"Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity"
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"Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!"
"By one hour's intimate access to the throne of grace, where the Lord causes His glory to pass before the soul that seeks Him you may acquire more true spiritual knowledge and comfort than a day's or a week's converse with the best of men, or the most."
"All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul."
"But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'Thou mayest."
"Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving natures."
"When your soul is resting, your emotions are okay, your mind is okay, and your will is at peace with God, not resisting what He's doing."
"The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet."
"I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine."
"I have had a thousand kisses, for which with my whole soul I thank love—but if you should deny me the thousand and first—‘t would put me to the proof how great a misery I could live through."
"Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one."
"Om is the bow, the arrow is soul."
"Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man."
"The soul can do without everything except the word of God, without which none at all of its wants are provided for."
"Antichrist is the pope and the Turk [Muslim] together. A beast full of life must have a body and soul. The spirit or soul of Antichrist is the pope, his flesh or body the Turk."
"Along with the differences that abide in each of us, there is also in each of us a maverick, the darling stubborn one who won't listen, who insists, who chooses preference or the spirited guess over yardsticks or even history. I suspect this maverick is somewhat what the soul is, or at least that the soul lives close by and companionably with its agitating and inquiring force."
"When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep"
"There is in the soul a something in which God dwells, and there is in the soul a something in which the soul dwells in God."
"Philosophers say the Soul is double-faced, her upper face gazes at God all the time and her lower face looks somewhat down, informing the senses; and the upper face, which is the summit of the soul, is in eternity and has nothing to do with time: it knows nothing of time or of body."
"There is something in the soul that is so akin to God that it is one with Him... It has nothing in common with anything created."