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“Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can look for every opportunity to give and receive love, to appreciate nature, to heal our wounds and the wounds of others, to forgive, and to serve.”

Giving Looks Soul Use Opportunity Grows Love Is Appreciate Forgiving Wounds Heal Tension Romantic Love Giving And Receiving

Author:Joan Z. Borysenko

“Growth of the soul is our goal, and there are many ways to encourage that growth, such as through love, nature, healing our wounds, forgiveness, and service. The soul grows well when giving and receiving love. I nourish my soul daily by loving others and being vulnerable to their love. Love is, after all, a verb, an action word, not a noun.”

Way Giving Wells Soul Action Grows Goal Growth Love Is Healing Love You Wounds My Soul Vulnerable Receiving Verbs Nouns Giving And Receiving Loving Others Nature Love Receiving Love

Author:Joan Z. Borysenko

“If we don't forgive ourselves for our mistakes, and others for the wounds they have inflicted upon us, we end up crippled with guilt. And the soul cannot grow under a blanket of guilt, because guilt is isolating, while growth is a gradual process of reconnection to ourselves, to other people, and to a larger whole.”

People Ifs Soul Ends Whole Grows Process Growth Mistake Forgiving Guilt Wounds Blanket Crippled

Author:Joan Z. Borysenko

“Open thy gate of mercy, gracious God, My soul flies through these wounds to seek out thee.”

Soul Mercy Wounds My Soul Thee Gates Gracious Mercy Of God

Book:First Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III

Source: First Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III

“The animals share with us the privilege of having a soul Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature fed by the death of another! In the midst of such wealth as earth, the best of mothers, provides, yet nothing satisfies you, but to behave like the Cyclopes, inflicting sorry wounds with cruel teeth! You cannot appease the hungry cravings of your wicked, gluttonous stomachs except by destroying some other life.”

“Soul of Christ, sanctify me. Body of Christ, save me. Blood of Christ, inebriate me. Water from the side of Christ, wash me. Passion of Christ, strengthen me. O good Jesus, hear me. Within Thy wounds hide me. Permit me not to be separated from Thee. From the wicked foe defend me. At the hour of my death call me. And bid me come to Thee. That with Thy saints I may praise Thee For ever and ever. Amen.”

Source: The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius: A New Translation Based on Studies in the Language of the Autograph

“The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We'll speak to the night as it's whispering softly.”

Soul Faces Night Speak Dark Silence Wounds Evening Ache Whispering Mute Old Wounds

Book:Disaffections: complete poems 1930-1950

Source: Disaffections: complete poems 1930-1950

“Love is an immortal wound that cannot be closed up. A person loses something, a part of her soul, when she loves someone. And she goes about looking for that lost part of her soul, for she knows that otherwise she is incomplete and cannot be at rest. It is only when she is with the person she loves that she becomes complete again in herself; but the moment he leaves, she loses that part which he has taken with him and knows no rest till she has found him once more.”

Knows Love Persons Soul Moments Found Lost Loses Love Is Taken Wounds Immortal Love Someone Incomplete

Author:Lin Yutang

“Paint here no draped despairs, no saddening clouds, Where the soul rests, proclaims eternity. But let the wrong cry out as raw as wounds, This Time forgets and never heals, far less transcends.”

Soul Forget Cry Despair Eternity Paint Clouds Wounds Heal Saddening

Author:Stephen Spender

“Oh! if you could only hear Intemperance with drunkards' bones drumming on the top of the wine cask the Dead March of immortal souls, you would go home and kneel down and pray God that rather than your children should ever become the victims of this evil habit, you might carry them out to Greenwood and put them down in the last slumber, waiting for the flowers of spring to come over the grave-sweet prophecies of the resurrection. God hath a balm for such a Wound, but what flower of comfort ever grew on the blasted heath of a drunkard's sepulcher?”

“Because the truth is - and we know it - we were born to die without regrets. Regret is the only wound from which the soul never recovers.”

Knows Soul Dies Born Regret Truth Is Wounds Born To Die

Book:Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self

Source: Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self

“I truly believe that regret is the only wound the soul does not recover from, and so I'm trying to live without regrets. ... Each day is another chance to be swept away.”

Trying Believe Doe Soul Chance Regret Wounds Each Day Swept Away Another Chance Live Without Regrets

Author:Sarah Ban Breathnach