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“Just as in one man there is one soul and one body, yet many members; even so the Catholic Church is one body, having many members. The soul that quickens this body is the Holy Spirit; and therefore in the Creed after confessing our belief in the Holy Spirit, we are bid to believe in the Holy Catholic Church.”

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Author:Thomas Aquinas

“Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.”

Soul Evil Sin Worry Praying Anxiety Saint Command

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“Examine from time to time what are the dominant passions of your soul, and having ascertained this, mold your life, so that in thought, word, and deed you may as far as possible counteract them.”

May Soul Passion Saint Deeds Your Soul Dominant Mold

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“The Soul unto itself Is an imperial friend, - Or the most agonizing Spy - An Enemy - could send -”

Soul Friendship Enemy Spy Agonizing

Book:The Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson

“For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.”

Soul Strength Kings Guilty True Strength

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)

“The Bible is not merely a book-it is a living power. . . . Nowhere as in the Bible can be found such a series of beautiful ideas and admirable maxims which pose before us like the battalions of a celestial army. . . . The soul can never go astray while it has this book for its guide.”

Life Book Ideas Soul Beautiful Found Army Series Guides Maxims Admirable Celestial

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“When Byron's eyes were shut in death, We bow'd our head and held our breath. He taught us little; but our soul Had felt his like a thunder roll. . . . We watch'd the fount of fiery life Which serv'd for that Titanic life.”

Life Littles Soul Eye Felt Watches Taught Breaths Bows Thunder Taught Us Fiery Byron

Book:Dover Beach and Other Poems

Source: Dover Beach and Other Poems

“Golden Verses So-called because they are "good as gold." They are by some attributed to Epicarmos, and by others to Empedocles, but always go under the name of Pythagoras, and seem quite in accordance with the excellent precepts of that philosopher. They are as follows: Ne'er suffer sleep thine eyes to close Before thy mind hath run O'er every act, and thought, and word, From dawn to set of sun; For wrong take shame, but grateful feel If just thy course hath been; Such effort day by day renewed Will ward thy soul from sin. E. C. B.”

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Author:Pythagoras

“A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.”

Source: The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: The voice of truth

“To cognize the Divine Essence - this is the highest purpose of soul, sent by the Creator to the Earth!”

Soul Earth Purpose Divine Words Of Wisdom Highest Essence Creator

Author:Pythagoras

“All true and living devotion presupposes the love of God and indeed it is neither more nor less than a very real love of God, though not always of the same kind; for that Love one while shining on the soul we call grace, which makes us acceptable to His Divine Majesty; when it strengthens us to do well, it is called Charity; but when it attains its fullest perfection, in which it not only leads us to do well, but to act carefully, diligently, and promptly, then it is called Devotion.”

Wells Kind Real Soul Grace Divine Perfection Catholic Shining Charity Devotion God Love Acceptable Real Love Majesty

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“Every morning prepare your soul for a tranquil day.”

Soul Morning Catholic Your Soul Every Morning Tranquil

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“Souls do not wish to be bullied, but gently brought back; such is the nature of man.”

Men Soul Wish Catholic Bullied Nature Of Man

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“All we are is our ideas, or people. That's what keeps us going to work in the morning, to hang around these great bright people. I've always thought that recruiting is the heart and soul of what we do.”

People Heart Ideas Soul Inspiring Morning Going To Work Heart And Soul

Author:Steve Jobs

“We all flow from one fountain- Soul. All are expressions of one love. God does not appear, and flow out, only from narrow chinks and round bored wells here and there in favored races and places, but He flows in grand undivided currents, shoreless and boundless over creeds and forms and all kinds of civilizations and peoples and beasts, saturating all and fountainizing all.”

Source: John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings

“The soul of man is divided into three parts, intelligence, reason, and passion. Intelligence and passion are possessed by other animals, but reason by man alone.”

Men Soul Reason Passion Three Animal Divided Possessed

Author:Pythagoras

“And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.”

Soul Dies Sight Glances Hustle Bustle

Author:Matthew Arnold

“The will is free; Strong is the soul, and wise, and beautiful; The seeds of godlike power are in us still; Gods are we, bards, saints, heroes, if we will!”

Ifs Stills Soul Beautiful Strong Wise Hero Saint Seeds Godlike Bards

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)

“The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power! We reach forth and strain every nerve, but we seize only a bit of the curtain that hides the infinite from us.”

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Book:Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals

Source: Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals

“What fortitude the Soul contains, That it can so endure The accent of a coming Foot- The opening of a Door.”

Soul Doors Feet Endure Opening Accents Fortitude

Author:Emily Dickinson

“The Soul should always stand ajar.”

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Book:The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson

“What is virtue? reason put into practice: -talent? reason expressed with brilliance: -soul? reason delicately put forth; and genius is sublime reason.”

Soul Reason Practice Virtue Talent Genius Sublime Brilliance

Author:Andre Chenier

“A soul you say? Give my pocketwatch to a savage and he'll think it has a soul.”

Thinking Giving Soul Atheist Savages

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.”

Children Soul Spiritual Evil Effects Dues Purity Attributes Inherent Inheritance Criminal Mind Used In Criminal Minds

Book:Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

Source: Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

“The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.”

Thinking Inspirational Giving Soul Body Life Is Purpose Peace Thoughtful Purpose Of Life Our Thoughts Languish Live With Purpose Body Temperature

Book:The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts

Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts

“My body is precious and not separate from my soul.”

Soul Body My Soul

Author:Sark

“We compliment weight loss, monitor our appetites, and shrink ourselves to fit some kind of standard. I wish we could all be the size we actually are. One size doesn't fit all because there are as many sizes as there are women. Let's look closer at the size of our hearts, the width of our souls, and the length of our spirits.”

