cheered and comforted, when I hear good music. I rejoice in it very much indeed.

Do not make the mistake of thinking that the soul is inside you, because if the soul is inside you, you will be outside it.

Live in the world as if only God and your soul were in it; then your heart will never be made captive by any earthly thing.

A life with difficult relationships, filled with obstacles and losses, presents the most opportunity for the soul's growth.

I have a calling in my soul, if you like, to try to make my life in some way worthwhile. What is the value of my existence?

You are as prone to love as the sun is to shine; it being the most delightful and natural employment of the soul of humans.

You know the value of every article of merchandise, but if you don't know the value of your own soul, it's all foolishness.

That we should feed and nourish our souls with high notions of GOD; which would yield us great joy in being devoted to Him.

What matters is a good person, a good soul, someone who genuinely gives good attention to the relationships in their lives.

The peace of the world concerns only body and time but the peace, the joy, that Christ gives enriches the soul for eternity

It is our first duty to serve society, and after we have done that, we may attend wholly to the salvation of our own souls.

If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.

The body apologizes to the soul for its errors, and the soul asks forgiveness for squatting in the body without invitation.

In a word, poetry can not exist without emotion, or, if you will, without a movement of the soul which regulates the words.

Every fallen woman represents a man as guilty as herself, who escapes human detection, but whose soul lies open before God.

That soul is dead to which the Spirit of Christ is not given in the work of regeneration; and all its works are dead works.

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