Souls

Famous quotes containing the word souls:

    “Welcome the Creations Guest,
    Lord of Earth, and Heavens Heir.
    Lay aside that Warlike Crest,
    And of Nature’s banquet share:
    Where the Souls of fruits and flow’rs
    Stand prepar’d to heighten yours.”
    —Andrew Marvell (1621–1678)

    “Catholics think of grace as a supernatural power which God dispenses, primarily through the Church and its sacraments, to purify the souls of naturally sinful human beings, and render them capable of holiness.... Protestants think of grace as an attribute of God rather than a gift from God. It is a shorthand term signifying God’s determination to love, forgive, and save His human children, however little they deserve it.”
    —Louis Cassels, U.S. religious columnist. “The Catholic-Protestant Differences,” What’s the Difference?, Doubleday (1965)

    “Long hours
    trail in their purple
    and long years are lost
    in just this moment
    while our souls are near,
    our mouths separate.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)