“The mind, the soul, becomes ennobled by the endeavour to create something perfect, for God is perfection, and whoever strives after perfection is striving for something devine.” MindSoulPerfectPerfectionStriveStrifeEndeavour Author:Michelangelo
“Souls will never ascend to Heaven until the sight of beauty lifts them there.” SoulHeavenSightLifts Author:Michelangelo
“I give my soul to God, my body to the earth, and my worldly possessions to my nearest of kin, charging them to remember the sufferings of Jesus Christ.” GivingSoulBodyEarthRememberSufferingJesusChristJesus ChristPossessionMy SoulWorldlyChargingWorldly Possessions Author:Michelangelo
“My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.” InspirationalSoulEarthReligionHeavenBeautyMy SoulLovelinessStaircases Author:Michelangelo
“With few words I shall make thee understand my soul.” SoulInspirationMy SoulTheeFew Words Author:Michelangelo
“For those who feel it, nothing makes the soul so religious and pure as the endeavor to create something perfect; for God is perfection, and whoever strives after it, is striving after something divine. True painting is only the image of the perfection of God, a shadow of the pencil with which he paints, a melody, a striving after harmony.” FeelsSoulReligiousPerfectChristianityDivinePaintingPureShadowPerfectionHarmonyPaintStriveMelodyEndeavorStrifePencils Author:Michelangelo
“Heaven-born, the soul a heavenward course must hold; beyond the world she soars; the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that which perishes, nor will he lend his heart to ought that doth time depend” MenWorldHeartSoulCoursesHeavenBornWiseDependsOughtSoar Author:Michelangelo
“Gazing on beautiful things acts on my soul.” SoulBeautifulMy SoulBeautiful ThingsGazing Author:Michelangelo
“Led by long years to my last hours, too late, O world, I know your joys for what they are. You promise a peace which is not yours to give and the repose that dies before it is born. The years of fear and shame to which Heaven now set a term, renew nothing in me but the old sweet error in which, living overlong a man kills his soul with no gain to his body. I say and I know having put it to the proof, that he has the better part in Heaven whose death falls nearest his birth.” KnowsMenWorldGivingYearsLongSoulBodyLastsDeathJoyDiesFallHeavenTermBornHoursSweetBirthPromiseLateGainsShameErrorsProofToo LateRepose Author:Michelangelo
