The blackest murder is the killing of the Soul's aspirations!
EDWIN LEIBFREED, "The Song of the Soul"
The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God's thought and hand, is our own soul!
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
The soul's vitality after death is proportionate to its vitality before death.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
The philosopher stands at his desk in the lecture hall, and demonstrates away the soul of man, and with exact thought measures out his atoms and resolves him back to gas and air. But the revolutionary, below in the crowd, hears, and only translates what he hears thus to his brethren: 'Let us drink while we may; property is robbery; this life is all; let us kill and eat; there is no God.'
- Let thy chief terror be of thine own soul:
- There, 'mid the throng of hurrying desires
- That trample o'er the dead to seize their spoil,
- Lurks vengeance, footless, irresistible
- As exhaltations laden with slow death,
- And o'er the fairest troop of captured joys
- Breathes pallid pestilence.
GEORGE ELIOT, Daniel Deronda
The soul, like the body, acquires vigor by the exercise of all its faculties. In the midst of the world, in overcoming difficulties, in conquering selfishness, indolence, and fear--in all the occasions of duty, it employs, and reveals by employing, energies that render it efficient and robust--that broaden its scope, adjust its powers, and mature it with a rich experience.
E. H. CHAPIN, Living Words
Some men live altogether outside their own souls; some live altogether within their own souls; some pass out and in: these last are the best men.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
It is only God who can satisfy the soul.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
From the magnitude of the brilliant and its properties, the jeweller may arrive at its value; but who can comprehend fully the preciousness of man's soul, except the God who gave it, and the Saviour who died in agony, to redeem it.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY, Proverbs
- Life, with the Soul predominant,
- Is a noble mosaic, a bewitching arabesque.
EDWIN LEIBFREED, "The Song of the Soul"
Music, sculpture, poetry, painting--these are glorious works; but the soul that creates them is more glorious than they. The music shall die on the passing wind, the poem may be lost in the confusion of tongues, the marble will crumble and the canvas will fade, while the soul shall be quenchless and strong, filled with a nobler melody, kindling with loftier themes, projecting images of unearthly beauty, and drinking from springs of imperishable life.
E. H. CHAPIN, Living Words
The soul is often hungrier than the body, and no shops can sell it food.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Would men take the same care of their souls as they do of their bodies, we should find our churches as thronged upon the Sabbath, as our markets are upon a Saturday.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY, Proverbs
The soul of man, when it gets fairly rotten, will bear you all sorts of poisonous toad-stools, and no eye can see whence came the seed thereof.
GEORGE ELIOT, Middlemarch
- My Soul lives many lives.
- Each life a thought, each thought a life.
- I am but Thought.
EDWIN LEIBFREED, "The Song of the Soul"
There may be a soul of the world, there may be ... a psychical side, of which we are not aware, to every atom in the universe, and the psychical side, like the moon, may show us ever but the one face, the other forever in the shadow; but, at best, this is only a conjecture, it presents no solid foundation upon which to rest a theory.
JOHN GRIER HIBBEN, The Problems of Philosophy
Of all battles, there are none like the unrecorded battles of the soul.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
The soul which fathoms every league of the celestial arc--knows, as a mariner the sea, the distant latitudes where comets flame, and worlds career, and constellations shake their awful clusters--wanders amid the spectral nebula, and makes suns and systems to be but glittering beads upon the aspiring thread of its induction, cannot perish. There is a future life. In a universe so spherical and whole as this, reason argues that its own incompleteness and capacity for more are suggestive--are prophetical. Under-shadows and cross-lights of mystery, these filmy depths of present being, shudder in sympathy with something beyond.
E. H. CHAPIN, Living Words
Often the soul is ripened into fuller goodness while age has spread an ugly film, so that mere glances can never divine the preciousness of the fruit.
GEORGE ELIOT, Silas Marner
The stars that roll in glory far above us, and that have stood out so long upon the firmament, like figures on the dial of eternity, shall fade and disappear. But we, who tremble at their greatness and thirst for their secrets, shall pass and live beyond them. Time has no mortgage on the human soul.
E. H. CHAPIN, Living Words
A man's soul ought to be as the heavens were on the night when the shepherds looked up, and saw them full of angels as well as stars.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
The soul can never be corrupted with the corruption of the body, but it is like the wind which causes the sound of the organ, and which ceases to produce a good effect when a pipe is spoilt.
LEONARDO DA VINCI, Thoughts on Art and Life
The living soul of man, once conscious of its power, cannot be quelled.
Most men would gladly give their souls to the Devil, were he willing to accept them.
ABRAHAM MILLER, Unmoral Maxims
He who possesses the divine powers of the soul is a great being, be his place what it may. You may clothe him with rags, may immure him in a dungeon, may chain him to slavish tasks; but he is still great. You may shut him out of your houses; but God opens to him heavenly mansions.
WILLIAM E. CHANNING, Thoughts
The only thing on earth that can determine itself is a human soul.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
Bow with submission before thy soul's dictates rather than before the world's.
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