Huston Smith Quotes

The body is sort of a pain. It has to go to the bathroom. It has to be comfortable. But the spirit is indestructible. It can move at the speed of light.

Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs does glide.

The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.

No mortal ever has been, no mortal ever will be like the soul just launched on the sea of life.

A soul,--a spark of the never-dying flame that separates man from all the other beings of earth.

A trapped soul waits for redemption. It waits. And waits. For her to take her last breath.

God has given you a spirit with wings on which to soar into the spacious firmament of Love and Freedom. Is it not pitiful than that you cut your wings with your own hands and suffer your soul to crawl like an insect upon the earth?

How can I keep my soul in me, so that it doesn't touch your soul? How can I raise it high enough, past you, to other things?

Everything is meant to be lost, that the soul may stand in unhampered nothingness

Fling away your soul once for all, your own small self; if you will find it again. Count not even on immortality.

Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion, and I will cherish it to my last breath.

Our mind thinks of death. Our heart thinks of life. Our soul thinks of Immortality.

He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave.

Human beings, on the contrary, have a soul which lives forever, lives after the body has been turned to dust. It rises up through the clear, pure air beyond the glittering stars.

When you've understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can't understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom.

The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.

I want to save lives, including my own, but Cambodians believe we just rent this body. It is just a house for the spirit, and if the house is full of termites, it is time to leave.

Death to a good man is his release from the imprisonment of this world, and his departure to the enjoyments of another world.

While our sin reaches far, God's grace reaches farther. God came after us not to strip away our freedom but to strip away our slavery to self, that we could become truly free.

Ah, the souls of those that die Are but sunbeams lifted higher.

Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty.

Only the Lord Jesus can redeem the soul that is steeped in guilt and shame. This baggage weighs us down until we accept Jesus' gift-the gift that liberates souls from sin's power.

The soul is bound to the body by a chain of desires, temptations, troubles and worries, and it is trying to free itself. If you keep tugging at that chain which is holding you to mortal consciousness, some day an invisible Divine Hand will intervene and snap it apart and you will be free.

The body without soul is no longer at the sacrifice. At the day of death it come to rebirth. The divine spirit will make the soul rejoice seeing the eternity of the world.