Top 100 Soul Force Quotes
#1. Nonviolence is an active force of the highest order. It is soul force or the power of the godhead within us.
Mahatma Gandhi
#2. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#3. The more and more each is impelled by that which is intuitive, or the relying upon the soul force within, the greater, the farther, the deeper, the broader, the more constructive may be the result.
Edgar Cayce
#4. History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force.
Mahatma Gandhi
#5. In 'Healing the Soul of America,' I wrote about Gandhi's notion of soul force in politics and why it matters to stand on your truth.
Marianne Williamson
#6. Music that is saturated with soul force is the real universal music, understandable by all hearts.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#7. The voice of women has a special role and a special soul force in the struggle for a nonviolent world.
Betty Williams
#8. The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain it by growth from within, which, in its turn, is obtained by self-suffering, self-purification.
Mahatma Gandhi
#9. We must meet hate with love. We must meet physical force with soul force.
Martin Luther
#10. Soul-force comes only through God's grace and never descends upon a man who is a slave to lust.
Mahatma Gandhi
#11. Great causes cannot be served by intellectual equipment alone, they call for spiritual effort of soul-force.
Mahatma Gandhi
#12. The soul force we need in America today, more than any other, is the spirit of atonement. We need to humble ourselves before God and ask forgiveness for the things we have done wrong. We need to ask God to forgive us for our arrogance.
Marianne Williamson
#13. We have to create a world in which there are no unknown, hostile aliens at the other end of any missiles, and that is going to take a tremendous amount of sheer hard work. The only force which can break down those barriers is the force of love, the force of truth, soul-force ...
Betty Williams
#14. Nonviolence or soul force does not need physical aids for its propagation of effect.
Mahatma Gandhi
#15. We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will. And we shall continue to love you.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#17. The use of soul-force for turning stones into bread would have been considered, as it is still considered, as black magic.
Mahatma Gandhi
#18. It's soul force that removed the English from India. It's soul force that brought down the Berlin Wall. It's soul force that gave life to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s struggle for civil rights.
Marianne Williamson
#19. Sometimes I feel an obligation to be accessible as a personality, but for me the driving force since the beginning has always been good work, taking risks, trying new things. If the door opens, go through it. Always go forwards.
David Soul
#20. There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life.
Rumi
#21. What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room.
Ray Charles
#22. He fills my thoughts, my dreams, and my nightmares. The memory of him, and his touch, pound on the door to my soul with such force that cracks are forming in the wood. I do my best to act like no one is home by keeping the door locked and the lights off.
Andrea Randall
#23. There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#24. The force of love is the same as the force of the soul or truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
#25. Only living things bring living joy to the soul and must elevate it.
Mahatma Gandhi
#26. Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affliction or grief has humanized the soul.
Frederick William Robertson
#27. I love words. I crave descriptions that overwhelm my imagination with vivid detail. I dwell on phrases that make my heart thrum. I cherish expressions that pierce my emotions and force the tears to spill over. In essence, I long for a writer's soul sealed in ink on the page.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#28. America is the moral force that defeated communism and all those who would put the human soul itself into bondage.
Ronald Reagan
#29. Entertainment will not cure the mind's problems.
Pleasure will not cure the heart's problems.
Wealth will not cure the soul's problems.
Force will not cure the world's problems.
Love will cure every problem.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#30. Because I believe that love is an overwhelming, all-consuming force, and when its genuine you can't really ignore it. No matter how long it takes. It knocks down your door by force. It keeps you awake at night. It plagues your thoughts and burns your soul.
Jessica Thompson
#31. Science has proved there's nothing to the talk of ghosts and spirits, no proof anything like the soul exists. And to my mind that's an argument against the existence of an omniscient force. I think people believe whatever makes living easiest, and who am I to deny someone comfort?
Ann Aguirre
#32. Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. The spirit sports with time.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#33. Being molded into something God wants you to be is such a moving force that your whole personality would change. Joy, peace, strength, compassion, the light, the road ... all would touch your life like a moving orchestra. Breathing life into your soul.
Phil Mitchell
#35. He is my breath. My soul. My life-force. I have spent forever with him.
Krista Ritchie
#36. In all his trials he felt encouraged and sometimes even upbourne by a secret force within. The soul helps the body, and at certain moments uplifts it. It is the only bird which sustains its cage.
Victor Hugo
#37. A soul must gain wisdom by gathering information in whatever way works best. It is impossible to force wisdom on another, because each person has a choice to determine how and if it will be received.
Molly Friedenfeld
#38. By your own soul, learn to live.
If some men force you, take no heed.
If some men hate you, have no care.
