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“The soul seeks growth; as Truth, as Life, as Light, is in itself. God is, and so is life, light, truth, hope, love. And those that abide in same, grow. Those that abide in the shadow of the night, or the conditions that become or make for the fruits of these, do not grow.”

Soul Light Night Grows Growth Conditions Shadow Fruit Hope Love

Book:Soul & Spirit: Fully Understand Yourself and Your Life

Source: Soul & Spirit: Fully Understand Yourself and Your Life

“When a Krishna Conscious person is elevated to a responsible position, he never becomes puffed up. Just like a tree when over-laden with fruits becomes humble and lower down. Similarly, a great soul in Krishna Consciousness becomes humbler than the grass and bowed down like the fruitful trees because a Krishna Conscious person acts as the agent of Krishna, therefore he discharges his duty with great responsibility.”

Persons Soul Consciousness Responsibility Tree Position Humility Duty Conscious Responsible Fruit Humble Agents Grass Krishna Discharge Great Souls Great Responsibility

Author:A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

“Outward beauty is a true sign of inner goodness. This loveliness, indeed, is impressed upon the body in varying degrees as a token by which the soul can be recognized for what it is, just as with trees the beauty of the blossom testifies to the goodness of the fruit.”

Soul Body Tree Goodness Degrees Fruit Impressed Tokens Loveliness Outward Beauty

Author:Baldassare Castiglione

“Yet, sluggard, wake, and gull thy soul no more With earth's false pleasures, and the world's delight, Whose fruit is fair and pleasing to the sight, But sour in taste, false as the putrid core: Thy flaring glass is gems at her half light; She makes thee seeming rich, but truly poor: She boasts a kernel, and bestows a shell; Performs an inch of her fair-promis'd ell: Her words protest a heav'n; her works produce a hell.”

Source: Emblems, Divine and Moral: The School of the Heart ; And, Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man

“Nature that framed us of four elements, Warring within our breasts for regiment, Doth teach us all to have aspiring minds: Our souls, whose faculties can comprehend The wondrous architecture of the world, And measure every wandering planet's course, Still climbing after knowledge infinite, And always moving as the restless spheres, Wills us to wear ourselves, and never rest, Until we reach the ripest fruit of all, That perfect bliss and sole felicity, The sweet fruition of an earthly crown.”

“Often the soul is ripened into fuller goodness while age has spread an ugly film, so that mere glances can never divine the preciousness of the fruit.”

Soul Age Film Divine Goodness Mere Fruit Ugly Spread Glances

Book:Silas Marner (Sparklesoup Classics)

Source: Silas Marner (Sparklesoup Classics)

“[P]ride has no intrinsic substance, being no more than the name given to the soul devouring itself. When that loathsome perversion of love has borne its fruit, it has another, more meaningful and weightier name. We call it hatred.”

Soul Names Given Hatred Fruit Meaningful Substance Perversion Devouring

Book:The Impostor

Source: The Impostor

“I have said this to explain the stanza that follows, in which the soul replies to those who call in question its holy tranquillity, who will have it wholly occupied with outward duties, that its light may shine before the world: these persons have no conception of the fibres and the unseen root whence the sap is drawn, and which nourish the fruit.”

World May Persons Said Soul Light Duty Holy Roots Shining Fruit Conception Unseen Sap Tranquillity

Book:The Collected Works of St John of the Cross: The Dark Night of the Soul, Spiritual Canticle of the Soul and the Bridegroom Christ, the Liv

Source: The Collected Works of St John of the Cross: The Dark Night of the Soul, Spiritual Canticle of the Soul and the Bridegroom Christ, the Liv

“The fruits of this profound union with Jesus are marvelous: our whole being is transformed by the grace of the Holy Spirit: soul, intelligence, will, affections and even the body, because we are united in body and spirit.”

Soul Whole Body Spirit Jesus United Grace Holy Unions Profound Fruit Affection Holy Spirit Transformed Marvelous

Author:Pope Francis

“Only in the sacredness of inward silence does the soul truly meet the secret, hiding God. The strength of resolve, which afterward shapes life, and mixes itself with action, is the fruit of those sacred, solitary moments. There is a divine depth in silence. We meet God alone.”

Doe Soul Moments Action Secret Silence Divine Shapes Sacred Fruit Depth Resolve Hiding Solitary Inward Sacredness

Book:Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Second Series

Source: Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Second Series

“Of all vices take heed of drunkenness; other vices are but fruits of disordered affections--this disorders, nay, banishes reason; other vices but impair the soul--this demolishes her two chief faculties, the understanding and the will; other vices make their own way--this makes way for all vices; he that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.”

Way Two Soul Reason Understanding Fruit Affection Vices Chiefs Faculty Disorder Qualified Heed Drunkenness Drunkards Demolish

Author:Francis Quarles

“Envy may justly be called "the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity;" it is the most acid fruit that grows on the stock of sin, a fluid so subtle that nothing but the fire of divine love can purge it from the soul.”

May Soul Grows Sin Fire Divine Fruit Envy Subtle Bitterness Divine Love Acid Fluid Iniquity

Author:Hosea Ballou