Best Soul Quotes
13799 Soul quotes by 5161 unique authors
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All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
— Teresa of Avila
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A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.
— Teresa of Avila
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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…
— Teresa of Avila
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When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.
— Teresa of Avila
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as…
— Teresa of Avila
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O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to…
— Teresa of Avila
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A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in…
— Teresa of Avila
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I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His great magnificence and…
— Teresa of Avila
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In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are…
— Teresa of Avila
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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…
— Teresa of Avila
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When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No…
— Teresa of Avila
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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…
— Teresa of Avila
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On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam rising from vents…
— Diane Ackerman
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The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.
— Johann Sebastian Bach
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Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
— Johann Sebastian Bach
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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
— Gaston Bachelard
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The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us.…
— Gaston Bachelard
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Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
— Francis Bacon
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The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
— Francis Bacon
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I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved…
— Kevin Bacon
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History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
— Lord Acton
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There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.
— Lord Acton
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No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
— Walter Bagehot
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The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing…
— James A. Baldwin
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I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph…
— Ansel Adams
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