Comfort Quote by Christopher Marlowe

“Faust has spent his youth and manhood, not as others do, in the sunny crowded paths of profit, or among the rosy bowers of…

— Thomas Carlyle

“Faustus, who embraced evil and shunned righteousness, became the foremost symbol of the misuse of free will, that sublime gift from God with its…

— E.A. Bucchianeri

What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die?

— Christopher Marlowe

In fine, a life of good or evil, the hope of Heaven or the despair of Hell, Faustus stands as a reminder that the…

— Anonymous

Faust complained about having two souls in his breast, but I harbor a whole crowd of them and they quarrel. It is like being…

— Otto von Bismarck

FAUSTUS. [Stabbing his arm.] Lo, Mephistophilis, for love of thee, I cut mine arm, and with my proper blood Assure my soul to be…

— Christopher Marlowe

He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both…

— Saint Augustine

Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some…

— Dante Alighieri

A soul who loves Jesus Christ desires to be treated the way Christ was treated-desires to be poor, despised, and humiliated.

— Alphonsus Liguori

“Your god, sir, is the World. In my eyes, you, too, if not an infidel, are an idolater. I conceive that you ignorantly worship:…

— Charlotte Brontë

[I]n order to raise a soul to the highest perfection, He allows it to pass through dryness, brambles, and combats, causing it thereby to…

— Vincent de Paul

Genius! thou gift of Heav'n! thou Light divine! Amid what dangers art thou doom'd to shine! Oft will the body's weakness check thy force,…

— George Crabbe