Abode Quote by Joseph Joubert

Chastity is the ermine of woman's soul.

— Elizabeth I

The soul, like the body, acquires vigor by the exercise of all its faculties. In the midst of the world, in overcoming difficulties, in…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The woman's soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.

— Edith Stein

The supreme sway of chastity over the senses makes her queenly.

— Joseph Joubert

Your soul is the priestess of memory, selecting, sifting, and ultimately gathering your vanishing days toward presence.

— John O'Donohue

The Soul selects her own Society.

— Emily Dickinson

When the soul by the Holy Spirit comes to know the Mother of God; when in the Holy Spirit the soul becomes kin to…

— Silouan the Athonite

If the soul be pure, then shall she obtain favor and rejoice in the latter day; but if she hath been defiled, then shall…

— Josephus

Only in the stillness of detachment can the soul yield up her secrets.

— Elsa Barker

Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to…

— Virginia Woolf

The Soul debases her self, when she sets her affections on any thing but her creator.

— Mary Astell

The naked spirit makes the soul light.

— Jean-Paul Malfatti