Faith & Spirituality Sayings

357 sayings found from 357 authors

I have a soul that pants for liberty.

— Mary Wollstonecraft 1793
Biblical

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson 1841
Biblical

Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.

— Henry David Thoreau 1854
Biblical

The will of the people is the will of God.

— Friedrich Engels N/A
Biblical

To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. All you have to do is surrender your reason.

— Ayn Rand 1957
Biblical

Every secret is a hole in the soul.

— Carl Jung Unknown
Biblical

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

— William James 1902
Biblical

It is by the training of the body that the soul is purified.

— Diogenes c. 350 BCE
Biblical

One should not consider as a defect the fact that the Torah provides for the well-being of the body, as it provides for the well-being of the soul.

— Maimonides c. 1190
Biblical

They have no astrologers among them, nor any other diviners.

— Thomas More 1516
Biblical

I don’t like people who use their faith as justification for doing what they know is wrong.

— Donald Trump 2016
Biblical

Just as a father feels for his children, so does God feel for us.

— Erasmus 1503
Biblical

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

— Blaise Pascal 1670 (posthumous)
Biblical

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free.

— Edmund Burke 1791
Biblical

The soul's tragedy lies in the fact that it must destroy what it creates in order to create something new.

— Georg Simmel 1918
Biblical

The name of man is perhaps the name of the last god.

— Jacques Derrida 1967
Biblical

Rosabelle – answer – tell – pray, answer – look – tell – answer, answer – tell.

— Houdini 1926
Biblical

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

— Simone Weil 1949 (posthumous)
Biblical

The soul has been given its own ears to hear things the mind does not understand.

— Rumi 13th Century
Biblical

The Fire that on my bosom burns, Is not the Fire of Hell; But the Fire of Love, that turns My Soul into a Bell.

— Omar Khayyam c. 11th-12th century
Biblical
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