S Quotes
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“Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.”
Source: Dracula Scholar's Annotated Edition.
“Souls and thrones are irreconcilable.”
Source: And I Darken
“Souls are blameless. We commit crimes inside of our mind.”
“Souls are dangerous things to carry straight through all the spilt saltpetre of this world.”
“Souls are flowers, only God has the right to pluck them. But those who commit suicide: their souls are the rotten blossoms of devil's garden.”
“Souls are God's jewels.”
Source: Centuries of Meditations
“Souls are gregarious in a sense, but no soul touches another, as a general rule.”
Source: The Brownings' Correspondence
“Souls are like athletes, that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the full use of their powers, and rewarded according to their capacity.”
Source: The Seven Storey Mountain
“Souls are like stars. There are thousands upon thousands around us yet we only see a few hundred. We know the names of only a handful of them even though we see them every day. They are just there, they are constant. Some change over the years but some stay exactly the same. We can see that some are in pairs and their whole world revolves around each other. Yet there are stars that exist in solitude. They are alone in the big black vastness of space and they have no hope of reaching others in their lifetime. They burn bright; maybe brighter than most but they are alone. They might have a few things around them but those are insignificant and invisible to the outsider. Sometimes when two stars get closer to each other, they affect the other's course, they become brighter for each other but as time passes they get further and further from one another until they blend into the rest, they become strangers again. But the affect remains and their future will never be the same from then on.”
“Souls are made of dawn-stuff and starshine.”
Source: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work
“Souls are punished when they have gone forth from the body, some wandering among us, some going to hot or cold places of the earth, some harassed by spirits. Under all circumstances they suffer with the irrational part of their nature, with which they also sinned. For its sake there subsists that shadowy body which is seen about graves, especially the graves of evil livers.”
“Souls are won for Christ by tears and sweat and pain, especially in prayer and in sacrificial personal friendship.”
Source: Reading Timothy and Titus with John Stott: 13 Weeks for Individuals or Groups
“Souls bound together can't be forever torn apart by distance and neither by death.”
Source: When Light Breaks
“souls connect
&
souls tie.
intertwine humbly and
with care.”
“Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an' tho' a cloud's shape nor hue nor size don't stay the same, it's still a cloud an' so is a soul. Who can say where the cloud's blowed from or who the soul'll be 'morrow? Only Sonmi the east an' the west an' the compass an' the atlas, yay, only the atlas o' clouds.”
Source: Cloud Atlas: A Novel
“Souls do not break neither do hearts. Ravaged by time, they continue living within us and it is our choice whether to remove the walls of self preservation that we build as protection or to hide behind them and remain hardened within our comfort zone.
Life is precious, giving it your all is preferable to withering and dying even before you fall off this mortal coil.”
“Souls do not wish to be bullied, but gently brought back; such is the nature of man.”
“Souls don't bleed. Light and darkness pour through the cracks until the vessel is empty.”
“Souls don't have races or sexes or religions. They are beyond artificial divisions.”
“Souls from Mercury understand true religiousness which is there in every human heart. They will never become fundamentalists in any one religion. They will be able to appreciate the basic truths common to all religions.”
“Souls from the same star find it impossible to resist dancing to the tune of inevitability.”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.”
“Souls grow on bones but die beneath bankers' hours...”
“Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another”
Source: Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
“Souls have different journeys. The best thing to know is, not what everybody else does, but what you do. Self-discovery essentially is finding your own dharma, your own rhythm.”
“Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.”
Source: Fanny
“Souls in heathen darkness lying, where no light has broken through, souls that Jesus bought by dying, whom his soul in travail knew.... Haste, o haste and spread the tidings, let no shore be left untrod, no lost brother's bitter chidings haunt us from the further sod; tell the heathen all the precious truths of God.”
“Souls in pain know no borders.”
Source: My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile
“Souls live on in perpetual echoes.”
Source: Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
“Souls live on without their bodies. But bodies without souls are nothing but compost.”
Source: Croak
“Souls love. That’s what souls do. Egos don’t, but souls do. Become a soul, look around, and you’ll be amazed-all the beings around you are souls. Be one, see one.”
