“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.” MenSoulBodyLife IsPeaceNaturalLibertyOrdinaryDenyStarvingStarvationDwellersAmenities Book:Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi Source: Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi
“No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated substance, but a condition of the soul which is opposed to virtue and which springs up In the slothful because of their falling away from good.” WorldSoulFallEvilVirtueConditionsThis WorldSpringDenySubstanceAnimated Book:Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46) Source: Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46)
“The name of happiness is but a wider termfor the unalloy'd conditions of the Pleasur of Life,attendant on all function, and not to be deny'dto th' soul, unless forsooth in our thought of naturespiritual is by definition unnatural.” SoulNamesConditionsFunctionDefinitionsDenyOur ThoughtsUnnatural Author:Robert Bridges
“Affirm the body, beautiful and whole, The earth-expression of immortal soul. Affirm the mind, the messenger of the hour, To speed between thee and the source of power. Affirm the spirit, the Eternal I - Of this great trinity no part deny.” MindSoulWholeBodyEarthBeautifulSpiritHoursExpressionSourceEternalDenySpeedTheeImmortalMessengersTrinityImmortal Soul Author:Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“Michael [Jackson] reconstructed his face and deconstructed the African features into a spooky European geography of fleshly possibilities, and yet what we couldn't deny, that even as his face got whiter and whiter his music got Blacker and Blacker. His soul got more deeply rooted in the existential agony and the profound social grief that Black people are heir to.” PeopleSoulFacesSocialBlackGriefPossibilityProfoundDenyFeaturesBlack PeopleRootedAgonyExistentialGeographyHeirsSpooky Author:Michael Eric Dyson
“Unbelief is actually perverted faith, for it puts its trust, not in the living God but in dying men. The unbeliever denies the selfsufficiency of God and usurps attributes that are not his. This dual sin dishonors God and ultimately destroys the soul of man.” MenSoulSinDyingDenyAttributesUnbeliefUnbelieversDishonor Book:The Knowledge of the Holy Source: The Knowledge of the Holy
“There is that in the soul of man which must respond to the highest in virtue. It may not respond at once. Human nature can easily be over-faced by examples too remote and austere. Moreover, human nature can easily deny God because the whole race has long been in rebellion against Him. Yet there is that in human nature which calls out to the supreme examples of virtue: owns, as it were, the intention of God who made it, and feels the unmistakable homesickness of the soul.” MenFeelsHumansMayLongMadeSoulWholeRaceVirtueHuman NatureExampleHighestIntentionDenySupremeMade ItRebellionHomesickness Author:Bill Vaughan