“Our body is a vessel of corruption; it is meant for death and for the worms, nothing more! And yet we devote ourselves to satisfying it, rather than to enriching our soul, which is so great that we can conceive nothing greater - no, nothing, nothing!” SoulBodyGreaterCorruptionAttachmentSatisfyingWormsVesselEnriching Author:John Vianney
“Soul's Castle fell at one blast of temptation, But many a worm had pierced the foundation.” SoulFoundationTemptationWormsCastlesBlast Book:Poems Source: Poems
“Every object in nature is impressed with God's footsteps, and every day repeats the wonders of creation. There is not an object, be it pebble or pearl, weed or rose, the flower-spangled sward beneath, or the star-spangled sky above, not a worm or an angel, a drop of water or a boundless ocean, in which intelligence may not discern, and piety adore, the providence of Him who took our nature that He might save our souls.” MaySoulMightStarsWaterNatureWonderSkyCreationObjectsFlowerOceanAngelRoseRepeatsWeedProvidenceImpressedAdorePearlsWormsPietyBoundlessFootstepsPebblesDrop Of Water Author:Thomas Guthrie
“I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison worm feeding on all its beauty.” SoulSinPoisonContemptFeedingWorms Author:Nathaniel Parker Willis
“though humility and acknowledgement of one's real failings is good, the gratuitous eating of worms not put before us by God does not nourish our souls a bit - merely in fact upsets the spiritual tummy.” DoeRealSoulFactsSpiritualBitsFailingHumilityEatingUpsetWormsShortcomingsAcknowledgement Author:Evelyn Underhill