Roger Williams Quotes

Fasting is not bodily hunger but bodily elevation and purity. It is not a body that hungers and longs for food, but a body that rids itself of the desire to eat. Fasting is a time when the soul flourishes and lifts the body up with it. It rids the body of its loads and burdens and lifts it up so that God may work with it without impediment to the happiness of the spiritual entity.

Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.

The best way to make a permanent change for good is to make Jesus Christ your model and His teachings your guide for life.

It is not your outward appearance that you should beautify, but your soul, adorning it with good works.

When your life is filled with the desire to see the holiness in everyday life, something magical happens: Ordinary life becomes extraordinary, and the very process of life begins to nourish your soul.

For it is not mere words that nourish the soul, but God Himself, and unless and until the hearers find God in personal experience they are not the better for having heard the truth.

Prayer is the breath of life to our soul; holiness is impossible without it

Serving throughout the world is a great missionary force going about doing good. Missionaries teach truth. They dispel darkness. They spread joy. They bring precious souls to Christ.

The movement of the soul along the path of duty, under the influence of holy love to God, constitutes what we call good works.

For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.

The soul is in danger when knowledge of doctrine outsteps intimate touch with Jesus.

Self actualization is the oxygen for the soul.

The blessing of God enriches the soul for eternity while that given by the world enriches the body temporarily.

Prayer feeds the soul - as blood is to the body, prayer is to the soul - and it brings you closer to God.

If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.

Surely the experience of all good men confirms the proposition that without a due measure of private devotions the soul will grow lean.

Nothing but prayer can make saints because nothing but God can make saints, and we meet God in prayer. Prayer is the hospital for souls where we meet Doctor God.

Nourish yourself with grand and austere ideas of beauty that feed the soul Seek solitude.

That we should feed and nourish our souls with high notions of GOD; which would yield us great joy in being devoted to Him.

I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?'

The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.

It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul.

Far more indispensable then food for the physical body is spiritual nourishment for the soul. One can do without food for a considerable time, but a man of the spirit cannot exist for a single second without spiritual nourishment.

The Christian religion, then, is not an affair of preaching, or prating, or ranting, but of taking care of the bodies as well as the souls of people; not an affair of belief and of faith and of professions, but an affair of doing good, and especially to those who are in want; not an affair of fire and brimstone, but an affair of bacon and bread, beer and a bed.

That for which Paul lived and died so gloriously; that for which Jesus gave himself to be crucified; the end that animated the thousand martyrs and heroes who have followed his steps, was to redeem us from a formal religion, and teach us to seek our well-being in the formation of the soul.