#soul

If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace. ↗

— Oswald Spengler

#few #long #none #peace #soul

There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It's bound to try a man's soul. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#bound #close #excruciating #killing #man

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#amen #humbly #instead #kept #know

M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect. ↗

— Loretta Swit

#assumed #because #characters #everybody #had

Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things; therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#cannot #comes #desire #entry #everyone

The white sail of his soul has rounded the promontory - death. ↗

— William Alexander

#his #rounded #sail #soul #white

Love is the beauty of the soul. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#beauty #love is #soul

I think that Ionesco's greatest weapon is that he's able to make us laugh at the darkest corners of our souls. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#corners #darkest #greatest #greatest weapon #i

Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#enter #entirely #give #god #ground

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#consequence #feeling #great #immortality #indifferent