"A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student."
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"Our soul should be a mirror of Christ; we should reflect every feature: for every grace in Christ there should be a counterpart in us."
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"I see myself living by correct principles and accomplishing worthy purposes. One of my favorite quotes is, "The greatest battles of life are fought out every day in the silent chambers of one's own soul." (David O. McKay)."
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"Without story books is like a person with no soul."
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"I've put men to death-men with supposedly immortal souls-that looked dumber than that mouse"
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"People like the way dreams have of sticking to the soul."
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"Marriage emerged some forty-five hundred years ago and evolved into a widespread and accepted institution that bonded families, maintained order, and created wealth. Unlike today, where many of us are searching for our romantic "soul mate," marriage was originally more about economics than deep emotion."
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"This position I've held ... it pays may way and it corrodes my soul."
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"Oh Lion in a peculiar guise, Sharp Roman road to Paradise, Come eat me up, I'll pay thy toll With all my flesh, and keep my soul."
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"As you gain elevation [on the mountain] your IQ goes down - but your emotional affect goes up, which is great for having a mythic experience, whether you want to or not."
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"The Bible can touch our hearts, order our minds, refresh our souls."
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"I want to save my soul, that timid wind."
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"This attachment of Love to God is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages."
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"Books never make religions, but religions make books. We must not forget that. No book ever created God, but God inspired all the great books. And no book ever created a soul."
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"Come out into the broad light of day, come out from the little narrow paths, for how can the infinite soul rest content to live and die in small ruts?"
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"According to us, there are three things in the makeup of man. There is the body, there is the mind, and there is the soul."
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"Jiva (individual soul) is the conscious ruler of this body, in whom the five life principles come into unity, and yet that very Jiva is the Atman, because all is Atman."
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"[Not parroting.] My old Master used to say, "It is all very good to teach the parrot to say, 'Lord, Lord, Lord' all the time; but let the cat come and take hold of its neck, it forgets all about it" [You may] pray all the time, read all the scriptures in the world, and worship all the gods there are, [but] unless you realise the soul there is no freedom. Not talking, theorising, argumentation, but realisation. That I call practical religion."
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"Anything that is in space has form. Space itself has form. Either you are in space, or space is in you. The soul is beyond all space. Space is in the soul, not the soul in space."
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"Man is not mind, he is soul."
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