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“Creative people often feel highs of joy and lows of sorrow that others may never experience, and perhaps could not even handle if they did. Little wonder many outside the creative world mistake (or dismiss) eccentric responses of the spirit as weakness or mental illness. But in the end, these dismissive souls will never know what it is to be moved by tears by the beauty of rose or brought to joy by sunlight filtering through the leaves of spring or autumn. The creative walk in glades invisible to those outside their realms.”

“One of the most admirable effects of Holy Communion is to preserve the soul from sin, and to help those who fall through weakness to rise again. It is much more profitable, then, to approach this divine Sacrament with love, respect, and confidence, than to remain away through an excess of fear and scrupulosity.”

Soul Helping Christian Fall Sin Effects Divine Holy Approach Weakness Preserves Excess Communion Sacraments Profitable Admirable Love Respect Holy Communion

Author:Ignatius of Loyola

“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”

Source: Gandhi: Selected Writings

“We falter from childhood amidst shames and fears, we move in closed spaces where stale tradition enervates, we grow hysterical over success and failure, and so by surrounding instinct with terror, we prepare the soul for weakness.”

Soul Moving Grows Space Childhood Weakness Tradition Shame Instinct Terror Success And Failure Stale Hysterical

Book:Walter Lippmann and the American Century. [Mit Portr.] (2. Print.)

Source: Walter Lippmann and the American Century. [Mit Portr.] (2. Print.)

“And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.”

Soul Pleasure Weakness Weak Breasts

Book:Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Tobias Smollett, Samuel Johnson and William Shenstone

Source: Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Tobias Smollett, Samuel Johnson and William Shenstone

“The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls.”

Children Littles Soul Weakness Innocent Limbs

Author:Saint Augustine

“I have found strength where one does not look for it: in simple, mild, and pleasant people, without the least desire to rule -- and, conversely, the desire to rule has often appeared to me a sign of inward weakness: they fear their own slave soul and shroud it in a royal cloak (in the end, they still become the slaves of their followers, their fame, etc.)”

People Looks Doe Stills Soul Ends Desire Found Simple Fame Weakness Slave Pleasant Etc Followers Inward Royal Cloaks Shrouds

Book:Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist

Source: Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist

“In every Christian's Heart, there is a cross and a throne, and the Christian is on the throne till he puts himself on the cross; if he refuses the cross, he remains on the throne. Perhaps this is at the bottom of the backsliding and worldliness among Gospel believers today. We want to be saved, but we insist that Christ do all the dying. No cross for us, no dethronement, no dying. We remain king within the little kingdom of man's soul and wear our tinsel crown with all the pride of a caesar; but we doom ourselves to shadows and weakness and spiritual sterility.”