- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Soul Quotes
Some lines just reach further than others.
Several of these treat hardship as necessary soul growth rather than something to avoid entirely. For related reflection on the heart's role, see our Heart quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that souls agree to come in and do what they're going to do and then leave when they're going to leave. So there's nothing tragic when a soul leaves. I think it was already preordained.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The animal kingdom is destined by nature to serve, and that service is fulfilled in alleviating the temporal and physical needs of man; the animal spirit or soul is limited by time - it dies with the body.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is certain that, because the negligent do not struggle against self, they never achieve peace of soul or do so tardily, and never possess any virtue in its fullness, while the energetic and industrious make notable advances on both fronts.
- Different Places
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- Nov 07, 2020
Try to keep your soul always in peace and quiet, always ready for whatever our Lord may wish to work in you. It is certainly a higher virtue of the soul, and a greater grace, to be able to enjoy the Lord in different times and different places than in only one.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should love the body insofar as it is obedient and helpful to the soul, since the soul, with the body's help and service, is better disposed for the service and praise of our Creator and Lord.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not the soul alone that should be healthy; if the mind is healthy in a healthy body, all will be healthy and much better prepared to give God greater service.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower, or because God our Lord, seeing that it would be good for them, allows them to melt into tears. But this does not mean that they have greater charity or that they are more effective than others who enjoy no tears.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man was created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord and in this way to save his soul. The other things on Earth were created for man's use, to help him reach the end for which he was created.
- Praise
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- Nov 07, 2020
O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured... At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness.
- Plants
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- Nov 07, 2020