Anne Bishop Quotes

The seraph looked up, and pain sliced through my head as our eyes met, almost blinding me. "I honor you. You can do something I cannot," it said softly. "For all I am and all I have been, you are human. You are loved for your inventiveness, both good and bad. I can kill, but you can create. You can even create...an end," it said wistfully. "That's something I will never be able to do. Accept this. Create.

Excuse me, are you the imprint of a departed soul?

I am almost equal to a shadow.

The cloudlets are lazily sailing O'er the blue Atlantic sea; And mid the twilight there hovers A shadowy figure o'er me.

I am the angel of Reality, Seen for a moment standing in the door.

Your body's just a vehicle, transporting the soul. It's what's inside of people, is beauty to behold.

My soul's the present shadow of a presence gone.

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.

The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats, tho' unseen, amongst us.

By the apostle Paul, shadows tonight Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers.

There is something more - the spirit, or the soul. I think that that quality encourages our courtesy and care and our minds. And mercy, and identity.

Swiftly walk o'er the western wave, Spirit of Night! Out of the misty eastern cave, Where, all the long and lone daylight, Thou wovest dreams of joyand fear, Which make thee terrible and dear, Swift be thy flight!

I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I'd never seen before in my life.

Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals.

Rising from the past, my shadow Is running in silence to meet me.

I stalk about her door, like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks staying for waftage.

Sir, I would trust you with my heart. Moreover, we have left our bodies in the banqueting hall. Those on the turf are the shadows of our souls.

The soul is a living, dynamic part of each person. It exists as consciousness and therefore must be found in consciousness.

I'm a ghost," said the small figure, then added, a little uncertainly, "Boo?

God is the Soul of all souls - The Supreme Soul - The Supreme Consciousness.

A shadowless man is a monster, a devil, a thing of evil. A man without a shadow is soulless. A shadow without a man is a pitiable shred. Yet together, light and dark, they make a whole.

In the shadow of my hurt, forgiveness feel like a decision to reward my enemy. But in the shadow of the cross, forgiveness is merely a gift from one undeserving soul to another.

You didn't," John said, stepping from the shadows as he clapped for me, "even hit your head this time.

God — the John Doe of philosophy and religion.

There are black zones of shadow close to our daily paths, and now and then some evil soul breaks a passage through. When that happens, the man who knows must strike before reckoning the consequences.