Looks Heart Kind Soul Spirit Wish Loss Fit Standards Weight Size Length Compliment Appetite Shrinks Weight Loss Width

Author:Sark

“The more that each of us tends our own soul, the more the world will prosper.”

Author:Sark

“It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.”

Believe Soul Politics Belief Grows My Own Flesh Firm Proportion Firm Beliefs

Book:Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace

Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace

“Our body is a vessel of corruption; it is meant for death and for the worms, nothing more! And yet we devote ourselves to satisfying it, rather than to enriching our soul, which is so great that we can conceive nothing greater - no, nothing, nothing!”

Soul Body Greater Corruption Attachment Satisfying Worms Vessel Enriching

Author:John Vianney

“Wilderness is a necessity... there must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls.”

Humans Soul Human Beings Wilderness

Author:John Muir

“They tell us that plants are not like man immortal, but are perishable-soul -less. I think that is something that we know exactly nothing about.”

Thinking Knows Men Soul Spirit Religion Spirituality Plant Immortal

Author:John Muir

“In short, the Gaon was a one-sided, severe ascetic, and would never have deserved the title of a good father, a good husband, an amiable man ... [T]here is no occasion at all for pitying Mrs. Gaon. ... Saints are happy in their suffering, and noble souls find their happiness in sacrificing themselves for these sufferers.”

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Author:Solomon Schechter

“Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation”

Men Made Soul Design Creation Fundamentals Layers Veneer Imac

Book:Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

“We don't have a good language to talk about this kind of thing. In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer... But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation.”

People Men Kind Mean Made Soul Language Design Creation Fundamentals Vocabulary Veneer

Author:Steve Jobs

“There are some timid souls that will never know victory nor defeat.”

Knows Soul Victory Perseverance Defeat Classroom

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“Climbing had captured my soul.”

Soul Adventure My Soul Climbing Captured

Book:Dead Lucky: Life After Death on Mount Everest

Source: Dead Lucky: Life After Death on Mount Everest

“To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.”

Men Soul Body Life Is Peace Natural Liberty Ordinary Deny Starving Starvation Dwellers Amenities

Book:Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi

“Ambition is the desire to go forward and improve one's condition. It is a burning flame that lights up the life of the individual and makes him see himself in another state. To be ambitious is to be great in mind and soul. To want that which is worth while and strive for it. To go on without looking back, reaching to that which gives satisfaction.”

Want Giving Mind Soul States Light Desire Individual Conditions Goes On Ambition Strive Satisfaction Burning Flames Reaching Ambitious Looking Back Light Up

Book:Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

Source: Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

“I think of love, and you, and my heart grows full and warm, and my breath stands still... I can feel a sunshine stealing into my soul and making it all summer, and every thorn, a rose.”

Thinking Love Feels Heart Stills I Can Soul Grows My Heart Summer Romantic Breaths Rose Warm Stealing My Soul Sunshine

Book:The Letters of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Letters of Emily Dickinson

“... if, to me, to live is Christ (Phil. 1:21), truly my words ought to be about Christ, my every thought and deed ought to depend upon His commandments, and my soul to be fashioned after His.”

Ifs Soul Christian Christ Depends Ought Deeds My Soul Orthodox Commandments Orthodox Christian

Author:Saint Basil

“People are not to be driven and you can put into a gnat’s eye all the souls of the children of men that are driven into heaven by preaching hell-fire.”

People Men Children Soul Eye Heaven Hell Fire Driven Preaching Gnats Hell Fire Children Of Men

Book:Journal of Discourses

Source: Journal of Discourses

“We all flow from one fountain- Soul. All are expressions of one love.”

Soul Expression Flow Fountain One Love Chinks

Book:John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings

Source: John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings

“There is a solitude of space. A solitude of sea. A solitude of death, but these societies shall be compared with that profounder site-that polar privacy. A soul admitted to itself--Finite infinity.”

Soul Space Sea Solitude Privacy Infinity Site Finite

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

“Do not feed children on a maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature. Let their souls drink in all that is pure and sweet. Rear them, if possible, amid pleasant surroundings ... Let nature teach them the lessons of good and proper living, combined with an abundance of well-balanced nourishment. Those children will grow to be the best men and women. Put the best in them by contact with the best outside. They will absorb it as a plant absorbs the sunshine and the dew.”

“God should be most where man is least: So, where is neither church nor priest, And never rag nor form of creed To clothe the nakedness of need,- Where farmer folk in silence meet,- I turn my bell-unsummoned feet; I lay the critic's glass aside, I tread upon my lettered pride, And, lowest-seated, testify To the oneness of humanity; Confess the universal want, And share whatever Heaven may grant. He findeth not who seeks his own, The soul is lost that's saved alone.”

Source: Among the Hills, and Other Poems

“What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends his leisure otherwise, what nonsense does he not utter? What absurdities does he not listen to? Leisure without the fear of God is, for those who do not know how to use time, the teacher of wickedness.”

Knows Doe Soul Play Use Body Evil Know How Teacher Benefits Nonsense Leisure Absurdity Wickedness Filling Fasting Dice

Book:Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46)

Source: Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46)

“Over the souls of men spread the condor wings of colossal monsters and all manner of evil things prey upon the heart and soul and body of Man. Yet it may be in some far day the shadows shall fade and the Prince of Darkness be chained forever in his hell. And till then mankind can but stand up stoutly to the monsters in his own heart and without, and with the aid of God he may yet triumph.”

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“Unless the man is master of his soul all other kinds of mastery amount to little.”

Men Kind Littles Soul He Man Masters Amount Mastery

Book:The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations

Source: The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations

“Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat?”

Soul White Dare Heat

Book:Dickinson

Source: Dickinson