Top 100 For The Soul Quotes
#2. Confession alone is not necessarily good for the soul.
Pete Hamill
#3. I try to eat healthy. But sometimes, though, I eat cheeseburgers. That's good for the soul. I make sure to balance everything out. I drink tons of water.
Gal Gadot
#4. We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure.
Paul
#7. When I realized I wanted to do more writing and less traveling around the world teaching live seminars, I decided to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul(R)' book. I knew I wanted to have 100 stories in the book, so I wrote or edited two stories a week for a year.
Jack Canfield
#8. Feelings are for the soul what food is for the body.
Rudolf Steiner
#9. We need to encourage new believers to feed on God's Word - it is nourishment for the soul.
Billy Graham
#10. If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.
Herodotus
#11. There is no soul that does not respond to love, for the soul of man is a guest that has gone hungry these centuries back.
Maurice Maeterlinck
#12. It is not simply a theological treatise, a code of laws, a religious homily, but the Bible - the book - while the only book for the soul, the best book for the mind
Herrick Johnson
#13. To love thus is to love according to the soul; and there is no soul that does not respond to this love. For the soul of man is a guest that has gone hungry these centuries back, and never has it to be summoned twice to the nuptial feast.
Maurice Maeterlinck
#14. We have no sympathy with those who are controlled by ideas and passions which we neither understand nor feel. Thus they who live to satisfy the appetites do not believe it possible to live in and for the soul.
John Lancaster Spalding
#15. Zig Ziglar may be the master motivator, Mark Victor Hansen and Jack Canfield of Chicken Soup for the Soul, the master story tellers; Anthony Robbins may be the guru of personal development, but Bob Proctor is a master thinker. When it comes to systemizing life, no one can touch him.
Doug Wead
#16. We are all starved for the glory of God, not self. No one goes to the Grand Canyon to increase self-esteem. Why do we go? Because there is greater healing for the soul in beholding splendor than there is in beholding self.
John Piper
#18. Now, quit lookin' at my ass Ms. Bellemy and do some work. It's good for the soul , or some bullshit, I hear.
Alex Morgan
#19. Many a man in his hour of trial has turned to the Book of Mormon and been enlightened, enlivened, and comforted. The psalms in the Old Testament have a special food for the soul of one in distress.
Ezra Taft Benson
#20. Whenever Monsieur Perdu looked at a book, he did not see it purely in terms of a story, retail price and an essential balm for the soul; he saw freedom on wings of paper.
Nina George
#21. Go deeper than love, for the soul has greater depths, love is like the grass, but the heart is deep wild rock molten, yet dense and permanent.
D.H. Lawrence
#22. The coming of the kingdom brings deliverance, not only for the soul, but also for the body. It embraces nothing less than the re-creation of heaven and earth.
Herman N. Ridderbos
#23. being looked down upon is good for the soul, good for empathy, good training for a human.
Monica Byrne
#24. Far more indispensable then food for the physical body is spiritual nourishment for the soul. One can do without food for a considerable time, but a man of the spirit cannot exist for a single second without spiritual nourishment.
Mahatma Gandhi
#25. Embracing your authentic self is medicine for the soul.
April WIlliams
#26. Confession is good for the soul, they say. I'd imagine this is true. But my sins were too convoluted. And from the little I understand
too damning.
Kate Karyus Quinn
#27. We are not responsible to God for the soul that are saved, but we are responsible for the Gospel that is preached, and for the way in which we preach it
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#28. Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.
Sean O'Casey
#29. The struggle which is now beginning between the Zionist and Bolshevik Jews is little less than a struggle for the soul of the Jewish people.
Winston Churchill
#30. Even when there is no longer hope for the body, there is always hope for the soul.
Jerome Groopman
#31. I love chocolate cake for breakfast," Peggy stalls, "it sets me up for the day. A little decadence is good for the soul." She's been eating more cake than usual, lately. Impending death does have compensations after all, then, if only chocolate-covered ones.
Menna Van Praag
#32. Joy and woe are woven fine, a clothing for the soul divine. Under every grief and pine, runs a joy with silken twine.
William Blake
#33. Make no mistake: girls love getting head as much as giving head. Giving head is good for your health. Getting head is good for the soul.
