Quotes about Soul
As a dead man cannot inherit an estate, no more can a dead soul inherit heaven. The soul must be resurrected in Christ.
- DL Moody
That is the best baptism that leaves the man cleanest inside.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A man that is well ordered in his soul needeth little the unkind demeanor of worldly people nor yet their proud behavior.
- Thomas a Kempis
What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?
- William Law
Surely the experience of all good men confirms the proposition that without a due measure of private devotions the soul will grow lean.
- William Wilberforce
Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness.
- GK Chesterton
Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
- Martha Graham
Man does not have a soul. He is a soul. He has a body.
- CS Lewis
The sacraments infuse holiness into the terrain of man's humanity: they penetrate the soul and body, the femininity and masculinity of the personal subject, with the power of holiness.
- Pope John Paul II
He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.
- John Donne
The heart of man is restless until he finds rest in Thee.
- St. Augustine
If you set out to seek freedom, then learn above all things to govern your soul and your senses . . . only through discipline may a man learn to be free.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer