Spirituality Quotes by George Eliot

Souls live on in perpetual echoes.

— George Eliot

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

— George Eliot

Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.

— George Eliot

“To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.”

— George Eliot

“To the receptive soul the river of life pauseth not, nor is diminished.”

— George Eliot

Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another

— George Eliot

“Even when she was speaking, her soul was in prayer reposing on an unseen support.”

— George Eliot

The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.

— George Eliot

The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul.

— George Eliot

“There comes a moment when the soul must have no guide but the voice within it.”

— George Eliot

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other -…

— George Eliot

“What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each…

— George Eliot

The purifying influence of public confession springs from the fact, that by it the hope in lies is forever swept away, and…

— George Eliot

Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a…

— George Eliot

Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as…

— George Eliot

For years after Lydgate remembered the impression produced in him by this involuntary appeal-this cry from soul to soul, without other consciousness…

— George Eliot

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's…

— George Eliot

Strong souls Live like fire-hearted suns to spend their strength In farthest striving action; breathe more free In mighty anguish than in…

— George Eliot

May every soul that touches mine - be it the slightest contact - get there from some good; some little grace; one…

— George Eliot

May I reach That purest heaven - be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony; Enkindle generous ardor,…

— George Eliot

“What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life--to strengthen each other in…

— George Eliot

“Even people whose lives have been made various by learning, sometimes find it hard to keep a fast hold on their habitual…

— George Eliot

O the anguish of that thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them, for…

— George Eliot

“[She was] a creature full of eager, passionate longings for all that was beautiful and glad; thirsty for all knowledge; with an…

— George Eliot

Great Love has many attributes, and shrines For varied worshippers, but his force divine Shows most its many-named fulness in the man…

— George Eliot

To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so…

— George Eliot

“his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out of self-consciousness into passionate delight; it went on…

— George Eliot

“It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly Considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge…

— George Eliot

“Even people whose lives have been made various by learning sometimes find it hard to keep a fast hold on their habitual…

— George Eliot

“The intensity of her religious disposition, the coercion it exercised over her life, was but one aspect of a nature altogether ardent,…

— George Eliot

“The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentleman whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.”

— George Eliot

When the soul is just liberated from the wretched giant's bed of dogmas on which it has been racked and stretched ever…

— George Eliot

I found it better for my soul to be humble before the mysteries o' God's dealings, and not be making a clatter…

— George Eliot

The sense of an entailed disadvantage - the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and…

— George Eliot

“There are faces which charge with a meaning and pathos not belonging to the single human soul that flutters beneath them, but…

— George Eliot