Quotes about Soul
Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
You must learn to love only that which cannot be stolen.
— Alice Walker
If I slip into the place that can be filled by Christ alone, making myself the first necessity to a soul instead of leading it to fasten upon Him, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
— Amy Carmichael
Love is nourished only by sacrifices, and the more a soul refuses natural satisfactions, the stronger and more disinterested becomes her tenderness.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
And is not the lute that soothes your spirit the very wood that was hollowed with knives?
— Khalil Gibran
Love doesn't need reason. It speaks from the irrational wisdom of the heart.
— Deepak Chopra
Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.
— Victor Hugo
Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.
— Catherine of Siena
Love descends upon our souls by the will of God and not by the demand or the plea of the individual.
— Khalil Gibran
May love fill your heart, compassion guide your mind, faith rule your soul.
— Paulo Coelho
Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.
— Philip James Bailey
Your religion is where your love is.
— Henry David Thoreau