One may not give one's soul to a devil of hate — and remain forever scatheless.
Spirituality Quotes
Alice Bailey, Marianne Williamson, Helena Blavatsky and Eckhart Tolle account for most of the top entries, so the page leans toward modern and esoteric writing. The best-sourced pieces are less solemn. Woody Allen says he does not want to achieve immortality through his work but through not dying, and Henry Miller, in Sexus (1949), counts sex among the nine reasons for reincarnation.
Two flags. “Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology” is credited to Larry Niven and marked misattributed. “Corporations have neither bodies to kick nor souls to damn” is credited to Andrew Jackson and disputed, which says more about how the topic tag was applied than about spirituality.
Most quoted on spirituality:
Whosoever refrains his soul from lust, verily Paradise shall be his abode.
All thoughts that mould the age begin
Deep down within the primitive soul.
None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed.
Implore God to deliver you from the wickedness of your soul.
It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet of the soul.
If we want a love which will protect the soul from wounds we must love something other than God.
Oh, God! it is a fearful thing
To see the human soul take wing
In any shape, in any mood.
Grace has been defined the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.