I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea.
A loss never bothers me after I take it. I forget it overnight. But being wrong - not taking the loss - that is what does damage to the pocketbook and to the soul.
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
I came to believe that my true identity goes beyond the outer roles I play. It transcends the ego. I came to understand that there is an Authentic 'I' within - an 'I Am,' or divine spark within the soul.
I had to redo my last house after the pipes burst, and something was lost in the renovation. The soul of the old space was compromised.
Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.
That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt.
I think after 1970 or so, after I sold Soul City, I took off for awhile and didn't do too many gigs.
When you really want a role, you just put your soul in it.
Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.
Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a composition; and how can he convey that idea successfully if he does not enter heart and soul into the life of the music and the tale it unfolds?
What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance.
I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back.
Soul, soul is nothing. Can you see it, smell it, touch it? No.
Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
Family transcends the flesh. You don't love someone because they look like you, you love their spirit; it's the soul connection.
My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.
Blessed be God that Thou hast filled the soul of Thy servant with joy and peace in believing.
The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.
But is not He who created it for the sake of the sick body more than the remedy? And is not He who cures the soul, which is more than the body, greater?
Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.
People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and enjoy his imperishable possession: his soul.
I know I don't own Big Bird, but I own his soul, I feel.
When I bought a collection of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, I returned home with a bright enthusiasm to begin the long march into the Russian soul. Though I've failed to read either man to completion, they both helped me to imagine that my fictional South Carolina was as vast a literary acreage as their Russia.
A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence.
The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul.
The end of all good music is to affect the soul.
I don't believe a Christian has to sell his soul to the devil to vote for Donald Trump.
Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
People want to peg you as alternative R&B when they hear soul or see the color of your skin. It's comfortable when people see artists of color or artists that come from a different country to put that brand on us. It's just not as linear as that.
