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“If love is the soul of Christian existence, it must be at the heart of every other Christian virtue. Thus, for example, justice without love is legalism; faith without love is ideology; hope without love is self-centeredness; forgiveness without love is self-abasement; fortitude without love is recklessness; generosity without love is extravagance; care without love is mere duty; fidelity without love is servitude. Every virtue is an expression of love. No virtue is really a virtue unless it is permeated, or informed, by love.”

“Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired (by passionate devotion to them) produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can peradventure read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity ... we cherish books even if unread, their mere presence exudes comfort, their ready access, reassurance.”

Ifs Book Soul Reading Impossible Produce Ready Comfort Mere Passionate Access Devotion Buying Reaching Cherish Ecstasy Infinity Reassurance

Author:A. Edward Newton

“The future works out great men's destinies; The present is enough for common souls, Who, never looking forward, are indeed Mere clay wherein the footprints of their age Are petrified forever.”

Men Soul Enough Age Common Destiny Forever Mere Work Out Great Men Clay Looking Forward Footprint Future Work

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“I am living a new and exalted life of late. It steeps me in a sacred rapture to see a portrait develop and take soul under my hand. First, I throw off a study - just a mere study, a few apparently random lines - and to look at it you would hardly ever suspect who it was going to be; even I cannot tell, myself.”

Firsts Looks Soul Hands Lines Study Late Sacred Mere Suspects Portraits Exalted Rapture Portraiture Self Portrait Self Portrait Photography

Book:Mark Twain's works

Source: Mark Twain's works

“But perhaps my art is the art of a lunatic, I thought, mere glittering quicksilver, a blue soul breaking in upon my pictures.”

Art Soul Doubt Art Is Blue Mere Lunatic

Author:Marc Chagall

“If happiness is a state of the inward life, we have to look for its chief obstructions not in outward conditions but in deeper places. Happiness depends in the last issue, as we saw, on the essential view of life. It is not a matter of distractions, nor even of mere pleasurable sensations. There may be an appearance of great prosperity with incurable sadness hidden at the heart, as there is an outward peace which is only a well-masked despair. The way to happiness is indeed harder than the way to success; for its chief enemies entrench themselves within the soul.”

Source: Happiness

“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)

“A heart-memory is better than a mere head-memory. Better to carry away a little of the love of Christ in our souls, than if we were able to repeat every word of every sermon we ever heard.”

Ifs Heart Littles Soul Able Christ Memories Heard Mere Repeats Sermons

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate as a poison to the soul, however pleasant and salutary it may appear to be to the body.”

Men May Soul Use Body Failing Mere Flesh Pleasant Poison

Book:True Christianity: A Treatise on Sincere Repentance, True Faith, the Holy Walk of the True Christian, Etc

Source: True Christianity: A Treatise on Sincere Repentance, True Faith, the Holy Walk of the True Christian, Etc

“My body seems a mere encumbrance to me; an imbecillic wagon, hitched to the horse of desire, which is the soul.”

Soul Body Seems Desire Horse Mere Wagons

Author:Robert E. Howard

“This Bible, then, has a mission, grander than any mere creation of God; for in this volume are infinite wisdom, and infinite love. Between its covers are the mind and heart of God; and they are for man's good, for his salvation, his guidance, his spiritual nourishment. If now I neglect my Bible, I do my soul a wrong; for the fact of this Divine message is evidence that I need it.”

“Faith is from within; it is the outbreaking of human spontaneity; it is force of soul, grandeur of sentiment, magnanimity, generosity, courage. Its formulas are naturally unintelligible in their literal tenor; for, otherwise, they would represent that which is scientifically known, and would not be the mere provisional clothing of that which is not objectively given, but subjectively projected from the inmost depth of the soul.”

Humans Soul Given Force Known Mere Depth Generosity Sentiments Formulas Clothings Spontaneity Grandeur Literal Tenors Magnanimity

Book:The Blazing Star

Source: The Blazing Star

“Ignorance is mere privation by which nothing can be produced: it is a vacuity in which the soul sits motionless and torpid for want of attraction: and, without knowing why, we always rejoice when we learn, and grieve when we forget.”

Want Soul Forget Knowing Ignorance Mere Attraction Grieving Rejoice Vacuity

Book:Rasselas, prince of Abyssinia

Source: Rasselas, prince of Abyssinia

“For it is not mere words that nourish the soul, but God Himself, and unless and until the hearers find God in personal experience they are not the better for having heard the truth.”

Soul Heard Mere Personal Experiences

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer