Forgiving Quote by Quentin Crisp

It takes quite a spine to turn the other cheek. It takes phenomenal fortitude to love your enemy. It takes firm resolve to pray…

— Rob Bell

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

— George Eliot

“A victim soul is a pious individual chosen to absorb the pain and suffering of others.”

— Laura Wiess

And do so, love, yet when they have devised What strainèd touches rhetoric can lend, Thou, truly fair, wert truly sympathized In true plain…

— William Shakespeare

The strength of the soul can defy a whole world in arms against it.

— Mahatma Gandhi

No attempt of curing the body should be made without curing the soul

— Plato

We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised, or even not to be esteemed by…

— Blaise Pascal

Certain souls may seem harsh to others, but it is just a way, beknownst only to them, of caring and feeling more deeply.

— Marquis de Sade

The soul must support its own supremacy or die.

— Matilda Joslyn Gage

I think one of the things we must constantly keep in mind is, 'If anybody hits you on one cheek, turn the other.'

— Dorothy Day

Scientists are discovering that while anger and hatred eat into our immune system, warm-heartedness and compassion are good for our health.

— Dalai Lama

There is also an old proverb, that they who pay much attention to the body generally neglect the soul.

— John Calvin