Quotes about Soul

learn Christ, is to believe in him; "my Lord, and my God,"Jno. 20. 28 when we do not only believe God, but in God, which is the actual application of Christ to ourselves, and as it were the spreading of the sacred medicine of his blood upon our souls.

Prayer is the spiritual pulse of the soul, by which it beats strongly after God.

Sin is not only a defection—but a pollution. It is to the soul as rust is to gold, as a stain to beauty. It makes the soul red with guilt, and black with filth. Sin in Scripture is compared to a "menstruous cloth," and to a "plague-sore.

All the legal washings and purifications were but types and emblems representing Christ's blood. This blood whitens the black soul.

Make spending your time a matter of conscience. "Redeeming the time" (Eph. 5:16). Many people fool away their time, some in idle visits, others in recreations and pleasures which secretly bewitch the heart and take it away from better things. What are our golden hours for—but to attend to our souls? Time misspent is not time lived but time lost! Time is a precious commodity.

God made the world only as a dressing room to dress our souls in. He sent us here on the grand errand of godliness.

We may read many truths in the Bible, but we cannot know them savingly, till God by his Spirit shines upon our soul.

It is significant that the word "holiness" derives from a word meaning "wholeness" and the word "meditation," usually used in a religious sense, closely resembles the root meaning of the word "medication." The affinity of the two words is startlingly evident when we realize that sincere and practical meditation upon God and His truth acts as a medication for the soul and body.

Emerson said, "The soul contains the event that shall befall it.

What is the soul? Indie Arie: The real you. You do not have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.

To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.