Source: Be Love Now: The Path of the Heart
“Souls love. That’s what souls do. Egos don’t, but souls do. Become a soul, look around, and you’ll be amazed-all the beings around you are souls. Be one, see one. When many people have this heart connection, then we will know that we are all one, we human beings all over the planet. We will be one. One love. And don’t leave out the animals, and trees, and clouds, and galaxies-it’s all one. It’s one energy.”
Source: Be Love Now: The Path of the Heart
“Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue.”
Source: The Revenge: A Tragedy, in Five Acts
“Souls, Ms. Ellis, are for people who blame devils for their illness and praise angels for the cure. I do neither.”
Source: Prism: Shadow of the Fates
“Souls must be converted here, and if there be not many born to Christ, may the Lord grant to me that I may sleep in the tomb and be heard of no more. Better indeed for us to die than to live, if souls be not saved.”
“Souls never die, but always on quitting one abode pass to another. All things change, nothing perishes. The soul passes hither and thither, occupying now this body, now that... As a wax is stamped with certain figures, then melted, then stamped anew with others, yet it is always the same wax. So, the Soul being always the same, yet wears at different times different forms.”
“Souls of Mercury illuminates us as to how we can empower all relationships, specifically with oneself, others and with the Ultimate Reality. The author invites us to awaken from the suffering illusion of life to the wisdom of the ages. —Sunder Arora M.D. FRCPC Adult and Child Psychiatrist, Interfaith Minister, Yoga Teacher. Author of” Ushering in Heaven” A psychiatrist prescription for Healing, Joy, and Spiritual awakening.”
“Souls of poets dead and gone,
What Elysium have ye known,
Happy field or mossy cavern,
Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern?
Have ye tippled drink more fine
Than mine host's Canary wine?”
Sweeter than those dainty pies
Of venison? O generous food!
Drest though bold Robin Hood
Would, wit his maid Marian,
Sup and bowse from horn and can
“I have heard that on a day
Mine host's sign-board flew away,
Nobody knew whither, till
An astrologer's old quill
To a sheepskin gave the story,
Said he saw you in your glory,
Underneath a new old sign
Sipping beverage divine,
And pledging with contented smack
The Mermaid in the Zodiac.”
“Souls of poets dead and gone,
What Elysium have ye known,
Happy field or mossy cavern,
Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern?
Have ye tippled drink more fine
Than mine host's Canary wine?”
“Souls of prayer are souls of great silence”
Source: No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition
“Souls, oh, poor souls—
always pressed against the limits of flesh and bones.”
Source: Ink On My Skin!
“Souls recognize each other. My soul knows your soul since a thousand years!”
“Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.”
Source: Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
“Souls spread over the planet and leave no mountain unclimbed, no valley undiscovered, no sea unsailed, ventured even into outer space.
Souls mingle and leave no relationship unattempted, no emotion unfelt, no pleasure and pain unexplored.
Souls plunge into their minds and leave no tale untold, no image unpainted, no melody unheard.
Souls transcend their fantasies and leave no idea unthought, no natural law undescribed, no wisdom undefined.
Souls even pass over the thinkeable and witness ineffable realms of other worlds and their inhabitants.
Curiosity, the drive to experience, the urge of urges, the world's innermost desire. We, souls, are its foremost scouts. We are the embodiment of the purpose of existence.”
“Souls that have lived in virtue are in general happy, and when separated from the irrational part of their nature, and made clean from all matter, have communion with the gods and join them in the governing of the whole world. Yet even if none of this happiness fell to their lot, virtue itself, and the joy and glory of virtue, and the life that is subject to no grief and no master are enough to make happy those who have set themselves to live according to virtue and have achieved it.”
“Souls were the same. They, too, had useless baggage that impeded their proper performance, these annoying, holier-than-thou bits dangling like an appendix waiting for infection. Faith and hope and love...prudence, temperance, justice, and fortitude...all this useless clutter just packed too much damn morality into the heart, getting in the way of the soul's innate desire for malignancy.”
Source: Covet: A Novel of the Fallen Angels
“Souls who can recognize God in the most trivial, the most grievous and the most mortifying things that happen to them in their lives, honor everything equally with delight and rejoicing, and welcome with open arms what others dread and avoid.”
Source: For God's Greater Glory: Gems of Jesuit Spirituality
“Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.”
Source: The Interior Castle
“Souls will never ascend to Heaven until the sight of beauty lifts them there.”
“Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.”
Source: The Interior Castle (Annotated Edition)