“Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods of this world. Compulsion is applied from above as self-discipline relaxes below, and the last liberties expire under the weight of a unitary state.... Since religion has lost its empire over the souls of men, the most prominent boundary that divided good from evil is overthrown; kings and nations are guided by chance and none can say where are the natural limits of despotism and the bound of license.” MenWorldFirstsSoulSelfStatesGovernmentLastsEvilLostNationsNaturalChanceAbilityPleasureLibertyMoralHonestThis WorldKingsDisciplineLimitsWeightBoundsCorruptionBoundariesGenuineRelaxEmpiresGoodsDividedDecayCommerceSelf DisciplineLicenseCompulsionDespotismProminentHamperMoral DecayHonest Government Author:Russell Kirk
“A nervous excitability, a chronic exaltation of the passion, in which commingle the inferior life of the individual and its exterior manifestations, a state in which sentiment, idea, and will are confounded together, where for the lack of the powerful corrective of logic, the flights of imagination know no bounds, where life and human activity are deprived of a regulator, and move outside of material and concrete factors, by the sole interior force of the soul.” KnowsHumansIdeasSoulStatesTogetherMovingPassionIndividualForceImaginationPowerfulMaterialsActivityLogicBoundsJewFactorsFlightNervousManifestationSentimentsConcreteSoleInferiorsInteriorsDeprivedExteriorHuman ActivityExaltationRegulators Author:Kadmi Cohen
“Loving with human love, one may pass from love to hatred; but divine love cannot change. Nothing, not even death, can shatter it. It is all the very nature of the soul. Love is life. All, all that I understand, I understand only because of love. All is bound up in love alone. Love is God and dying means for me a particle of love, to go back to the universal and eternal source of love.” LoveHumansMayMeanSoulLove IsDyingDivineSourceEternalHatredUniversalBoundsOne LoveDivine LoveParticlesGod Is LoveHuman LoveAlone In LoveLove Is Life Author:Leo Tolstoy
“The person who loves God cannot help loving every man as himself, even though he is grieved by the passions of those who are not yet purified. But when they amend their lives, his delight is indescribable and knows no bounds. A soul filled with thoughts of sensual desire and hatred is unpurified. If we detect any trace of hatred in our hearts against any man whatsoever for committing any fault, we are utterly estranged from love for God, since love for God absolutely precludes us from hating any man.” IfsKnowsMenLoveHeartPersonsSoulHelpingChristianDesireHatePassionHatredFilledFaultsBoundsDelightEvery ManSensualGod LoveIndescribable Author:Maximus the Confessor
“We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths - that all of us are created equal - is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall; just as it guided all those men and women, sung and unsung, who left footprints along this great Mall, to hear a preacher say that we cannot walk alone; to hear a King proclaim that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth.” PeopleMenStillsSoulTodayEarthFallIndividualLeftStarsWalksKingsEqualMen And WomenBoundsGuidesPreacherEvidentFootprintMallsIndividual Freedom Author:Barack Obama
“If Satan has blinded and bound men and women, how can we ever see souls saved? This is where you and I enter the picture. Spoiling the goods of the strong man has to do with liberating those whom Satan has blinded and is keeping bound. . . . This is where prayer comes in.” IfsMenSoulStrongPrayerMen And WomenBoundsSavedSatanGoodsLiberatingBlindedStrong Man Author:Theodore Epp
“In the Soul is the awaking of Consciousness: Consciousness sets itself up as Reason, awaking at one bound to the sense of its rationality: and this Reason by its activity emancipates itself to objectivity and the consciousness of its intelligent unity.” SoulReasonConsciousnessActivityIntelligentUnityBoundsRationalityObjectivity Book:Hegel's Philosophy of Mind Source: Hegel's Philosophy of Mind
“My life is like shattered glass." said the visitor. "My soul is tainted with evil. Is there any hope for me? "Yes," said the Master. "There is something whereby each broken thing is bound again and every stain made clean." "What?" "Forgiveness" "Whom do I forgive?" "Everyone: Life, God, your neighbor especially yourself." "How is that done?" "By understanding that no one is to blame," said the Master. "NO ONE.” MadeSaidSoulDoneLife IsEvilUnderstandingMastersBrokenBlameForgivingCleanBoundsGlassesNeighborMy SoulLife Is LikeShatteredVisitorsStainsTaintedBroken ThingsShattered Glass Author:Anthony de Mello
“To those privileged ones -- among whom we count ourselves -- the high-resounding "isms" to which their contemporaries ask them to give their allegiance are all equally futile: bound to be betrayed, defeated, and finally rejected by men at large, if containing anything really noble; bound to enjoy, for the time being, some sort of noisy success, if sufficiently vulgar, pretentious, and soul-killing to appeal to the growing number of mechanically conditioned slaves that crawl about our planet, posing as free men; all destined to prove, ultimately, of no avail.” IfsMenGivingSoulAsksEnjoyNumbersGrowingPlanetsProveSlaveKillingBoundsNobleAppealsDefeatedRejectedPrivilegedVulgarDestinedBetrayedOur PlanetAllegianceFree ManPretentiousNoisyContainingIsmsPosing Author:Savitri Devi
“Whether dualistic, qualified monistic, or monistic, they all firmly believe that everything is in the soul itself; it has only to come out and manifest itself. Therefore, this shraddha is what I want, and what all of us here want, this faith in ourselves, and before you is the great task to get that faith. Give up the awful disease that is creeping, into our national blood, that idea of ridiculing everything, that loss of seriousness. Give that up. Be strong and have this shraddha, and everything else is bound to follow.” WantGivingBelieveIdeasSoulStrongLossBloodDiseaseGiving UpTasksBoundsAwfulManifestQualifiedSeriousness Author:Swami Vivekananda
“The World's a Printing-House, our words, our thoughts, Our deeds, are characters of several sizes. Each soul is a Compos'tor, of whose faults The Levites are Correctors; Heaven Revises. Death is the common Press, from whence being driven, We're gather'd, Sheet by Sheet, and bound for Heaven.” WorldSoulCharacterHouseHeavenCommonPressesFaultsBoundsSizeDeedsDrivenOur ThoughtsSheetsPrintingOur Words Author:Francis Quarles