The human soul is like a bird that is born in a cage. Nothing can deprive it of its natural longings, or obliterate the mysterious remembrance of its heritage.
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
I am convinced that the deepest desire within each of us is to be liberated from the controlling influences of our own psychic madness or patterns of fear. All other things—the disdain of ordinary life, the need to control others rather than be controlled, the craving for material goods as a means of security and protection against the winds of chaos—are external props that serve as substitutes for the real battle, which is the one waged within the individual soul.
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
Death only this mysterious truth unfolds, The mighty soul how small a body holds.
Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
The soul may be compared to a field of battle, where the armies are ready every moment to encounter. Not a single vice but has a more powerful opponent, and not one virtue but may be overborne by a combination of vices.
I am positive I have a soul; nor can all the books with which materialists have pestered the world ever convince me to the contrary.
The saddest of all failures is that of a soul, with its capabilities and possibilities, failing of life everlasting, and entering upon that night of death upon which morning never dawns.
Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Prayer is the oxygen of the soul.
The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see. I sought my God, but my God eluded me. I sought my brother and I found all three.
It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
When you are filled with soul energy you become magnetic.
Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.
What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?
Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.
Do not try to approach God with your thinking mind. It may only stimulate your intellectual ideas, activities, and beliefs. Try to approach God with your crying heart. It will awaken your soulful, spiritual consciousness.
If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.
There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.
A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
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