Soul Shaking Quotes

#1. Here we live in the shadow of the steeple, where the holy rubber meets the road, all crookedly blessed in God's mercy, in the heart-stopping, pants-dropping, race-riot-creating, oddball-hating, soul-shaking, love-and-fear-making, heartbreaking town of Freehold, New Jersey. Let the service begin.

Bruce Springsteen

#2. What is it about tears that should be so terrifying? the touch of God is marked by tears ... deep, soul-shaking tears, weeping ... it comes when that last barrier is down and you surrender yourself to health and wholeness

David Wilkerson

#3. The brutal, soul-shaking truth is that we are so earthly minded we are of no heavenly use.

Leonard Ravenhill

#4. My hand was shaking as I accepted that perfect hand. I honestly felt that I had sold my soul the moment I felt his hand encircle mine. I was now utterly his; I felt it down to the very marrow of my bones.

Cristina Rayne

#5. The whip was the standard punishment for disobedience. Running away was a transgression so large that the punishment enveloped every generous soul on her brief tour of freedom.

Colson Whitehead

#6. The best romance writers know there's nothing that builds conflict or makes a gentleman of a rogue more quickly than responsibility.

Sarah MacLean

#7. Porches could be cleaned with a broom in a few minutes, but the soul could not be swept. It had to be shaken. And shaking the loess from a soul took a lifetime and more strength than most people had.

Dan Groat

#8. There's no grandfatherly fondness in me,
There are no gray hairs in my soul!
Shaking the world with my voice and grinning,
I pass you by, - handsome,
Twentytwoyearold.

Vladimir Mayakovsky

#9. It's called the kindness of a fellow human being. You should try it sometime, ya fuck.

S.A. Tawks

#10. Love is not liking somebody. Anyone can do that. Love is loving things that sometimes you don't like.

Ajahn Brahm

#11. You are dreaming your thirst when the water you want is inside the big vein on your neck.

Rumi

#12. Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it.

Howard Nemerov

#13. Bewildered as he might be, sometimes a man's highest calling is simply to stand, and hug.

Brent Weeks

#14. There's never going to be someone else," he says, shaking his head. "You've wrecked me. I wouldn't be any good to anybody now - except for you.

Emm Cole

#15. It's madness to envy other people's happiness. Happiness doesn't come of the peg, it has to be made to measure.

Andre Gide

#16. Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't
and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown.

Rebecca Solnit

#17. Our self (Soul), as a form of God's joy, is deathless. For his joy is amritham, eternal bliss. We know that the life of a Soul, which is finite in its expression and infinite in its principle, must go through the portals of death in its journey to realize the infinite.

Rabindranath Tagore

#18. You saved me," he repeated. The words sounded like they'd been pulled from the depths of his soul. He stepped back and then dropped his jeans, laying his body, mind, and soul bare with me. "Baby - " "My own parents walked away from me, but you saved me," he hissed, raising a shaking hand to my face.

C.P. Smith

#19. Additionally, this tax forces family businesses to invest in Uncle Sam rather than the economy. When families are forced to repurchase businesses because of the death tax, that means less money is being invested in new jobs and capital expansion.

Todd Tiahrt

#20. Conscience is the manifestation of our divine nature, the absolute truthfulness that we all have inside, that resides beyond the instinctive desire to survive.

Ilchi Lee

#21. Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain
shaking ancient oaks.

Sappho

#22. A writer's life is so hazardous that anything he does is bad for him. Anything that happens to him is bad: failure's bad, success is bad; impoverishment is bad, money is very, very bad. Nothing good can happen ... Except the act of writing.

E.L. Doctorow

#23. There were people in the South who were ardently opposed to slavery. And maybe, if we get into truth and reconciliation, those will be the people we want to name schools and streets after.

Bryan Stevenson

#24. All of our policies are based on whether it will make - enable people to improve their lives or it will make their lives worse.

Charles Koch