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Soul Quotes by Meister Eckhart
- Grace pours all beauty into the soul ... The soul means the world.
- Everything is meant to be lost, that the soul may stand in unhampered nothingness
- The soul at its highest is found like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of him. That is all an angel is: an…
- No-one knows what the soul is. But what we do know is, the soul is where God works compassion
- God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.
- Love is as strong as death, as hard as Hell. Death separates the soul from the body, but love separates all things from the soul.
- God is in all things, but so far as God is Divine and so far as He is rational, God is nowhere so properly as…
- Treat all things as if they were loaned to you without any ownership - whether body or soul, sense or strength, external goods or honors,…
- The soul must long for God in order to be set aflame by God's love; but if the soul cannot yet feel the longing, then…
- The soul loves the body. And consider too how it is that the body is more in the soul than the soul is in the…
- Philosophers say the Soul is double-faced, her upper face gazes at God all the time and her lower face looks somewhat down, informing the senses;…
- I have a capacity in my soul for taking in God entirely. I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to…
- The soul does not grow by addition but by subtraction.
- A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why,…
- If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.
- There is something in the soul that is so akin to God that it is one with Him... It has nothing in common with anything…
- When the Soul wants to experience something she throws out an image in front of her and then steps into it.
- Knowledge comes through likeness. And so because the soul may know everything, it is never at rest until it comes to the original idea, in…
- The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity: with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.
- The only thing that burns in Hell is the part of you that won't let go of life, your memories, your attachments. They burn them…
More Soul Quotes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- The soul never thinks without a picture. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on… — Aristotle
- But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. — Nnamdi Azikiwe
- I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the… — Neil Armstrong
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt