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“Only just now awakening after years of materialism, our soul is still infected with the despair born of unbelief, of lack of purpose and aim.”

Years Stills Soul Purpose Born Despair Aim Awakening Materialism Unbelief

Book:Concerning the Spiritual in Art: And Painting in Particular

Source: Concerning the Spiritual in Art: And Painting in Particular

“Acting is not a genteel profession. Actors used to be buried at a crossroads with a stake through the heart. Those people's performances so troubled the onlookers that they feared their ghosts. An awesome compliment. Those players moved the audience not such that they were admitted to a school, or received a complimentary review, but such that the audience feared for their soul. Now that seems to me something to aim for.”

People Heart Soul Seems School Used Actors Acting Audience Player Performances Aim Moved Profession Ghost Used To Be Reviews Compliment Buried Stakes Crossroads

Author:David Mamet

“God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race - to enlarge our hearts; and to make us unselfish and full of kindly sympathies and affection; to give our shoulds higher aims; to call out all our faculties to extended enterprise and exertion and to bring round our firesides bright faces, happy smiles, and loving, tender hearts. My soul blesses the great Father, every day, that he has gladdened the earth with little children”

Giving Heart Children Littles Soul Earth Faces Purpose Father Race Higher Aim Rounds Affection My Soul Enterprise Faculty Bless Exertion Unselfish Great Father Tender Hearts Happy Smile

Author:Mary Howitt

“Critical (i.e., separating) methods apply only to the world-as-nature. It would be easier to break up a theme of Beethoven with dissecting knife or acid than to break up the soul by methods of abstract thought . Nature-knowledge and man-knowledge have neither ways nor aims in common.”

Men World Way Soul Would Be Common Break Easier Aim Method Critical Abstract Theme Knives Acid Separating Dissecting

Book:The decline of the West

Source: The decline of the West

“The error of the ignorant goes so far as to say that God's power is insufficient, because he has given to this Universe the properties which they imagine cause these great evils, and which do not help all evil-disposed persons to obtain the evil which they seek, and to bring their evil souls to the aim of their desires, though these, as we have shown, are really without limit.”

Persons Soul Helping Desire Universe Evil Given Causes Imagine Limits Aim Property Errors Ignorant Insufficient

Book:The Guide for the Perplexed

Source: The Guide for the Perplexed

“I'm gonna be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender. Where the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender. And believe in whatever may lie in those things that money can buy, though true love could have been a contender.”

Believe Heart May Has Beens Soul Lying Struggle Claims Aim Lays Idiot Ads Could Have Been

Author:Jackson Browne

“The aim of Satanic power is to cut off communication with God. To accomplish this aim he deludes the soul with a sense of defeat, covers him with a thick cloud of darkness, depresses and oppresses the spirit, which in turn hinders prayer and leads to unbelief - thus destroying all power.”

Soul Spirit Turns Prayer Darkness Cutting Communication Aim Defeat Clouds Accomplish Destroying Thick Depressing Hinder Unbelief Satanic Communication With God

Author:James O. Fraser

“To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul.”

Men Soul Atheism Miracle Aim Positive Atheism

Book:Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: Ralph Waldo Emerson