Soul Quotes - Page 16

• All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, God, Nature

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 267

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• The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

  George Sand

  Beauty, Eye, Vision

  George Sand (1871). “Handsome Lawrence: A Sequel to A Rolling Stone”, p.30

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• I don't deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know because it hurts.

  Douglas Coupland

  Hurt, Philosophy, Religion

  Douglas Coupland (2011). “The Gum Thief: A Novel”, p.22, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Success, Spiritual, Love Yourself

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Ellen Carol DuBois (1992). “The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony reader: correspondence, writings, speeches”, Northeastern Univ Pr

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• But I have sometimes thought that a woman's nature is like a great house full of rooms: there is the hall, through which everyone passes in going in and out; the drawing-room, where one receives formal visits; the sitting-room, where the members of the family come and go as they list; but beyond that, far beyond, are other rooms, the handles of whose doors perhaps are never turned; no one knows the way to them, no one knows whither they lead; and in the innermost room, the holy of holies, the soul sits alone and waits for a footstep that never comes.

  Edith Wharton

  Doors, Drawing, House

  Edith Wharton (2016). “Early Short Stories: American Literature”, p.143, VM eBooks

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• Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.

  Thomas Moore

  Finding The One, World, Discovering

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

  George Herbert

  Mean, Meditation, Solitude

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

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• For our soul is so preciously loved of him that is highest, that it over-passeth the knowing of all creatures.

  Julian of Norwich

  Knowing, Creatures, Highest

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• The subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right touching by the Essence of all experience.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Light, Essence, Joy

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• Every action alters the soul of the doer.

  Oswald Spengler

  Spiritual, Doers, Action

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• Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Funny, People, Sells

  Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People"

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• "The love of God, unutterable and perfect, flows into a pure soul the way light rushes into a transparent object. The more love that it finds, the more it gives itself: so that, as we grow clear and open, the more complete the joy of heaven is. And the more souls who resonate together, the greater the intensity of their love, and, mirror like, each soul reflects the other.

  Dante Alighieri

  Spiritual, Mirrors, Light

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• No matter what happens around us, or to us, through love, our soul reaches immortality, conquering all dimensions and all destinies.

  Akiane Kramarik

  Destiny, Matter, Dimensions

  "Akiane Kramarik – Believe". Interview with Bobbi DePorter, healthywealthynwise.com.

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• Just as a mirror, which reflects all things, is set in its own container, so too the rational soul is placed in the fragile container of the body. In this way, the body is governed in its earthly life by the soul, and the soul contemplates heavenly things through faith.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Mirrors, Body, Way

  Hildegard of Bingen (1998). “The Letters of Hildegard of Bingen : Volume II”, p.22, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee! . . . . . . Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: So didst thou travel on life's common way In cheerful godliness.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Stars, Cheerful

  1802 'Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour', complete poem (published 1807).

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• Dear Night! this world's defeat; The stop to busy fools; care's check and curb; The day of spirits; my soul's calm retreat Which none disturb! Christ's progress, and His prayer-time; The hours to which high Heaven cloth chime.

  Henry Vaughan

  Prayer, Night, Heaven

  'The Night' l. 25 from 'Silex Scintillans' (1650-5)

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• My soul, the seas are rough, and thou a stranger In these false coasts; O keep aloof; there's danger; Cast forth thy plummet; see, a rock appears; Thy ships want sea-room; make it with thy tears.

  Francis Quarles

  Rocks, Sea, Tears

  Richard Crashaw, Francis Quarles, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of Richard Crashaw and Quarles' Emblems”, p.291

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• I have a soul that like an ample shield Can take in all, and verge enough for more.

  John Dryden

  Shields, Enough, Quiver

  John Dryden (1759). “Don Sebastian, King of Portugal, etc”, p.14

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• Awake my soul, and with the sun Thy daily stage of duty run.

  Thomas Ken

  Running, Sun, Stage

  'Morning Hymn' in Winchester College 'Manual of Prayers' (1695) but in use before 1674

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• You cannot buy loyalty; you cannot buy the devotion of hearts, minds, and souls. You have to earn these things.

  Clarence Francis

  Loyalty, Heart, Mind

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• The soul is a temple; and God is silently building it by night and by day. Precious thoughts are building it; disinterested love is building it; all-penetrating faith is building it.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Night, Love Is, Temples

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1872). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”

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• There are some men's souls that are so thin, so almost destitute of what is the true idea of soul, that were not the guardian angels so keen-sighted, they would altogether overlook them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Angel, Men, Ideas

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.210

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• Not all the subtilties of metaphysics can make me doubt a moment of the immortality of the soul, and of a beneficent Providence. I feel it, I believe it, I desire it, I hope it, and will defend it to my last breath.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Believe, Doubt, Desire

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• Making one object, in outward or inward nature, more holy to a single heart is reward enough for a life; for the more sympathies we gain or awaken for what is beautiful, by so much deeper will be our sympathy for that which is most beautiful,--the human soul!

  James Russell Lowell

  Beautiful, Heart, Inward

  James Russell Lowell (1844). “Poems”

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• The soul, considered with its Creator, is like one of those mathematical lines that may draw nearer to another for all eternity without a possibility of touching it; and can there be a thought so transporting as to consider ourselves in these perpetual approaches to Him, who is not only the standard of perfection, but of happiness?

  Joseph Addison

  Perfection, Touching, Lines

  Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.52

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