Soul Force Quotes

Nonviolence is an active force of the highest order. It is soul force or the power of the godhead within us. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

The force of love is the same as the force of the soul or truth. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

When you are a child you are yourself and you know and see everything prophetically. And then suddenly something happens and you stop being yourself; you become what others force you to be. You lose your wisdom and your soul. ~ Jean Rhys

The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain it by growth from within, which, in its turn, is obtained by self-suffering, self-purification. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Music that is saturated with soul force is the real universal music, understandable by all hearts. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda

We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will. And we shall continue to love you. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Spiritual force is like any other force at the service of man. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

There's a gap somehow between empathy and activism. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke of 'soul force' - something that emanates from a deep truth inside of us and empowers us to act. Once you identify your inner genius, you will be able to take action, whether it's writing a check or digging a well. ~ Sue Monk Kidd

Soul-force comes only through God's grace and never descends upon a man who is a slave to lust. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Only living things bring living joy to the soul and must elevate it. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. That strength may be physical or of the heart or, if we do not fight shy of the word, of the spirit. Strength of the heart connotes soul-force. Let it be remembered that physical force is transitory, even as the body is transitory. But the power of spirit is permanent even as the spirit is everlasting. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control. ~ Martin Luther

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence or soul force does not need physical aids for its propagation of effect. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Great causes cannot be served by intellectual equipment alone, they call for spiritual effort of soul-force. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Somebody must have sense enough to meet hate with love. Somebody must have sense enough to meet physical force with soul force. If we will but try this way, we will be able to change these conditions and yet at the same time win the hearts and souls of those who have kept these conditions alive a way as old as the insights of Jesus of Nazareth, as modern as the techniques of Mohandas K. Gandhi. There is another way. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

We must meet hate with love. We must meet physical force with soul force. ~ Martin Luther

Now is the time to make justice a reality for all God's children. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

The more and more each is impelled by that which is intuitive, or the relying upon the soul force within, the greater, the farther, the deeper, the broader, the more constructive may be the result. ~ Edgar Cayce

America is the moral force that defeated communism and all those who would put the human soul itself into bondage. ~ Ronald Reagan

Will is the dynamic soul-force. ~ Albert Pike

The soul force we need in America today, more than any other, is the spirit of atonement. We need to humble ourselves before God and ask forgiveness for the things we have done wrong. We need to ask God to forgive us for our arrogance. ~ Marianne Williamson

Many souls thrive on the life force of others and you are lunch! ~ Frederick Lenz

It's soul force that removed the English from India. It's soul force that brought down the Berlin Wall. It's soul force that gave life to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s struggle for civil rights. ~ Marianne Williamson

Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

We had a moment once when I felt that we were one, in the same feeling, in the same soul. But I've come to learn that these moments can imprison us for years when they were only moments followed by many more that were not the same. ~ Najwa Zebian

His soul sat up. It met me. Those kinds of souls always do - the best ones. The ones who rise up and say "I know who you are and I am ready. Not that I want to go, of course, but I will come." Those souls are always light because more of them have been put out. More of them have already found their way to other places. ~ Markus Zusak

The Wanderer
What is she like?
I was told
she is a
melancholy soul.
She is like
the sun to the night;
a momentary gold.
A star when dimmed
by dawning light;
the flicker of
a candle blown.
A lonely kite
lost in flight
someone once
had flown. ~ Lang Leav

To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by. ~ Stephen Baker

When the sunlight hit the trees, all the beauty and wonder come together. Soul unfolds its petals. Flowering and fruiting of plants starts. The birds song light up the spinal column and harmonize the hippocampal functioning. ~ Amit Ray

Helping other people can be a cure not just for those who are in need, but for your soul as well. ~ Marinela Reka

May the humanity that is within every human being be held precious. The vice that underlies all vices is that we are held cheap by others, and far worse, that in our innermost soul we think cheaply of ourselves. ~ Felix Adler

It is not human nature which can assign the variable limits necessary to our needs. They are thus unlimited so far as they depend on the individual alone. Irrespective of any external regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss. ~ Emile Durkheim

