- Crystal
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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
- Capabilities
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as unable to comprehend them as to comprehend God, for, as He has told us, He created us in His own image and likeness.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they do not proceed from God as their first principle, and by Him alone is our virtue real virtue.
- Prayer
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- Nov 07, 2020
A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will or no, must ever bear us company?
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
O most merciful Father, put far from me all my iniquities and all my offences; so that, by Thee made whole in body and in soul, I may be accounted worthy to approach the Holy of holies.
- Graces
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as sharers in common with thee in the produce of nature, which brings forth the fruits of the earth for use to all.
- Foundation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of failure to repress the soul's frivolity by a stern use of reason.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
We men are easily prone to sins of thought. Therefore, He who has formed each heart individually, knowing that the impulse received from the intention constitutes the major element in sin, has ordained that purity in the ruling part of our soul be our primary concern.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated substance, but a condition of the soul which is opposed to virtue and which springs up In the slothful because of their falling away from good.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You pour your soul into your book, but you never know how it will be received, and when people like your baby, it's a great feeling.
- Fate
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- Nov 07, 2020
A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is torn; he lives on two streets with three languages. It is a misfortune to live on this sort of 'border,' and that is what I have experienced.
- Nov 07, 2020
I believe everyone has a soul mate that they can spend the rest of their life together.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020