Quotes on Soul Man

It is God's earth out of which man is taken. From it he has his body. His body belongs to his essential being. Man's body is not his prison, his shell his exterior, but man himself. Man does not "have" a body; he does not "have" a soul; rather he "is" body and soul. Man in the beginning is really his body. He is one. He is his body, as Christ is completely his body, as the Church is the body of Christ

Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.

Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.

Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.

The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.