Margaret Atwood Quotes

The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam.

I tentatively believe in a god. I was brought up in a fairly religious home. I think the world is compatible with reincarnation, karma, all that stuff.

I think being in the world of R&B creates a sense of home, and I think it's important to have that sense of home and spirituality within your music.

You have to know that your real home is within.

We have no choice. We need the communion of souls and only here are they awake.

To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul’s paradox of love.

Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.

Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity

Hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic.

Only when all images of Earth are hushed and the clamor of the senses be stilled, and the soul has passed beyond thought of self, can the eternal wisdom be revealed to the mystic who seeks that highest communion with the unseen.

Prayer is not a stratagem for occasional use, a refuge to resort to now and then. It is rather like an established residence for the innermost self. All things have a home: the bird has a nest, the fox has a hole, the bee has a hive. A soul without prayer is a soul without a home.

Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.

There is a power in the soul, quite separate from the intellect, which sweeps away or recognizes the marvelous, by which God is felt. Faith stands serenely far above the reach of the atheism of science. It does not rest on the wonderful, but on the eternal wisdom and goodness of God. The revelation of the Son was to proclaim a Father, not a mystery. No science can sweep away the everlasting love which the heart feels, and which the intellect does not even pretend to judge or recognize.

Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God.

Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.

Our spiritual life is a venture in the dark, between the soul and God, and no spiritual life is worth the name unless it is so.

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

Sir, usually I do preach for souls, but my orphans cannot eat souls. And if they could, it would take four souls the size of yours to make a square meal for just one orphan!

God does not need our worship. We worship to enlarge our sense of holy, so that we can feel and know the presense of the Lord, who is with us always. He said, Love is what it amounts to, a loftier love, and pleasure in a loving presence.

I think there's a lot that's beautiful about religion and very inspiring, obviously, but I do think that God needs to be rescued from religion actually.

For I did not know that the soul needs to be enlightened by light from outside itself, so that it can participate in truth, because it is not itself the nature of truth.

You have need to pray to God, not only to help you in your troubles--but to help you in your blessings

Show yourself a Christian by suffering without murmuring. In patience possess your soul - they lose nothing who gain Christ.

Your job is the relentless pursuit of who God made you to be. And anything else you do is sin and you need to repent of it.

Grace is God himself, his loving energy at work within his church and within our souls.