#souls

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#be grateful #blossom #charming #gardeners #grateful

Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls like Wesley, Wilberforce, Bonhoeffer, John Paul the Second, and Billy Graham. Each showed, in their own way, the relentless and powerful influence of the message of Jesus Christ. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#billy graham #christ #christianity #comfortable #complacent

If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#among #beings #call #concealment #convinced

That's the way I try to live. I think it's the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff. ↗

— Al Jarreau

#everyone #evolution #going #human #human beings

The word of God is that unto our souls, which our soul is unto our body. ↗

— John Jewel

#god #our #soul #souls #unto

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them. ↗

— John Ruskin

#education #human #human souls #leading #making

All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible. ↗

— George Santayana

#deny #else #ignore #living #monstrous

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#believing #comfort #darkness #despair #gives

To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#dominion #life #means #men #over

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#glory #great #great souls #interest #invention