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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
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.
- Leader
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cannot penetrate the soul of Arafat. I cannot know in advance whether, behind all the masks, he's the kind of leader who can reach an agreement or whether he wants to be the Moses of the Palestinians, staying in front of the river and not crossing into the promised land.
- Endurance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
- Good Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Big money is not a good thing for a little soul: it will only ensnare his feet, and he will fall to his ruin. Wealth is safe only for those who have a wealth of wisdom.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
The life-giving preacher is a man of God, whose heart is ever athirst for God, whose soul is ever following hard after God, whose eye is single to God, and in whom by the power of God's Spirit the flesh and the world have been crucified, and his ministry is like the generous flood of a life-giving river.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
Someone who's awake in the middle of the night is a soul consciousness when everyone else is asleep, and that creates a feeling of solitude in poetry that I very much like.
- Fruit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020