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"So it follows that those who have reason have freedom to will or not to will, although this freedom is not equal in all of them. [...] human souls are more free when they persevere in the contemplation of the mind of God, less free when they descend to the corporeal, and even less free when they are entirely imprisoned in earthly flesh and blood."
"The abused children are alone with their suffering, not only within the family, but also within themselves. They cannot crate a place in their own soul where they could cry their beart out."
"When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul."
"Humility does not disturb or disquiet or agitate, however great it may be; it comes with peace, delight, and calm. . . . The pain of genuine humility doesn't agitate or afflict the soul; rather, this humility expands it and enables it to serve God more."
"The image of God always abides in the soul, whether this image be obsolete and clouded over as to amount to almost nothing; or whether it be obscured or disfigured, as is the case with sinners; or whether it be clear and beautiful as is the case with the just."
"Never underestimate how much assistance, how much satisfaction, how much comfort, how much soul and transcendence there might be in a well-made taco and a cold bottle of beer."
"Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place."
"My soul has grown deep like the rivers."
"To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul."
"Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees."
"Love is amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all."
"No matter what we weigh, those of us who are compulsive eaters have anorexia of the soul. We refuse to take in what sustains us. We live lives of deprivation. And when we can't stand it any longer, we binge."
"Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free."
"I want a soul mate who can sit me down, shut me up, tell me ten things I don't already know, and make me laugh. I don't care what you look like, just turn me on."
"Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further."
"He struggled with himself, too. I saw it -- I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself."
"How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?"
"Only in eternity shall we see the beauty of the soul, and only then shall we realize what great things were accomplished by interior suffering."
"Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies."
"Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow."
