“Life by life and love by love We passed through the cycles strange, And breath by breath and death by death We followed the chain of change. Till there came a time in the law of life When over the nursing sod The shadows broke and the soul awoke In a strange, dim dream of God.” SoulGodDreamLawStrangeShadowAnd LoveBreathsChainsBrokeCyclesLife And LoveNursingLaws Of LifeSod Book:Evolution: A Poem Source: Evolution: A Poem
“Yet much remains To conquer still; peace hath her victories No less renowned then war, new foes arise Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains: Help us to save free conscience from the paw Of hireling wolves whose gospel is their maw.” StillsWarSoulHelpingVictoryConscienceRemainsAriseChainsConquerSecularThreateningFoePawsRenowned Author:John Milton
“Be watchful lest thou lose the power of desiring and loving what appeals to the soul this is the miser's curse this the chain and ball the sensualist drags.” SoulLosesBallsChainsAppealsCurseDragMisers Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“Nothing is greater than to break the chains from the bodies of men, nothing nobler than to destroy the phantom of the soul.” MenSoulBodyBreakGreaterAtheismPositive AtheismChainsPhantoms Author:Robert Green Ingersoll