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"Oh, God, to know you is life. To serve You is freedom. To praise you is the soul's joy and delight. Guard me with the power of Your grace here and in all places. Now and at all times, forever. Amen."
"Purity of soul cannot be lost without consent."
"Love God and do whatever you please: for the soul trained in love to God will do nothing to offend the One who is Beloved."
"Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs."
"If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness."
"I have always been amazed at my contemporaries’ lack of finesse, I whose soul writhed from morning to night, in the mere quest of itself."
"The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit."
"Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul"
"The Soul rules over matter. Matter may pass away like a mote in the sunbeam, may be absorbed into the immensity of God, as a mistis absorbed into the heat of the Sun--but the soul is the kingdom of God, the abode of love, of truth, of virtue."
"The soul is not part of the incarnation. It comes into the incarnation. And the soul is not afraid of death because it has done it so many times."
"What church could compete with the fireworks of the pure soul?"
"I acknowledge that four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what our soul is."
"But if it's tolerable mediocrity, and you're like, 'Well, you know it could be worse. At least I'm getting paid.' Then you wind up in a job that is slowly killing your soul and you're allowing that to happen. Comfort can be a very, very dangerous thing."
"Just as you ought not to attempt to cure eyes without head or head without body, so you should not treat body without soul."
"I believe that there is a longing in my soul that searches the whole world."
"Satan and all his agents, with all their combined strength and subtilty, cannot separate one soul from Christ."
"America is the moral force that defeated communism and all those who would put the human soul itself into bondage."
"The soul has neither sex, nor caste nor imperfection."
"I grow silent. Dear soul, you speak."
"There is no worse sickness for the soul, o you who are proud, than this pretense of perfection."
