Quotes about Soul

Being is the soul of every concept, of every judgment and of every reasoning.

The crisis in their souls begins at the moment when they either recognize that they have tremendous potentialities not yet exercised or begin to yearn for a religious life which will make greater demands on them. Up to that moment of crisis, they have lived on the surface of their souls. The tension deepens as they realize that, like a plant, they have roots which need greater spiritual depths and branches meant for communion with the heavens above.

Under the guidance of the Spirit every trial enriches the soul... He best heals wounds who has felt a similar wound.

Peace also implies order, the subordination of the body to the soul, of the senses to reason, and of the creature to the Creator.

One cannot tell when grace is coming or how it will work on the soul; whether it will come as a result of a disgust with sin.

Why repentance? Because it is the first act of a soul which turns back to God, the first stroke that severs sin from the heart.

The soul that hated truth (to speak in inadequate human terms) would suffer more in heaven than in hell; analogically speaking, the want of the Spirit of Christ makes us shrink from His companionship.

The more rich a soul is on the inside, the less need it has of luxuries on the outside.

It was only after Adam and Eve had by sin lost the inner effulgence of grace that they became conscious of the fact that they were naked. They felt the need for clothes to cover their newfound shame; previously their bodies had Glowed with a man mantle of charity woven by the fingers of God. It is almost universally true that excessive external display betrays an inner poverty and nakedness of the soul.

If sex does not mount to heaven, it descends into hell. There is no such thing as giving the body without giving the soul.

God writes His name on the soul of every man. Reason and conscience are the God within us in the natural order.

Joy never comes to those who seek it. In the self-forgetting hour when we are touched by another's need and sacrifice for it, we suddenly find our soul aflame with glorious joy.