The world cannot, and never could, satisfy a hungry soul. The Lord Jesus can.
—D. L. Moody
There will be no peace in any soul until it is willing to obey the voice of God.
—D. L. Moody
We are living in very strange days. Some people tell us it does not make any difference what a man believes in if he is only sincere. No greater delusion ever came out of the pit of hell than that. It is ruining more souls at present than anything else.
—D. L. Moody
If you wish to possess love for God’s Word, study it diligently and so become like an artesian well – overflowing with the water of life to refresh thirsty souls.
—D. L. Moody
Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.
—Blaise Pascal
There is a blessing in serious illness. The blessing is that when the body weakens, you feel your soul more fully.
—Leo Tolstoy
There is one thing that I fear more than anything else, and that is the dead, cold formalism of the Church of God. So many of us are just sleeping and slumbering while souls are perishing. Some are beginning to rub our eyes and get them half-opened, but as a whole we are asleep.
—D. L. Moody
Brevity is the soul of wit.
—William Shakespeare
It’s amazing what one ray of the sun can do with the soul of a man!
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
It is as if my heart and my brain did not belong to the same person. Feelings come quicker than lightning and fill my soul, but they bring me no illumination; they burn me and dazzle me.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea.
And there is only one higher idea on earth, and it is the idea of the immortality of the human soul, for all other “higher” ideas of life by which humans might live derive from that idea alone.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
“When a man consciously realizes the love of God in his soul, he cannot want more than that.”
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
“When a man is forgiven by God, and knows that he is saved, the joy of the Lord enters his soul, and he says, You may take all other joys, and do what you like with them. I have my God, my Saviour, and I want no more.”
– Charles Spurgeon
As countless as grains of sand by the sea are human passions, and they all differ; all of them, vile or lofty, begin by being under a man’s control and then become his terrible masters. Blessed is he who has chosen the most lofty of passions: his immeasurable bliss grows and multiplies tenfold with every hour and minute, and he penetrates deeper and deeper into the infinite paradise of his soul.
—Nikolai Gogol
Just as all the water will flow out of a barrel if there’s so much as one little hole in it, so all the joy of love will drain out of your soul if in your soul there is enmity toward so much as a single person.
—Leo Tolstoy
He who has talent in him must be purer in soul than anyone else. Another will be forgiven much, but to him it will not be forgiven. A man who leaves the house in bright, festive clothes needs only one drop of mud splashed from under a wheel, and people all surround him, point their fingers at him, and talk about his slovenliness, while the same people ignore many spots on other passers-by who are wearing everyday clothes. For on everyday clothes the spots do not show.
—Nikolai Gogol
Love—not love toward a specific person but the spiritual condition of readiness to love everything—is the only condition in which we are conscious of the true spiritual source of our souls.
—Leo Tolstoy
To think of parting with peace, health, liberty, relations, wives, children; it is offensive, heavy, and grievous to the best of the saints: but their souls cannot bear the thoughts of parting with Jesus Christ; such a thought is cruel as the grave.
—John Owen
To think of parting with peace, health, liberty, relations, wives, children; it is offensive, heavy, and grievous to the best of the saints: but their souls cannot bear the thoughts of parting with Jesus Christ; such a thought is cruel as the grave.
—John Owen
Praise ye the Lord, for it is good to sing praises unto our God. It is profitable and advantageous. It is health to the mind. The soul is greatly bettered and advantaged by it. It is an exercise that naturally tends to the spiritual life, to strengthen, confirm and increase it.
—Jonathan Edwards
Praise ye the Lord, for it is good to sing praises unto our God. It is profitable and advantageous. It is health to the mind. The soul is greatly bettered and advantaged by it. It is an exercise that naturally tends to the spiritual life, to strengthen, confirm and increase it.
—Jonathan Edwards
Remember that the same spirit that lives in you lives in every other person, and therefore don’t just love but honor as holy the soul of every person as much as your own.
—Leo Tolstoy
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
—Nikolai Gogol
Wean yourself from using your words to condemn others and you’ll feel an increase in your ability to live in your soul; you’ll feel an increase in life and happiness.
—Leo Tolstoy
The doctrines of our election, and free justification in CHRIST JESUS, are daily more and more pressed upon my heart. They fill my soul with a holy fire, and afford me great confidence in GOD my Saviour.
—George Whitefield
The doctrines of our election, and free justification in CHRIST JESUS, are daily more and more pressed upon my heart. They fill my soul with a holy fire, and afford me great confidence in GOD my Saviour.
—George Whitefield
Sin so hardens and dulls the soul that it appears unsupportive of the plainest reason and clearest light and unmoved by things of the greatest and most immediate concern.
—Jonathan Edwards
The soul applieth itself to the promises of the covenant, wherein Christ is most graciously exhibited unto it
—John Owen
Having had a legion of devils cast out of my heart by the power of CHRIST, why should I not tell what he hath done for my soul, for the encouragement of others.
—George Whitefield