My Soul Quotes - Page 17

• Great God, what do I see and hear!
  The end of things created!
  The judge of mankind doth appear
  On clouds of glory seated!
  The trumpet sounds; the graves restore,
  The dead which they contained before;
  Prepare, my soul, to meet Him!

  Martin Luther

  Clouds, Judging, Soul

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• Poetry helps my soul escape its encasement.

  Maya Angelou

  Soul, Helping

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• The world has a thousand creeds, and never a one have I;
  Nor church of my own, though a million spires are pointing the way on high.
  But I float on the bosom of faith, that bears me along like a river;
  And the lamp of my soul is alight with love, for life, and the world, and the Giver.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Love Life, Rivers, Soul

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• I feel the flame of eternity in my soul.

  Helen Keller

  Flames, Soul, Eternity

  Helen Keller (2007). “My Religion”, p.27, Book Tree

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• In man or woman, but far most in man,
  And most of all in man that ministers,
  And serves the altar, in my soul I loathe
  All affectation. 'Tis my perfect scorn:
  Object of my implacable disgust.

  William Cowper

  Men, Perfect, Soul

  William Cowper (1853). “The Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life ; Six Engravings on Steel”, p.140

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• My soul is sick with every day's report of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled.

  William Cowper

  Sick, Soul, Earth

  William Cowper (1855). “Thoughts on War and Warriors; extracted from the poetical writings of William Cowper”, p.15

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• To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.

  Alexander Pope

  Soul, Shade, Paradise

  Alexander Pope (1751). “The works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements. Publ. by mr. Warburton. With occasional notes”, p.204

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• I b'lieve in religion, and one of these days, when I've got matters tight and snug, I calculates to tend to my soul.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Soul, Religion, Matter

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.63, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• What, my soul, was thy errand here?
  Was it mirth or ease,
  Or heaping up dust from year to year?
  "Nay, none of these!"
  Speak, soul, aright in His holy sight,
  Whose eye looks still
  And steadily on thee through the night;
  "To do His will!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Eye, Night, Sight

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.93

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• ... I've learned that I have many, many soul mates here, and they come to me at the right time and in the right place. They come to help me when I'm lost, and each comes with different sets of lessons for me -- usually, always, my most intense lessons -- the ones my soul came here to learn.

  Melody Beattie

  Soul, Different, Lessons

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• Even as the needle that directs the hour,
  (Touched with the loadstone) by the secret power
  Of hidden Nature, points upon the pole;
  Even so the wavering powers of my soul,
  Touch'd by the virtue of Thy spirit, flee
  From what is earth, and point alone to Thee.

  Francis Quarles

  Soul, Secret, Wavering

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• My soul, what's lighter than a feather? Wind.
  Than wind? The fire. And what than fire? The mind.
  What's lighter than the mind? A thought. Than thought?
  This bubble world. What than this bubble? Nought.

  Francis Quarles

  Fire, Wind, Soul

  Francis Quarles, William Walker Wilkins (1866). “Emblems, Divine and Moral: The School of the Heart ; And, Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man”, p.15

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• Teach me, O lark! with thee to greatly rise, to exalt my soul and lift it to the skies.

  Edmund Burke

  Sky, Soul, Larks

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence Of...Edmund Burke”, p.3

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• I want to save my soul, that timid wind.

  Susan Sontag

  Wind, Soul, Want

  Susan Sontag (2017). “Stories: Collected Stories”, p.230, Penguin UK

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• When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Money, Fear, War

  "The Crazy Ape: Written by a Biologist for the Young". Book by Albert Szent-Györgyi, 2014.

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• So far as I ever observed God's dealings with my soul, the flights of preachers sometimes entertained me, but it was Scripture expressions which did penetrate my heart, and in a way peculiar to themselves.

  John Brown

  Bible, Heart, Expression

  John Brown (1797). “The posthumous works of the late Rev. Mr. John Brown, minister of the Gospel at Haddington: with short memoirs, and a summary of what he uttered in his last illness”, p.20

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• For me, creativity is essentially a spiritual experience, a conversation between my soul and me.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Spiritual, Creativity, Soul

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• Almighty Power, by whose most wise command, helpless, forlorn, uncertain, here I stand, take this faint glimmer of thyself away, or break into my soul with perfect day!

  John Arbuthnot

  Wise, Prayer, Perfect Days

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• A few more years shall roll,
  A few more seasons come;
  And we shall be with those that rest,
  Asleep within the tomb.
  A few more storms shall beat
  On this wild rocky shore;
  And we shall be where tempests cease,
  And surges swell no more.
  A few more struggles here,
  A few more partings o'er,
  A few more toils, a few more tears,
  And we shall weep no more.
  Then, O my Lord, prepare
  My soul for that blest day;
  Oh, wash me in Thy precious blood,
  And take my sins away.

  Horatius Bonar

  Struggle, Blood, Years

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• I do isometrics in church so while I'm doing my soul some good, I'm doing my body some good, too.

  Grace Kelly

  Soul, Church, Body

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• Pity's akin to love; and every thought
  Of that soft kind is welcome to my soul.

  Thomas Southerne

  Soul, Welcome, Kind

  John Bell, Joseph Addison, Michael Arne, John Banks, John Brown (1792). “British Theatre: Isabella, or, The fatal marriage”

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• I am the master! I stretch forth my hands, even to the skies! I lay my hands upon the stars, as on the crystal wheels of the harmonica. Now fast, now slow, as my soul wills, I turn the stars. I weave them into rainbows, harmonies. I feel immortality! I create immortality!

  Adam Mickiewicz

  Stars, Hands, Sky

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• Now my soul is incarnate in my country,
  My body has swallowed her soul,
  And I and my country are one.
  My name is million, for I love and suffer for millions.

  Adam Mickiewicz

  Country, Names, Soul

  Adam Mickiewicz, Louise Varèse (1956). “The great improvisation”

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• My soul is a canvas stretched across four wooden corners and tacked with copper nails that sink into the edges of timber like teeth. My art is nothing less than my salvation.

  Keariene Muizz

  Art, Soul, Teeth

  New York Arts Magazine, December 2008.

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• I have brightness in my soul, which strains toward Heaven. I am like a bird!

  Jenny Lind

  Bird, Heaven, Soul

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