There is no force in high school more powerful than one person's blunt disagreement. ~ Francesca Zappia

Of course it does not apply to me. I am the soul of honor, kindness, mercy and goodness. Trust me in all things. ~ Roger Zelazny

We humble ourselves under the mighty grace of the Creator. He will deliver us from every chain and oppression. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You will stop turning to food when you start understanding in your body, not just your mind, that there is something better ... Truth, not force, does the work of ending compulsive eating. ~ Geneen Roth

I think it's just important to not judge people based on their physicality because it's really about personality and people's hearts and souls. That's what drew me to Audrey Hepburn who is kind of like my icon. ~ Lily Collins

I believe that the soul consists of its sufferings. For the soul that cures its own sufferings dies. ~ Antonio Porchia

Loving who you came from is like looking into the mirror and loving yourself. Your ancestry is your reflection in the mirror. ~ Deborah Bravandt

Gentlemen, as we study the universe we see everywhere the most tremendous manifestations of force. In our own experience we know of but one source of force, namely will. How then can we help regarding the forces we see in nature as due to the will of some omnipresent, omnipotent being? Gentlemen, there must be a GOD. ~ Benjamin Peirce

My heart searches for an escape. We're outside, so anywhere will do, but my soul roots her feet in place. I'm not going anywhere. ~ Andrea Randall

Writing, music, sculpting, painting, and prayer! These are the three things that are most closely related! Writers, musicians, sculptors, painters, and the faithful are the ones who make things out of nothing. Everybody else, they make things out of something, they have materials! But a written work can be done with nothing, it can begin in the soul! A musical piece begins with a harmony in the soul, a sculpture begins with a formless, useless piece of rock chiseled and formed and molded into the thing that was first conceived in the sculptor's heart! A painting can be carried inside the mind for a lifetime, before ever being put onto paper or canvass! And a prayer! A prayer is a thought, a remembrance, a whisper, a communion, that is from the soul going to what cannot be seen, yet it can move mountains! And so I believe that these five things are interrelated, these five kinds of people are kin. ~ C. JoyBell C.

Ah, Toulouse, you have travelled too much. You know the gods of a hundred lands, those of the trees and mountains, the sky and sea, the stars and planets, of demons and angels, and even the Master of the Cosmos. But I am speaking of God. There are others, I'm sure, but only one God who created even great Zeus and Rama. Yet travel is like philosophy: a few years of it will perk the eye to differences, which you shall be able to notice with ease. Yet living as I have, travelling to lonely lands and through a thousand metropolises and hidden woods, you rather see the similarities. All becomes one, and God too becomes one. Not the sum of all those gods here, but beyond them, a being few philosophers have truly grasped. He has always been one, but he is severed in our minds. So it is up to us to piece him back together. If our souls possess a clarity beyond what our mortal nature can bestow, we shall see him. ~ Mary-Jean Harris

Some people walk into our lives to touch our hearts and others to touch our soul! ~ Avijeet Das

To deny this is to deny our own heritage, our own spirit, and our own souls. ~ John Denver

And he made love to her, offering his body in both tenderness and anger, unsure which was the best way to pass her bits of his soul so that she could patch her own with it ~ Jodi Picoult

Maybe his quietness masked a great and boiling soul. ~ Jennifer Donnelly

How wearisom
Eternity so spent in worship paid
To whom we hate. Let us not then pursue
By force impossible, by leave obtain'd
Unacceptable, though in Heav'n, our state
Of splendid vassalage, but rather seek
Our own good from our selves, and from our own
Live to our selves, though in this vast recess,
Free, and to none accountable, preferring
Hard liberty before the easie yoke
Of servile Pomp ~ John Milton

The body, whether it be human, mammal or insect, is nothing more than a machine designed as a vehicle intended to be used by the "soul." The brain, is perfected engineering inspired by divinity. Therefore, the world we see and touch is just an illusion because life and death are one in the same; essentially, we are heaven, eternal and ever lasting. ~ Alejandro C. Estrada

Just as the heart becomes carefree in a place of green, growing plants, goodwill and kindness are born when our souls enter happiness. ~ Rumi

