Quotes about Soul

The Christian life has suffered where believers have not been guided to see that even in our relationships as creatures, nothing is more natural and beautiful and blessed than to be nothing in order that God may be everything. It needs to be made clear that it is not sin that humbles but grace. It is the soul occupied with God in His wonderful glory as Creator and Redeemer that will truly take the lowest place before Him.

Do you not begin to see, my reader, that there are two kinds of warfare? The first is when we seek to conquer prayerlessness in our own strength. In that case, my advice to you is to give over your restlessness and effort; fall helpless at the feet of the Lord Jesus. He will speak the word, and your soul will live.

There is no possibility of salvation but in and by the birth of the meek, humble, patient, resigned Lamb of God in our souls.

We learn a great lesson when we come to understand that the deliberate quieting of our souls and minds before God is the secret of true adoration.

Bless the Lord, O my soul . . . who heals all thy diseases (Psalm 103:2-3).

And God is meant to be the home of our souls. Christ came into the world to bring us back to God, and unless we take Christ for what God intended we should, our religion will always be a divided one.

the New Testament never uses the expression 'help' of the grace of God in the soul. We have absolutely no power - God is not to help us, because we are weak: no, He is to give His life and His power in us as entirely impotent. He that discerns this aright will learn to live by faith alone.

Being filled with the Spirit is simply this: The whole personality is yielded to His power. When the soul is yielded to the Holy Spirit, God himself will fill it.

Jesus Christ is able, by His divine grace, to prevent the power of self from ever asserting itself or gaining the upper hand; Jesus Christ is willing to become the life of the soul; Jesus Christ is willing to teach us so to follow Him, and to have heart and life set upon Him alone, that He shall ever and always be the light of our souls.

God is a Spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and truth.'—John 4: 23, 24.

In that blood, dwelt the soul of the holy Son of God.

Isn't it true," St. Josemaria once said, "that you have seen the need to become a soul of prayer, to reach an intimacy with God that leads to divinization? Such is the Christian faith as always understood by souls of prayer." And as if to prove the "always" part, he goes on to quote St. Clement of Alexandria, who wrote around the year 203 A.D.: "A man becomes God, because he loves whatever God loves.