Soul Quotes

I know when I feel good when I play. There's a closeness with musicians you only get from playing live, even in the studio it's still playing live. For me, it's what expands my soul.

The humble soul is like the violet, which grows low, hangs the head downward, and hides itself with its own leaves.

Everything is emptiness. Everything else, accidental. Emptiness brings peace to your loving. Everything else, disease. In this world of trickery, emptiness is what your soul wants.

One day your heart will take you to your Lover. One day your soul will carry you to the Beloved. Don't get lost in your pain, know that one day your pain will become your cure.

There is no such thing as taking too much time, because your soul is in that picture.

If you excuse yourself in confession, you shut up sin within your soul, and shut out pardon.

Lost! Lost! Lost! Better a whole world on fire than a soul lost! Better every star quenched and the skies a wreck than a single soul to be lost!

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?

A church is a soul-saving company or it is nothing.

Let eloquence be flung to the dogs rather than souls be lost. What we want is to win souls. They are not won by flowery speeches.

One night alone in prayer might make us new men, changed from poverty of soul to spiritual wealth, from trembling to triumphing.

Hope, O my soul, hope. Watch carefully, for everything passes quickly, even though your impatience turns a very short time into a long one.

Color don't tell if people Black. It's the soul.

I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.

The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest.

We never know the timber of a man's soul until something cuts into him deeply and brings the grain out strong. You've the making of a mighty fine piece of furniture.

Saloons provide moments of genuine ecstasy - but only if your soul is at peace and the rest of your life bears contemplating. Otherwise, they are palaces of misery.

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.

Open thy gate of mercy, gracious God, My soul flies through these wounds to seek out thee.

The soldier's heart, the soldier's spirit, the soldier's soul, are everything.

I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all.

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

I believe that every man has in his soul a passion for treasure-hunting, which will often drive a coward into prodigies of valour.

The soul is not a soul, Has no secret, is small, and it fits Its hollow perfectly: its room, our moment of attention.

Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through.

Without will, without individuals, there are no heroes. But neither are there villains. And the absence of villains is as prostrating, as soul-destroying, as the absence of heroes.

The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and enjoy his imperishable possession: his soul.

In every grain of wheat there lies hidden the soul of a star.

Anything we take in the Universe, because it has in itself that which is All in All, includes in its own way, the entire soul of the world, which is entirely in any part of it.

God should be the object of all our desires, the end of all our actions, the principle of all our affections, and the governing power of our whole souls.

Meditation is a doorway to the soul.

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

We do not recognize our souls until they are in pain.

Pathology is not a problem to be solved, but the soul's way of working on itself.

A soul,--a spark of the never-dying flame that separates man from all the other beings of earth.

To philosophize man must put his whole soul into play, in much the same manner that to run he must use his heart and lungs.

Oh my poor soul, what is to become of you? - Where do you go?

Be aware that who you are and what you have to offer can be a beacon to some lost soul.

Oh, gentle feelings, soft sounds, the goodness and the gradual stilling of a soul that has been moved; the melting happiness of the first tender, touching joys of love- where are you?

I love soul. But I love a tune that has some meat in it. Something I could hang my hat on. Because music is universal.

Russian literature saved my soul. When I was a young girl in school and I asked what is good and what is evil, no one in that corrupt system could show me.

This society is not only to relieve the poor, but to save souls.

I believe ... that the soul of man is immortal and will be treated with justice in another life, respecting its conduct in this.

By science calmed, over the peaceful soul, Bright with eternal Wisdom's lucid ray, Peace, meek of eye, extends her soft control, And drives the puny Passions far away.

Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness with a laugh. Nothing is blessed forever.

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.

The soul on earth is an immortal guest.

The choice of every lost soul can be expressed in the words "Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven." There is always something they insist on keeping, even at the price of misery.

The Glory of God, and, as our only means of glorifying Him, the salvation of human souls, is the real business of life.

Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.