Chloe Thurlow
#34. Gospel music to me has always been a balm for the soul. It has been able to usher in the spirit, usher in worship, true worship and praise, healing. I find the music to be very good at healing and the passion, you know, which is a testimony being told in song.
Kim Fields
#35. Where the search for the truth is conducted with a wink and a nod
And where power and position are equated with the grace of God
These times are famine for the soul while for the senses it's a feast
From the edge of my country, as far as you see, looking east
Jackson Browne
#36. Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.
Dean Koontz
#37. All action of Sattva, a modification of Prakriti characterised by light and happiness, is for the soul. When Sattva is free from egoism and illuminated with the pure intelligence of Purusha, it is called the self-centred one, because in that state it becomes independent of all relations.
Swami Vivekananda
#38. Gratitude works its magic by serving as an antidote to negative emotions. It's like white blood cells for the soul, protecting us from cynicism, entitlement, anger, and resignation.
Arianna Huffington
#39. When people expect you to react to their nonsense, remain calm and silent. It's good for the soul and makes them think twice.
Karen Gibbs
#40. Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other.
Henry David Thoreau
#41. What's the Christian-bashing all about? Simple- a struggle for the soul of America is under way, a struggle to determine whose views, values, beliefs and standards will serve as the basis of law.
Pat Buchanan
#42. Whoever said confession was good for the soul hadn't been forced to take one after half a night's sleep.
Sabrina Jeffries
#43. Golf courses are beautiful, it's good for the soul and it gets out the anger ... well, if you don't care about the score then you won't have a heart attack.
Matthew Goode
#45. Singing is good for the soul. It's the first thing I do every morning, after my blessings and my grace. I put music on and I sing.
Richard Simmons
#48. The problem is that the Chicken-Soup-for-the-Soul stuff may feel good, but none of that typical stuff helps when somebody in your neighborhood is murdered.
Shane Claiborne
#50. The gear teeth of his mind, the cogs of the brain's machinery that propelled his thoughts, were grinding to a halt, too long forced to fight against the friction of agony without the aid of hope, the lubricant for the soul.
Dan Groat
#51. If there is a single factor that makes spiritual direction effective as a change agency for the soul, it is this: spiritual direction holds our shame at bay long enough for us to see ourselves as God sees us in Christ.
Gary W. Moon
#52. Over the door of the library in Thebes is the inscription Medicine for the soul.
Diodorus Siculus
#54. If the soulmate is absent there is no need for the soul
Orhan Pamuk
#55. I do not believe in organized religion, herbal remedies, yoga, Reiki, kabbalah, deep massage, slow food, or chicken soup for the soul. The nostrums of Deepak Chopra and Barbara De Angelis cannot rescue people like me. I believe in crazyass passion.
Rinker Buck
#56. Confession may or may not be good for the soul, but it's undoubtedly soothing to the nerves.
Stephen King
#57. In ordinary life, creativity means making something for the soul out of every experience." Thomas Moore Finding
Joanna Penn
#58. This is a war for the soul of Islam. And those countries who are opposed to Islam, they are going to have to get deeply involved in a way that is not the case today. We should be supportive of that effort.
Bernie Sanders
#59. There are no men more careful of the use of means than those that are surest of a good issue and conclusion, for the one stirs up diligence in the other. Assurance of the end stirs up diligence in the means. For the soul of a believing Christian knows that God has decreed both.
Richard Sibbes
#60. The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?
B.K.S. Iyengar
#61. Falls. He saw her bright, fierce little face break into laughter when the crowd laughed. It was good. Laughter is good for the soul and all your interior works. THAT
Paulette Jiles
#62. Experience does for the soul what education does for the mind.
Casey Neistat
#64. Disgraceful: for the soul to give up when the body is still going strong.
Marcus Aurelius
#65. Reading Ehrenreich is good for the soul.
Molly Ivins
#66. Rock 'n' roll is good for the soul, for the well being, for the psyche, for your everything. I love it.
Hank Ballard
#67. A good deed was indeed a triumph for the soul.
Cecelia Ahern
#68. Tea is balm for the soul, don't you agree?
