Quotes about Soul
Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.
— Ann Voskamp
The grace that does not change my life will not save my soul.
— Charles Spurgeon
If we could see that everything, even tragedy, is a gift in diguise, we would then find the best way to nourish the soul.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
The soul is like an uninhabited world that comes to life only when God lays His head against us.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
To have faith in the Word, Scripture must not grasp us in our critical thought, but in the life of the soul.
— Abraham Kuyper
Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'tis all that I implore: In life and death a chainless soul, with courage to endure.
— Emily Bronte
Words lead to deeds, they prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.
— Mother Teresa
My brethren, the reason why you have not got contentment in the things of the world is not because you have not got enough of them-that is not the reason-but the reason is, because they are not things proportionable to that immortal soul of yours that is capable of God himself.
— Jeremiah Burroughs
There is a Heaven within the souls of the saints-that is a certain truth; no soul shall ever come to Heaven, but the soul which has Heaven come to it first. When you die, you hope you will go to Heaven; but if you will go to Heaven when you die, Heaven will come to you before you die. Now this is a great mystery, to have the Kingdom of Heaven in the soul; no man can know this but that soul which has it.
— Jeremiah Burroughs
Contentment is an inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit-the whole soul, judgment, thoughts, will, affections and all are satisfied and quiet.
— Jeremiah Burroughs
And the truth is, I know nothing more effective for quieting a Christian soul and getting contentment than this, setting your heart to work in the duties of the immediate circumstances that you are now in, and taking heed of your thoughts about other conditions as a mere temptation.
— Jeremiah Burroughs
I do not ask for grace of style, I look for purity of soul: for with Christians it is the greatest of solecisms and of vices of style to introduce anything base either in word or action.
— Jerome