"When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul."

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"When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul."

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"What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Poet

Soul, Body, Brevity, Wit

"The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

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"The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

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"The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye."

Charlotte Bronte, British Novelist

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"The most beautiful rainbow is the one inside your soul."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"The divinity of the soul; life, light and love."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation."

George Eliot, British Author

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"Allow Soul's unique knowledge to filter freely from your Soul - through to your Mind."

Eleesha, British Author

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"Things of themselves cannot touch the soul at all. They have no entry to the soul, and cannot turn or move it. The soul alone turns and moves itself, making all externals presented to it cohere with the judgements it thinks worthy of itself."

Marcus Aurelius, Roman Soldier

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"The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down and half-finished loves."

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"Love is the outreach of self toward completion."

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"When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul."

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"Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion."

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"A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men."

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"A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves."

Debt

"The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder."

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"Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it."

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"Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted."

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