Sing your song, dream your dreams
Hope your hopes, and pray your prayers.
Bo Schembechler
#39. But who would force the soul tilts with a straw Against a champion cased in adamant
William Wordsworth
#40. Love is the beauty, the flower, the fragrance, and the attractive force of our soul.
Debasish Mridha
#41. Emotion, which is called a passivity of the soul, is a confused idea, whereby the mind affirms concerning its body, or any part thereof, a force for existence (existendi vis) greater or less than before, and by the presence of which the mind is determined to think of one thing rather than another.
Baruch Spinoza
#42. Dreams won't always take you on a straight path to destiny but they're usually related to what your soul wants for you. They'll force you to ask yourself the hard questions, they'll kick your ass and more importantly, they'll turn you on.
Kelly Cutrone
#43. Love, in all its fragile forms, is the one powerful, enduring force that brings real meaning to our everyday lives ... but the love I mean is the fire that burns inside us all, the inner warmth that prevents our soul from freezing in the winters of despair.
Bradley Trevor Greive
#44. Thou canst not force my soul to wish thee ill, That is the only evil that can kill.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#45. Future strong is adventurous self-mastery. Unlocking your future by running toward the unknown, with the wondrous soul of a child and the drive of a force that will not be stopped.
Bill Jensen
#46. Scottish golf is a more public game. It is more reasonably priced and they play faster. It isn't cart golf. The only reason resorts force you into carts is for the money. They are selling off the soul of the game for a few dollars.
Daniel J. King
#47. The force of the spirit is ever progressive and endless. Its full expression makes it unconquerable in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
#48. Witchcraft ... is a spiritual path. You walk it for nourishment of the soul, to commune with the life force of the universe, and to thereby better know your own life.
Christopher Penczak
#49. At the heart of any poor soul not at one with the Force, there is only void.
Tim Lebbon
#50. Sebastian's eyes were the color of smoke and silver. His pale skin, raven hair, and naturally dark red lips, paired with a rebel attitude and a poet's soul, pulled me in like a dark, magnetic force.
Kelly Keaton
#51. It is a sin of the soul to force young people into opinions ... but it is culpable neglect not to impel young people into experiences.
Kurt Hahn
#52. The magnetic force is animate, or imitates a soul; in many respects it surpasses the human soul while it is united to an organic body.
William Gilbert
#53. World. When you want something with all your heart, that's when you are closest to the Soul of the World. It's always a positive force.
Paulo Coelho
#54. In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has to be discovered. We know only a few streaks about astronomy. We are only beginning to imagine the force and composition of the atom. Physics has not yet found any indivisible matter, or psychology a sensible soul.
Lincoln Steffens
#55. Besides, there wasn't a breed of succubi out there that didn't steal something. Whether it was your seed, your soul, your life-force, or your heart, they sucked something out of you and rarely gave back.
Sin definitely did not strike him as the giving kind.
Larissa Ione
#56. Many souls thrive on the life force of others and you are lunch!
Frederick Lenz
#57. O strong soul, by what shore Tarriest thou now? For that force, Surely, has not been left vain!
Matthew Arnold
#58. It was as if an illness that had been latent in me for a long time were now threatening to erupt, as if some soul-destroying and inexorable force had fastened upon me and would gradually paralyze my entire system.
W.G. Sebald
#59. The soul of place is like an invisible net --or a force field -- cast up at times from within a house, neighborhood, or landscape to draw us into its labyrinthine folds.
Linda Lappin
#60. For ever and anon the soul becomes weary of the conventions that are not of it, and with a single stroke shatters the civilized lies with which it is unable to cope, and the strong arm reaches out and takes by force what it cannot win by cunning.
Willa Cather
#61. Soul. I suppose it was an apt description. The unseen force that guides the body.
Stephenie Meyer
#62. Stoics held that material objects alone existed; but immanent in the material universe was a spiritual force which acted through them, manifesting itself under many forms, as fire, aether, spirit, soul, reason, the ruling principle.
Marcus Aurelius
#63. These revelations expressed through Art work upon the soul with a force carrying its own conviction and permeate our sentient life with a sense of truth which logic and mere reason are powerless to combat.
Richard Wagner
#64. What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
Hermann Hesse
#65. Biology is a force to be reckoned with. An ugly child you love with all your heart and soul, you. But it's different. You're pleased with your third-floor walk-up, also, until someone invites you I've to dinner at a house with a pool in the garden.
Herman Koch
#66. Enough of satire; in less harden'd times
Great was her force, and mighty were her rhymes.
