Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
Emile M. Cioran

Not all human souls but only the pious ones are divine.
Georg Hermes

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

Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.
Taylor Caldwell

One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
W. E. B. Du Bois

One of the most extraordinary things about being a spiritual teacher is the rare privilege of being able to look deeply into the very souls of many human beings at the same time.
Andrew Cohen

One sees a blatant disregard for the precious souls of mankind.
Thomas S. Monson

Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity.
Jacques Bossuet

Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
Walter Lippmann

Our Father and Our God, unto thee, O Lord we lift our souls.
William Pennington

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
Saint Teresa

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Khalil Gibran

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Edmund Burke

People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all.
Joy Page

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.
James Russell Lowell

Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.
Olive Schreiner

Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.
Alfred A. Montapert

Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged.
William Robertson Smith

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Same with souls. They can't survive without a body for long.
Alex Chiu