Henry Van Dyke Soul Quotations

As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.

Courage is the standing army of the soul which keeps it from conquest, pillage, and slavery.

Subjection to fear is weakness, bondage, feverish unrest. To be afraid is to have no soul that we can call our own; it is to be at the beck and call of alien powers, to be chained and driven and tormented; it is to lose the life itself in the anxious care to keep it.

One truly affectionate soul in a family will evert a sweetening and harmonizing influence upon all its members.

Faith is an adventure; it is the courage of the soul to face the unknown. But that courage springs from the hope and confidence of the soul that its adventure will succeed.

Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.