Art thou totally unclean in soul and body? Here is the fountain for sin and uncleanness! Arise, and wash away thy sins! Stagger no more at the promise through unbelief! Give glory to God! Dare to believe!
—John Wesley
O may I desire to praise God and Christ and present body and soul a reasonable service of sacrifice.
—William Wilberforce
Remember that you’re not standing still, but passing through, that you’re not in a house but on a train that’s taking you toward death. Remember that your body is just passing through and lives for a short time and that only the spirit within you truly lives.
—Leo Tolstoy
I find that both mind and body are quickly tired with intenseness and fervour in the things of God. O that I could be as incessant as angels in devotion and spiritual fervour!
—David Brainerd
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
—Isaac Newton
It is only a wink, and you shall see God. Your happiness shall not be deferred till the resurrection, but as soon as the body is dead the gracious soul is swallowed up in life (Rom 8:10–11).
—John Flavel
Your body must be refined and cast into a new mold, else that new wine of heavenly glory would break it…. Who would not be willing to die for a full sight and enjoyment of God?
—John Flavel
Not only death but all of death’s attendants will be vanquished by the resurrection of the body.
R.C. Sproul
There is a blessing in serious illness. The blessing is that when the body weakens, you feel your soul more fully.
—Leo Tolstoy
The Celts were fearless warriors because they wish to inculcate this as one of their leading tenets, that souls do not become extinct, but pass after death from one body to another.
—Julius Caesar
If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by.
—Sun Tzu
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
—Nikolai Gogol
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a Happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little better for anything else.
—John Locke
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a Happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little better for anything else.
—John Locke
It is only practice that improves our minds as well as bodies, and we must expect nothing from our understandings any farther than they are perfected by habits.
—John Locke