I've read of men, beyond man's daring brave,
Who yet have trembled at the strokes she gave;
Whose souls have felt more terrible alarms
From her one line, than from a world in arms.
Charles Churchill
#67. The human will, that force unseen, The offspring of a deathless soul, Can hew a way to any goal, Though walls of granite intervene.
James Allen
#68. I am the life-force power of the universe. I am the life-force power of the 50 trillion beautiful molecular geniuses that make up my form, at one with all that is.
Jill Bolte Taylor
#69. Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
John Dryden
#70. Following your feelings will lead you to their source. Only through emotions can you encounter the force field of your own soul.
Gary Zukav
#71. The job of the poet (a job which can't be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force.
Jean Cocteau
#72. Let a man begin in earnest with "I ought," and he will end, by God's grace, if he persevere, with "I will." Let him force himself to abound in all small offices of kindliness, attention, affectionateness, and all these for God's sake. By and by he will feel them become the habit of his soul.
Frederick William Robertson
#73. Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth: if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy into the soul, you would do more to make the man a thorough worker than if you could lend him the force of Hercules, or the hundred arms of Briareus.
William Wilberforce
#74. In alchemy, it's called the Soul of the World. When you want something with all your heart, that's when you are closest to the Soul of the World. It's always a positive force. He
Paulo Coelho
#75. Love is the most mysterious force in the universe.
It locks two souls together across space and time.
Once that spark is ignited it consumes all else.
It was that shard of light that transformed a dark soul forever.
Now let that love burn bright like a sun for eternity ...
Kion Ahadi
#76. When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.
Thomas Carlyle
#77. How insane we are as humans when having received a nasty offense we return the same awful offense. If given an apple found to be rotten and wormy, would we not toss it aside rather than force a soul to eat it? Offenses should be discarded, not returned.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#78. Love is not a passive state. It is an active force. It is the force of the soul.
Gary Zukav
#80. He considered music a liberating force: it liberated him from loneliness, introversion, the dust of the library; it opened the door of his body and allowed his soul to step out into the world and make friends.
Milan Kundera
#81. Soul mates recognise one another's vibration. They instantly fuse to the life force that surrounds their core of being.
Truth Devour
#82. Love does not come to those who seek it, but to those who give love. It is a binding force between souls who have nothing to give but themselves to one another.
Harold Klemp
#83. The soul of man is not a thing which comes and goes, is builded and decays like the elemental frame in which it is set to dwell, but a very living force, a very energy of God's organic will, which rules and moulds this universe.
James Anthony Froude
#84. Emerson argued that "the whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible, and they are. They want awakening, [and for that purpose they need teachers] to get the soul out of bed, out of her deep habitual sleep." That
Huston Smith
#85. General Otis is proclaimed American Military Governor of the Philippines and I protest a thousand times and with all the force in my soul against such pretension.
Emilio Aguinaldo
#86. Love is a more powerful force than magic. You can trick the mind and even the heart, but never the soul. When a person is not free to love with their soul, that is not love and that is why a love spell can never truly work.
Nikki Jefford
#87. Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself.
Henry Reed
#88. Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
Tom Robbins
#89. Spiritual force is like any other force at the service of man.
Mahatma Gandhi
#90. Pregnancy is a kind of miracle. Especially so in that it proves that a man and woman can conspire to force God to create a new soul.
Robert Anton Wilson
#91. Preserve your conscience always soft and sensitive. If but one sin force its way into that tender part of the soul and dwell there, the road is paved for a thousand iniquities.
Isaac Watts
#92. The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and larger circles, and that without end. The extent to which this generation of circles, wheel without wheel, will go, depends on the force or truth of the individual soul.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#93. Nature is a beautiful divine force of artistic expression infusing love into our souls.
Leta B.
#94. If India is to survive, she must be made young again. Rushing and billowing streams of energy must be poured into her; her soul must become, as it was in the old times, like the surges, vast, puissant, calm or turbulent at will, an ocean of action or of force.
Sri Aurobindo
#95. No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.
Thomas Carlyle
#96. Whoever, within his own soul and in human relations, escapes the dominion of force is loved but loved sorrowfully because of the threat of destruction that constantly hangs over him.
Simone Weil
#97. The body, she says, is subject to the force of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure.
Saul Bellow
#98. With grand and lofty natures, the revolts of the flesh and the senses when subjected to physical suffering cause the soul to spring forth, and make it appear on the brow, just as rebellions among the soldiery force the captain to show himself.
Victor Hugo
#100. Every word is an adamantine shell which encloses a great explosive force. To discover its meaning you must let it burst inside you like a bomb and in this way liberate the soul which it imprisons.
Nikos Kazantzakis
