George Herbert Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear. Dare to look in thy chest; for 'Tis thine own: And tumble up and down what thou findst there. Who cannot rest till he good fellows find, he breaks up house, turns out of doors his mind.

  George Herbert

  Mean, Doors, House

  George Herbert (1861). “The poetical works of George Herbert and Reginald Heber: With memoirs. Eight engravings on steel”, p.7

• By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear.

  George Herbert

  Mean, Meditation, Soul

  "The poetical works of George Herbert and Reginald Heber: With memoirs. Eight engravings on steel".

• Never was a miser a brave soul.

  George Herbert

  Bravery, Soul, Literature

• Love bade me welcome, but my soul drew back.

  George Herbert

  Sad, Soul, Welcome

• Church bells beyond the stars heard, the soul's blood, The land of spices; something understood.

  George Herbert

  Stars, Church Bells, Blood

  'Prayer: Prayer the Church's banquet' (1633)

• Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse thy soul; mark the decay And growth of it; if, with thy watch, that too Be down then winde up both; since we shall be Most surely judg'd, make thy accounts agree.

  George Herbert

  Morning, Night, Soul

  George Herbert (1861). “The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir”, p.16

• Corn is cleaned with wind, and the Soul with chastening

  George Herbert

  Wind, Soul, Affliction

  George Herbert (1857). “Works: In Prose & Verse”, p.306

• Sorrow was all my soul; I scarce believed, Till grief did tell me roundly, that I lived.

  George Herbert

  Grief, Soul, Sorrow

  Affliction (1)', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously, 1633).

• Only a sweet and virtuous soul,
  Like season'd timbered, never gives;
  But though the whole world turn to coal,
  Then chiefly lives.

  George Herbert

  Sweet, Giving, Soul

  'Outlandish Proverbs' (1640) no. 420

• The fineness which a hymn or psalm affords
  If when the soul unto the lines accords.

  George Herbert

  Hymns, Soul, Lines

  "A True Hymn". "The Temple". Book by George Herbert, 1633.

• Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.

  George Herbert

  Sweet, Giving, Soul

  'Outlandish Proverbs' (1640) no. 420

• God's breath in man returning to his birth, The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage.

  George Herbert

  Heart, Men, Soul

  Marianne Dorman, George Herbert (2009). “Seven Whole Days to Praise Our God: An Arrangement of George Herbert's Poems for Christian Meditation”, p.48, AuthorHouse

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