The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual – for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart.
It was always a dream as I was growing up. I would watch movies, mostly American movies, and be so engrossed in those stories, all I wanted to do was be there. I wanted to be part of that romance or that fantasy or be that warrior or that struggling soul who finally makes it good.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.
Everything I do is a matter of heart, body and soul.
I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?
Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.
The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.
The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
If you believe indeed in the Lord Jesus for the salvation of your soul, if you walk uprightly and do not regard iniquity in your heart, if you continue to wait patiently, and believingly upon God; then answers will surely be given to your prayers.
Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God.
There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.
I believe that when you’re in love you have to pour your heart and soul out to your partner… or why bother? So in that sense I’m an incurable romantic when it comes to men.
My story is a freedom song from within my soul. It is a guide to discovery, a vision of how even the worst pain and heartaches can be channeled into human monuments, impenetrable and everlasting.
With good music, yes, we can bring people together because a good song will touch your soul no matter what and where it is coming from.
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
Eliminating the things you love is not wellness. Wellness feeds your soul and makes you feel good.
Silence is refreshment for the soul.
True religion is real living; living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and righteousness.
Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.
When your soul is resting, your emotions are okay, your mind is okay, and your will is at peace with God, not resisting what He’s doing.
The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn’t dictate to her.
Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.
Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.
Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.
Lightness, jesting, and joking, can only be indulged at the expense of barrenness of soul, and the loss of the favor of God.
Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.
As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world… to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.
I’ve had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.
A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.
Make yourself do unpleasant things so as to gain the upper hand of your soul.
My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
I stumbled into soul music at a very young age. It had something that really spoke to me.
As a composer, I know that all sorts of sounds I hear are making their way into my brain and soul and later sneak into my music.
Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.
I think that a lot of us, whether we are religious or not – there are no words to express some things except religious words. For instance, ‘soul.’
Every single soul is a poem.
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
A great melodic line is like a person’s soul, and coming up with an original melody, it can be like you are illustrating the soul.
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
Your soul is infinitely creative. It is alive and expansive in nature. It is curious and playful, changing with the tides of time.
Cinema and the arts invite viewers to focus on a story and, in doing so, peel away its layers and peer into the depths of the human soul.
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.
The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
There’s a part in a woman’s soul, God has given it to every woman, and it’s the part where you know whether he’s telling the truth or not. Women see red flags.
A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.
To Jesus Christ I commend my soul; Lord Jesus, receive my soul.
If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake – Aye, what then?
Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired.
I do not come bearing a party label on my sleeve – or a quick fix in my back pocket. I do not come with a rigid ideology in my heart – or a soul that tells me to go it alone. I do not come to uproot tradition – or to be imprisoned by it.
Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.
Try to keep your soul always in peace and quiet, always ready for whatever our Lord may wish to work in you. It is certainly a higher virtue of the soul, and a greater grace, to be able to enjoy the Lord in different times and different places than in only one.
There has been a great laziness in my soul. Lots of days I could write songs, but I could also take my $400 and play the slot machines at the riverfront casino.
The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
Soul music is soul music. It can be wrapped up in a neo soul package; it can be called hip-hop soul. But soul is soul, and it’s been around; it will never go away.
