John Lancaster Spalding Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Light, Soul, Matter

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

• Be watchful lest thou lose the power of desiring and loving what appeals to the soul this is the miser's curse this the chain and ball the sensualist drags.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Soul, Balls, Chains

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

• The first requisite of a gentleman is to be true, brave and noble, and to be therefore a rebuke and scandal to venal and vulgar souls.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Brave, Soul, Gentleman

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

• Language should be pure, noble and graceful, as the body should be so: for both are vestures of the Soul.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Soul, Noble, Body

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

• We have no sympathy with those who are controlled by ideas and passions which we neither understand nor feel. Thus they who live to satisfy the appetites do not believe it possible to live in and for the soul.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Believe, Passion, Ideas

  "Aphorisms and Reflections" by John Lancaster Spalding, (pp. 239-240), 1901.

• We may avoid much disappointment and bitterness of soul by learning to understand how little necessary to our joy and peace are the things the multitude most desire and seek.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Disappointment, Joy, Soul

  "Aphorisms and Reflections" by John Lancaster Spalding, (pp. 129-130), 1901.

• States of soul rightly expressed, as the poet expresses them in moments of pure inspiration, retain forever the power of creating like states. It is this that makes genuine literature a vital force.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Inspiration, Creating, Forever

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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