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“If the Koran is the soul of Islam, then perhaps the institution of the Muslim family might be described as its body.”

Ifs Soul Body Might Religion Institutions Islam Muslim Family

Book:Women and the family in the Middle East: new voices of change

Source: Women and the family in the Middle East: new voices of change

“For what is man's soul but a flame? It flickers in and around the body of a man as does the flame around the rough log.”

Men Doe Soul Body Flames Rough Flicker

Book:The general's ring

Source: The general's ring

“The body, after all, older and wiser than soul, being first created, and, like a good horse, if given its way would go home by the best path and at the right pace.”

Ifs Way Firsts Soul Home Body Age Given Path Horse Old Age Pace Wiser Good Horse

Book:The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner

Source: The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner

“You've got to love people, places, ideas; you've got to live with mind, body, soul; you've got to be committed; there is no life on the side-lines.”

People Mind Ideas Soul Body Sides Lines Committed Mind Body

Author:Bess Myerson

“This morning it occurred to me for the first time that my body, my faithful companion and friend, truer and better known to me than my own soul, may be after all only a sly beast who will end by devouring his master.”

Firsts May Soul Ends Body My Own Known Morning Masters First Time Faithful Beast Companion Sly Devouring

Book:Memoirs of Hadrian

Source: Memoirs of Hadrian

“The flesh is as spiritual as the soul, and the soul is as natural as the flesh.”

Soul Body Spiritual Natural Flesh

Book:The Nature of Personal Reality (A Seth Book): Specific, Practical Techniques for Solving Everyday Problems and Enriching the Life You Know

Source: The Nature of Personal Reality (A Seth Book): Specific, Practical Techniques for Solving Everyday Problems and Enriching the Life You Know

“There are some people who cannot get onto a train without imagining that they are about to voyage into the significant unknown; as though the notion of movement were inseparably connected with the notion of discovery, as though each displacement of the body were a displacement of the soul.”

People Soul Body Movement Travel Discovery Train Notion Connected Significant Voyages Displacement

Author:Margaret Drabble

“I do isometrics in church so while I'm doing my soul some good, I'm doing my body some good, too.”

Soul Body Church My Soul

Author:Grace Kelly

“Self-reflection is a desire felt by the body, as well as the soul. As dancers, healers, and saints all know, when you turn your attention toward even the simplest physical process - breath, the small movements of the eyes, the turning of a foot in midair - what might have seemed dull matter suddenly awakens.”

Source: The Book of the Courtesans: A Catalogue of Their Virtues

“Speak the truth. Affirm your desire. Declare your intentions. Recall your successes. Your psyche will believe you. Your body will feel you. Your Soul will thank you for the straight-up communication.”

Feels Believe Soul Body Desire Speak Communication Intention Your Body Your Soul Recalls Speak The Truth Straight Up

Author:Danielle LaPorte

“May we not have a picture of Christ, who has a true body? By no means; because, though he has a true body and a reasonable soul, John 1:14, yet his human nature subsists in his divine person, which no picture can represent, Psalm 45:2. Why ought all pictures of Christ to be abominated by Christians? Because they are downright lies, representing no more than the picture of a mere man: whereas, the true Christ is God-man”

Men Humans May Mean Persons Soul Body Christian Lying Christ Human Nature Divine Ought Mere Reasonable Representing Psalms

Author:James Fisher

“Violence wounds the body and it wounds the soul. Of the predator. Of the prey. Of the mourners. Of collective humanity. It diminishes us all.”

Soul Body Humanity Violence Wounds Collectives Diminish Prey Predator

Book:Break No Bones: A Novel

Source: Break No Bones: A Novel

“The body grows by food and work, the mind by use, and the soul through joy and pain.”

Mind Soul Use Body Pain Joy Grows Growth Joy And Pain

Author:Myrtle Reed

“The spirit in which one earns his daily bread means as much to his soul as the bread itself may mean to his body.”

May Mean Soul Body Spirit Work Bread Daily Bread

Book:Master of the Vineyard

Source: Master of the Vineyard