T Quotes
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“The soul who is most untouched is the most like to God.”
Source: Hadewijch (CWS)
“The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God's fair bride; and maiden's souls are such.”
“The soul will always do what it needs to do.”
“The soul will bring forth Person if God laughs into her and she laughs back to him. To speak in parable, the Father laughs into the Son and the Son laughs back to the Father; and this laughter breeds liking and liking breeds joy, and joy begets love, and love begets Person, and Person begets the Holy Ghost.”
“The soul will never become pious and purified except through undergoing afflictions. It is the same as gold that can never be pure except after removing all the base metals in it.”
“The soul will remain faithful to its integrity forever. The spirit does not betray.”
“The soul would dry if love stopped flowing through, for the river would dry if the water stopped running through.”
“The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.”
Source: Poems
“The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. [So when you are crying remember also to anticipate and look for the rainbow.]”
“The soul yearns to fly home on the wings of love to the world of ideas. It longs to be freed from the chains of the body.”
“The soul yearns to make love. The ego wants to have sex.”
“The soul, you see, is a shy and retiring thing. It lurks in dark places and dislikes sunlight. And so, if you do not keep the skylight open at all times, the soul will rot. It easily decays, like a fresh sea urchin.”
Source: The Frolic of the Beasts
“The soul your only guru reminds you that, God finally believes in you and given you everything in your hand, never misuse, you are now wiser than wisest and sensible too.”
“The soul's a sort of sentimental wife,
That prays and whimpers of the higher life.”
Source: Richard Le Gallienne: a centenary memoir-anthology
“The soul's bliss and suffering are bound together.”
Source: Collected Poems
“The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy.”
“The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd,
Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made.”
Source: The poetical works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham
“The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home: Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.”
“The soul's dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay
With courage to behold the restless day,
And count it fair.”
“The soul's first adventure is the fight between two ideas: the wish to return to earth in a human form, and the desire to feel the freedom of having no form.”
Source: Self-realization Magazine
“The soul's house is not built on such a convenient plan; there are few soundproof partitions in it. Only when the conviction - not merely the idea - that the demand of the Spirit, however inconvenient, rules the whole of it, will those objectionable noises die down which have a way of penetrating into the nicely furnished little oratory and drowning all the quieter voices by their din.”
Source: Advent with Evelyn Underhill
“The soul's illness is more terrible and more difficult to understand than the illness of the body or any other type of malady.”
“The soul's impurity consists in bad judgements, and purification consists in producing in it right judgements, and the pure soul is one which has right judgements, for this alone is proof against confusion and pollution in its functions.”
“The soul's maladies have their relapses like the body's. What we take for a cure is often just a momentary rally or a new form of the disease.”
“The soul's order is re-established in God through the law.”
“The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise, I barter for curl upon that mart.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)
“The soul's safety is in its heat. Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, make for a Church without power. Destitute of the Fire of God, nothing else counts; possessing Fire, nothing else matters.”
“The soul's true greatness is in loving God and in humbling oneself in His presence, completely forgetting oneself and believing oneself to be nothing; because the Lord is great, but He is well-pleased only with the humble; He always opposes the proud.”
“The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.”
“The soul, at peace, reflects the peace without, Forgetting grief as sunset skies forget The morning's transient shower.”
Source: The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume I: Narrative, Lyric, and Dramatic
“The soul, considered with its Creator, is like one of those mathematical lines that may draw nearer to another for all eternity without a possibility of touching it; and can there be a thought so transporting as to consider ourselves in these perpetual approaches to Him, who is not only the standard of perfection, but of happiness?”
Source: Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste
“The soul, cramped among the petty vexations of Earth, needs to keep its windows constantly open to the invigorating air of large and free ideas: and what thought is so grand as that of an ever-present God, in whom all that is vital in humanity breathes and grows?”
“The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.”
Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“The soul, in its longing to grow, will push us toward crisis points, bringing about a situation that will force us to leave behind the old toys and the worn-out ways of operating. Our soul brings us these crises to remind us that we don’t have to remain stuck in the land of the hunters and the hunted. We are called to draw ourselves up to our full height and confidence, even when terrified at the prospect of the unknown.”
“The soul, in its power, is present in some way in the entire universe, because it apprehends substances which are not included in the body in which it lives, although they are related to it.”
Source: Giordano Bruno: Cause, Principle and Unity: And Essays on Magic
“The soul, light as a feather, fluid as water, innocent as a child, responds to every movement of grace like a floating balloon.”
Source: For God's Greater Glory: Gems of Jesuit Spirituality
“The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact.”
“The soul, like the body, acquires vigor by the exercise of all its faculties. In the midst of the world, in overcoming difficulties, in conquering selfishness, indolence, and fear--in all the occasions of duty, it employs, and reveals by employing, energies that render it efficient and robust--that broaden its scope, adjust its powers, and mature it with a rich experience.”
“The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.”
“The soul, O ganders, flies beyond the parks
And far beyond the discords of the wind.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
“The soul, secured in her existence, smiles
At the drawn dagger, and defies its point.”
Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison
“The soul, too has her virginity and must bleed a little before bearing fruit.”
Source: The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings
“The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.”
Source: The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe
“The soul, when accustomed to superfluous things, acquires a strong habit of desiring things which are neither necessary for the preservation of the individual nor for that of the species. This desire is without limit, whilst those which are necessary are few in number and restricted within certain limits; but what is superfluous is without end.”
Source: The Guide for the Perplexed
“The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.”
“The soul, which is the first principle of life, is not a body, but the act of a body; just as heat, which is the principle of calefaction, is not a body, but an act of a body.”
Source: Basic Writings of St. Thomas Aquinas: Volume One
“The soul-stirring image of death is no bugbear to the sage, and is looked on without despair by the pious. It teaches the former to live, and it strengthens the hopes of the latter in salvation in the midst of distress. Death is new life to both.”
“The soul-sucking activity of TV-watching feels better when it is done with other souls.”
“The soul: a wide listening sky with thousands of candles.”
“The soule needs few things, the body many.”
Source: The remains of ... George Herbert