SOUL QUOTES V

quotations about the soul

It is only God who can satisfy the soul.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Every soul is a battlefield.

LYMAN ABBOTT

Problems of Life: Selections from the Writings of Rev. Lyman Abbott

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I do not mean that the soul is air, as has been supposed by some who could not conceive a spiritual nature; but, with much dissimilarity, the two things have a kind of likeness, which makes it suitable to say that the immaterial soul is illumined with the immaterial light of the simple wisdom of God, as the material air is irradiated with material light, and that, as the air, when deprived of this light, grows dark, (for material darkness is nothing else than air wanting light,) so the soul, deprived of the light of wisdom, grows dark.

ST. AUGUSTINE

The City of God

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Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney and then go on their way.

VINCENT VAN GOGH

letter, June 1880

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Life, with the Soul predominant,
Is a noble mosaic, a bewitching arabesque.

EDWIN LEIBFREED

"The Song of the Soul"


The soul is healed by being with children.

FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY

The Idiot

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The soul is often hungrier than the body, and no shops can sell it food.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


I was brought up on a side street, listen now
I learned how to love before I could eat
I was educated from good stock
When I start lovin', oh, I can't stop
I'm a soul man, I'm a soul man

ISAAC HAYES & DAVID PORTER

"Soul Man"


The body is our dwelling-place, and the soul the immortal guest which lodges there.

MENCIUS

attributed, Day's Collacon


The history of a man's soul, even the pettiest soul, is hardly less interesting and useful than the history of a whole people; especially when the former is the result of the observations of a mature mind upon itself, and has been written without any egotistical desire of arousing sympathy or astonishment.

MIKHAIL LERMONTOV

A Hero of Our Time


The soul of Man must quicken to creation.

T. S. ELIOT

The Rock

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Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to me to be empty and devoid of meaning.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

attributed, Albert Einstein: The Human Side

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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

EDGAR ALLAN POE

"The Philosophy of Composition", The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 3

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We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body.

PAULO COELHO

The Pilgrimage


The soul is the connecting link between God and man, and between the spirit and the flesh, and has its earthly abode in the blood or life.

VAN BRUNT WYCKOFF

attributed, Day's Collacon


Trouble is, most times, when you go looking to sell your soul, nobody's buying.

CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE

Radiance


The soul, then, lives by God when it lives well, for it cannot live well unless by God working in it what is good; and the body lives by the soul when the soul lives in the body, whether itself be living by God or no. For the wicked man's life in the body is a life not of the soul, but of the body.

ST. AUGUSTINE

The City of God

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There is one argument commonly employed for the immateriality of the soul, which seems to me remarkable. Whatever is extended consists of parts; and whatever consists of parts is divisible, if not in reality, at least in the imagination. But it is impossible anything divisible can be conjoined to a thought or perception, which is a being altogether inseparable and indivisible. For supposing such a conjunction, would the indivisible thought exist on the left or on the right hand of this extended divisible body? On the surface or in the middle? On the back or fore side of it? If it be conjoined with the extension, it must exist somewhere within its dimensions. If it exist within its dimensions, it must either exist in one particular part; and then that particular part is indivisible, and the perception is conjoined only with it, not with the extension: Or if the thought exists in every part, it must also be extended, and separable, and divisible, as well as the body; which is utterly absurd and contradictory. For can any one conceive a passion of a yard in length, a foot in breadth, and an inch in thickness? Thought, therefore, and extension are qualities wholly incompatible, and never can incorporate together into one subject.

DAVID HUME

"Of the Immateriality of the Soul", A Treatise of Human Nature

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Feeble souls are like those tracks of land which have neither depth nor richness of soil.

DAVID THOMAS

The Homilist


The fire that burns in the soul is of the same essential nature as the stars.

GEORG LUKACS

attributed, "Can Poetry Change Your Life?", The New Yorker, July 31, 2017