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“Friends come back from their worship with a new sense of ordination, but not the ordination of human hands. Something has happened in the stillness that makes the heart more tender, more sensitive, more shocked by evil, more dedicated to ideals of life, and more eager to push back the skirts of darkness and to widen the area of light and love.”

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Rufus Jones

Rufus Jones, born on May 27, 1936 and passed away on April 25, 1990, was a renowned drummer. Known for his unique musical style and contributions to drumming, Jones played in several prominent bands, leaving a lasting impact on the music industry. more

“Whatever his secret was, I have learnt one secret too, and namely: that the soul is but a manner of being - not a constant state - that any soul may be yours, if you find and follow its undulations. The hereafter may be the full ability of consciously living in any chosen soul, in any number of souls, all of them unconscious of their interchangeable burden.”

Ifs May Soul States Ability Numbers Secret Constant Burden Chosen Unconscious Hereafter

Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“At that moment his soul is fuller of the tomb and him who lies there than of the altar and Him of whom it speaks. Such stages have to be gone through, I believe, by all young and brave souls, who must win their way through hero-worship to the worship of Him who is the King and Lord of heroes.”

Way Believe Soul Moments Young Lying Winning Speak I Believe Lord Gone Stage Kings Hero Worship Brave That Moment Altars Tombs Hero Worship Brave Souls

Book:Tom Brown's School Days

Source: Tom Brown's School Days

“He spoke of his campaigns in the deserts of Mexico and he told them of horses killed under him and he said that the souls of horses mirror the souls of men more closely than men suppose and that horses also love war. Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to holo”

Men Heart Said War Soul Shapes Creatures Horse Mirrors Campaigns Desert Spokes Mexico

Book:All the Pretty Horses

Source: All the Pretty Horses

“Little hearts, little souls give little lusts big power. Big hearts give little lusts little power.”

Giving Heart Littles Soul Bigs Lust Big Heart

Author:John Piper

“Pnin slowly walked under solemn pines. The sky was dying. He did not believe in an autocratic God. He did believe, dimly, in a democracy of ghosts. The souls of the dead, perhaps, formed committees, and these, in continuous session, attended the destinies of the quick.”

Believe Soul Destiny Democracy Sky Dying Ghost Committees Session Solemn

Book:Pnin

Source: Pnin

“He rose and turned toward the lights of town. The tidepools bright as smelterpots among the dark rocks where the phosphorescent seacrabs clambered back. Passing through the salt grass he looked back. The horse had not moved. A ship's light winked in the swells. The colt stood against the horse with its head down and the horse was watching, out there past men's knowing, where the stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.”

Men Soul Light Past Stars Black Dark Knowing Sea Rocks Horse Towns Down And Moved Rose Passing Passings Ships Grass Salt Drowning Whales Passing Through Seamless Ferry Colts

Author:Cormac McCarthy

“Which people take the time to care for their souls, these days? I reckon not many. But...hear this: I think that maybe in our lives - in our scrabbling for food, in the washing of our bodies and warming of them, in our small daily battles - we can forget our souls. We do not tend to them, as if they matter less. But I don't think they matter less.”

People Ifs Thinking Soul Matter Body Care Forget Our Lives Battle These Days Washing

Author:Susan Fletcher

“The night is quiet. Like a camp before battle. The city beset by a thing unknown and will it come from forest or sea? The murengers have walled the pale, the gates are shut, but lo the thing's inside and can you guess his shape? Where he's kept or what's the counter of his face? Is he a weaver, bloody shuttle shot through a time warp, a carder of souls from the world's nap? Or a hunter with hounds or do bone horses draw his dead cart through the streets and does he call his trade to each? Dear friend he is not to be dwelt upon for it is by just such wise that he's invited in”

World Doe Soul Faces Night Cities Wise Sea Streets Battle Shapes Quiet Draws Shots Horse Trade Dear Bones Forests Gates Camps Pale Bloody Hunters Invited Naps Carts Dear Friend Hounds Warp Weavers

Book:Suttree

Source: Suttree

“Here is a truth, a truth by which to live: there is hope. There is always hope. If we choose to abandon it, our souls will turn to ash and blow away.”

Ifs Soul Turns Blow Abandon Ashes There Is Hope

Book:The Burning Soul: A Charlie Parker Thriller

Source: The Burning Soul: A Charlie Parker Thriller

“A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect.”

Soul Effects Thousand Ten Acres

Book:Tracts, Chiefly Relating to Ireland: Containing: 1. A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions. II. Essays in Political Arithmetic. III. The Political Anatomy of Ireland

Source: Tracts, Chiefly Relating to Ireland: Containing: 1. A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions. II. Essays in Political Arithmetic. III. The Political Anatomy of Ireland

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