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"I have a good memory. But I would be interested in memory even if I had a bad memory, because I believe that memory is our soul. If we lose our memory completely, we are without a soul."
"In the airport, luggage-laden people rush hither and yon through endless corridors, like souls to each of whom the devil has furnished a different, inaccurate map of the escape route from hell."
"The soul of Man must quicken to creation."
"When the Stranger says: "What is the meaning of this city? Do you huddle close together because you love each other?" What will you answer? "We all dwell together To make money from each other"? or "This is a community"? Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger. Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions."
"When I seek you, my God, I seek a blessed life. I shall seek you, so that my soul may live."
"Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty."
"Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul."
"I beseech Thee, my God, I would fain know, if so Thou willest, for what purpose my baptism was then deferred? was it for my good that the rein was laid loose, as it were, upon me, for me to sin? or was it not laid loose? If not, why does it still echo in our ears on all sides, "Let him alone, let him do as he will, for he is not yet baptised?" but as to bodily health, no one says, "Let him be worse wounded, for he is not yet healed." How much better then, had I been at once healed; and then, by my friends' diligence and my own, my soul's recovered health had been kept safe in Thy keeping who gavest it."
"Thus the good christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make false prophecies, however much they may in fact speak the truth; lest, being in league with the devil, they may deceive errant souls into making common cause."
"for we women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself."
"The world speaks to me in colors, my soul answers in music."
"In no other action can our Savior be considered more tender or more loving than in this, in which He, as it were, annihilates Himself and reduces Himself to food, that He may penetrate our souls and unite Himself to the hearts of His faithful."
"I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls."
"Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls."
"What is this love that more than all the cursed deadly or any other of its great movers so moves the soul and soul what is this soul that more than by any of its great movers is by love so moved?"
"We must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul."
"The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose."
"The world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh."
"He who would be a great soul in the future, must be a great soul now."
"The Oversoul is before Time, and Time, Father of all else, is one of his children."
