Quotes about Soul
then you obey my commandments, which I command you this day, that you love the Lord your God and serve Him with all your heart, and with all your soul:
— Thomas Merton
I have come to think that care of the soul requires a high degree of resistance to the culture around us, simply because that culture is dedicated to values that have no concern for the soul.
— Thomas Merton
I, who had always been anti-naturalistic in art, had been a pure naturalist in the moral order. No wonder my soul was sick and torn apart: but now the bleeding wound was drawn together by the notion of Christian virtue, ordered to the union of the soul with God.
— Thomas Merton
The central Jewish confession of faith is the Shema: "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength" (Deuteronomy 6:4—5).
— Kathie Lee Gifford
I often see it in people who have attained what the monastic tradition terms "detachment," an ability to live at peace with the reality of whatever happens. Such people do not have a closed-off air, nor a boastful demeanor. In them, it is clear, their wounds have opened the way to compassion for others. And compassion is the strength and soul of a religion.
— Kathleen Norris
God will keep you in perfect peace when your mind is anchored and stayed on Him, for He is the One who has all power to give peace of mind and peace of soul.
— Kathryn Kuhlman
You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
— CS Lewis
The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.
— CS Lewis
All good stories - stories that touch your soul, stories that change your nature, stories that cause you to become a better person from their telling - these stories always contain truth.
— Camron Wright
You are a slave of what you need in your soul.
— Carl Jung
No culture of the mind is enough to make a garden out of your soul.
— Carl Jung
Who at the present time thinks of Easter as intended and adapted to fill the soul with a new jubilant assurance of the forgiveness of sin as the guarantee of the inheritance of eternal life?
— Geerhardus Vos