False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
—Plato
Self-negation is noble, self-culture is beneficent, self-possession is manly, but to the truly great and inspiring soul they are poor and tame compared to self-abuse.
—Michelangelo
With few words I shall make thee understand my soul.
—Michelangelo
Surely, dear Sir, the love of CHRIST must constrain us to spend and be spent for the good of souls.
—George Whitefield
The door to the soul, like the door to the house, must be kept closed. A cold wind blows into the door when it’s open, brings in all kinds of dirt and bad people.
—Taras Shevchenko
It is true that in addition to God and the devil in our soul there is something else, so terrible that the heart chills, if you open it even a little.
—Taras Shevchenko
“Blessed be the name of our gracious God, he knows how to erase the evil and to cleanse the soul through his Holy Spirit’s applying the work of Jesus to us.”
Love is a life-giving fire in the human soul, and everything created by man under the influence of this feeling is marked by the seal of life and poetry.
—Taras Shevchenko
The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.
—Carl Jung
The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.
—Carl Jung
Trifle not then, O my soul, with thy immortal interests. Heaven is not to be won without labour.
—William Wilberforce
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings.
The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
—Carl Jung
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings.
The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
—Carl Jung
For the Holy Spirit comes in the Father’s and in the Son’s name and authority, to put the last hand to the work of our salvation, by bringing all the fruits of election and redemption home to our souls in this work.
—John Flavel
I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.
—Vincent Van Gogh
From such trivia, I believe my soul was born.
—Charlie Chaplin
God has by his preventing grace kept me from publicly disgracing the Christian profession. O my soul, praise the Lord, and forget not all his mercies.
—William Wilberforce
No sooner has a soul escaped than the great Adversary takes steps to ensnare it again. The fiercest attacks are made on the strongest forts, and the fiercer the battle the young believer is called on to wage, the surer evidence it is of the work of the Holy Spirit in his heart.
—D. L. Moody
I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.
—Charles Dickens
[F]or contemporary judgment does not recognize that much depth of soul is needed to light up the picture drawn from contemptible life and elevate it into a pearl of creation.
—Nikolai Gogol
My soul bleeds and the blood steadily, silently, disturbingly slowly, swallows me whole.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to men having barbarian souls.
—Heraclitus
The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts.
—Heraclitus
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
—Pablo Picasso
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.
—Carl Jung
“The message of the gospel is applied by Christ directly and distinctly to our own soul.”
– Charles Spurgeon
There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.
—Vincent Van Gogh
I receive Thee ransom of my soul. For love of Thee have I studied and kept vigil toiled preached and taught.
—Thomas Aquinas
Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.
—Charlie Chaplin
Accept everything bad that happens to you the way a sick person takes medicine. Medicines are bitter & distasteful, but a sick person takes it happily & is glad it exists. In the same way, be glad when trials & afflictions are sent to you, knowing that they’re of use to your soul
—Leo Tolstoy