I look into your eyes and I'm sure that some divine artist dipped her brush in the same soul and used it to paint us both. ~ Cristen Rodgers

Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself it's own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it. ~ Niels Bohr

Entertainment is the greatest socializing force in the world. ~ Daniel Beaty

I used to write poetry when I was younger," Jess said. She had kept a notebook by her bed, in case some line or image came to her in her dreams, but she had always been a sound sleeper, and no Xanadus or nightingales woke her. She read Coleridge or Keats and felt that they had covered the great subjects so well that she had nothing to add about beauty, or immortality of the soul. "Now I just read."
She spoke cheerfully, without a hint of wistfulness. She was indignant sometimes, but never wistful. Opinionated, but still hopeful in her opinions. Oh, Jess, George thought, no one has hurt you yet. ~ Allegra Goodman

Maggie, in her brown frock, with her eyes reddened and her heavy hair pushed back, looking from the bed where her father lay to the dull walls of this sad chamber which was the centre of her world, was a creature full of eager, passionate longings for all that was beautiful and glad; thirsty for all knowledge; with an ear straining after dreamy music that died away and would not come near to her; with a blind, unconscious yearning for something that would link together the wonderful impressions of this mysterious life, and give her soul a sense of home in it. No wonder, when there is this contrast between the outward and the inward, that painful collisions come of it. ~ George Eliot

Seeing is believing, and if an American success is to count for anything in the world it must be clothed in the raiment of property. As often as not it isn't the money itself that means anything; it is the use of money as the currency of the soul. ~ Lewis H. Lapham

People think of songwriting as a very personal thing: A guy gets up there with an acoustic guitar and he sings his heart out, bares his soul. ~ Craig Finn

Soul, what have I to do with you? ~ Olive Schreiner

Terrorism has once again shown it is prepared deliberately to stop at nothing in creating human victims. An end must be put to this. As never before, it is vital to unite forces of the entire world community against terror. ~ Vladimir Putin

Love, even of the most ardent and soul-destroying kind, is never caught by the lens of the camera. ~ William Maxwell

Naturally, I have no heroes: I am my heroes. I am my brothers and sisters. I feel myself joined by the soul with all beauty. My heart sings with every brave endeavour. With the strange wings of impossible butterflies, with every rock that breathes life into the world. I stand shoulder to shoulder with all denouncers of meanness. I honour spirit and faith and uphold the glorious amateur. I'm in love with desperate men with desperate hands, walking in second-hand shoes searching for God and hearing God and hating God. I'm a desperate man, buckled with fear, I am a desperate man who demands to be listened to, who demands to connect. I'm a desperate man who denounces the dullness of money and status. I'm a desperate man who will not bow down to accolade or success. I'm a desperate man who loves the simplicity of painting and hates galleries and white walls and the dealers in art. Who loves unreasonableness and hotheadedness, who loves contradiction, hates publishing houses and also I am Vincent Van Gogh, Hiroshige and every living artist who dares to draw God on this planet. ~ Billy Childish

Uncover your life's purpose, not just armed with your faith - but, in the company of your Soul. ~ Eleesha

Surely words are just the background music when passion pounces on a soul. ~ Andrew Sean Greer

We godless lack that certainty, and we know the world is a complex place that requires compromise and is not ruled by a moral force - virtue is subject to negotiation, and is found in working together with others to find mutually satisfactory solutions. Good is not absolute, it is an emergent property that arises from successful networks of individuals. It is also something that is measured by evidence: we look at the good that people do, not the promises that they make and never keep, or the lies that dovetail nicely into dogma. Competence is a virtue. Intent is meaningless without action. ~ PZ Myers

There is that in the soul of man which must respond to the highest in virtue. It may not respond at once. Human nature can easily be over-faced by examples too remote and austere. Moreover, human nature can easily deny God because the whole race has long been in rebellion against Him. Yet there is that in human nature which calls out to the supreme examples of virtue: owns, as it were, the intention of God who made it, and feels the unmistakable homesickness of the soul. ~ Bill Vaughan