P.L. Travers
#69. I remember reading about an NFL receiver who studies yoga so that his limber limbs won't be surprised when they're slammed into strange positions as he plays his full-contact sport. Well, in case you haven't noticed, life is a full-contact sport, at least for the soul.
Martha N. Beck
#71. For the soul there is never birth nor death. Nor having once been, does he ever cease to be. He is unborn, undying, primeval. He is not slain when the body is slain.
Sattar Memon
#72. The soul is a liar, it's lying to you. A little arrogance is good for the soul though.
Vincent De Paul
#73. Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life's abiding pleasures.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
#74. Wisdom is food for the mind.
Joy is food for the heart.
Love is food for the soul.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#75. The existence of the writer is an argument against the existence of the soul, for the soul has obviously taken flight from the real ego, but not improved itself, only become a writer.
Franz Kafka
#76. What is needed in the world today is a Civil Rights Movement for the Soul, freeing humanity at last from the oppression of its belief in a violent, angry, and vindictive God.
Neale Donald Walsch
#77. I have learnt that a good marriage is healing for the soul, something to relish. But a bad marriage is long-suffering, a thing to be endured. The only good thing about marriage is that it's perishable like human life.
Meghna Pant
#78. You are the mother, the father, the sister, the brother, the teacher and the guide for the soul that has been placed in your trust.
Debbie Ford
#79. Oh, God, why don't I remember that a little chaos is good for the soul?
Marilyn French
#80. People live for two reasons. There are those who live for the Soul; such people are very rare. All others live for money. All day is spent for money, money, money!
Dada Bhagwan
#81. Impulse buying really is good for the soul.
Lacey London
#82. Music is the most natural thing in the world. When we go to a gig and we all like it and we share that experience, it's the same sense of communion as a sacred rite in Borneo or wherever it may be; it just gets dressed up different. Its good for the soul.
Paul Weller
#83. The Eucharist is source and pledge of blessedness and glory, not for the soul alone, but for the body also ... In the frail and perishable body that divine Host, which is the immortal body of Christ, implants a principle of resurrection, a seed of immortality, which one day must germinate
Pope Leo XIII
#84. If forgiveness is medicine for the soul, then gratitude is vitamins.
Steve Maraboli
#85. No game designed to be played with the aid of personal servants by right-handed men who can't even bring along their dogs can be entirely good for the soul.
Bruce McCall
#87. The Lord Jesus Christ is preparing a home fit for all who live for Him, a place designed for the church triumphant. Let's exemplify the work of His hands, for they are busy, on our behalf, building a city large enough to encompass His people of faith - an eternal home for the soul.
Billy Graham
#88. Jung's search for the soul, then, stands at one with the search for appropriately dialogical and differentiated language.
C. G. Jung
#90. It is a shameful thing for the soul to faint while the body still perseveres.
Marcus Aurelius
#91. The answer of course, is that the clock isn't meant to measure earthly time, but the time of the soul. Redemption and condemnation time. For the soul, each instant is always a minute short of judgment.
Gregory Maguire
#93. There is hope for the soul that sin; to be forgiven by the Righteous One.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#94. Wouldn't it be better for the human spirit and for the soul of this nation to encourage people to accept more responsibility to care for each other rather than leaving those tasks to paid bureaucrats.
Ronald Reagan
#95. Writing is like bungee jumping for the soul ... you take a deep breath, plunge into the abyss and hope the rope tethering you to the real world doesn't snap.
Judy Croome
#96. God and Satan play poker with Tarot cards for the soul of an alcoholic sandwich-bag salesman obsessed with Bernini's 'The Ecstasy of St. Teresa.
David Foster Wallace
#97. I am Music. And I am here for the soul of Frankie Presto. Not all of it. Just the rather large part he took from me when he came into this world. However well used, I am a loan, not a possession. You give me back upon departure. I
Mitch Albom
#98. Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.
Peter De Vries
#99. Bread and books: food for the body and food for the soul - what could be more worthy of our respect, and even love?
Salman Rushdie
#100. Meditation was invented as a way for the soul to venture inward, there ultimately to find supreme identity with Godhead. Whatever else it does, and it does many beneficial things, meditation is first and foremost a search for the God within.
Ken Wilber