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“If the soul would know the merit which one acquires in temptations suffered in patience and conquered, it would be tempted to say: "Lord, send me temptations."”

Ifs Knows Soul Would Be Suffering Lord Temptation Merit Acquire Tempted

Author:Pio of Pietrelcina

“No one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any. By enlisting passion on his side he wants to stifle his reason and its doubts: thus he will acquire a good conscience and with it success among his fellow men.”

Men Want Soul Reason Passion Sides Doubt Rights Conscience Fellows Depth Acquire Fellow Man Enlisting

Book:Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

Source: Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“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.”

Soul Ends Desire Certain Individual Strong Numbers Habit Limits Species Acquire Preservation Accustomed Superfluous

Book:The Guide for the Perplexed

Source: The Guide for the Perplexed

“If one doth act in friendly wise, With no evil thought toward any single creature, And in so doing becometh proper, And if he have compassion in his soul Toward all living beings--this noble one Doth acquire abundant Virtue.”

Ifs Soul Evil Compassion Virtue Wise Creatures Noble Acquire Friendly Evil Thoughts

Author:Gautama Buddha

“The Yen Buddhists are the richest religious sect in the universe. They hold that the accumulation of money is a great evil and a burden to the soul. They therefore, regardless of personal hazard, see it as their unpleasant duty to acquire as much as possible in order to reduce the risk to innocent people.”

People Soul Order Universe Evil Religious Risk Humour Duty Burden Innocent Buddhist Acquire Accumulation Hazards Sects Discworld Religious Sects

Book:Witches Abroad: (Discworld Novel 12)

Source: Witches Abroad: (Discworld Novel 12)

“The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.”

Kind Soul Natural Acquire Abandon Contracts Obscurity Rust Presumption Chimera

Author:Quintilian

“Progress, in the sense of acquisition, is something; but progress in the sense of being, is a great deal more. To grow higher, deeper, wider, as the years go on; to conquer difficulties, and acquire more and more power; to feel all one's faculties unfolding, and truth descending into the soul,--this makes life worth living.”

Feels Years Soul Spirituality Grows Deals Progress Goes On Higher Difficulty Deeper Conquer Acquire Faculty Worth Living Acquisition Unfolding Life Worth Living Descending

Book:Self-culture, lectures

Source: Self-culture, lectures

“The soul that is the abode of chastity acquires an energy which enables her to surmount with ease the obstacles that lie along the path of duty.”

Soul Lying Energy Path Duty Obstacles Ease Acquire Chastity Abode

Book:Pensées of Joubert

Source: Pensées of Joubert