John Lancaster Spalding Soul Quotations

We may avoid much disappointment and bitterness of soul by learning to understand how little necessary to our joy and peace are the things the multitude most desire and seek.

Language should be pure, noble and graceful, as the body should be so: for both are vestures of the Soul.

The first requisite of a gentleman is to be true, brave and noble, and to be therefore a rebuke and scandal to venal and vulgar souls.

Be watchful lest thou lose the power of desiring and loving what appeals to the soul this is the miser's curse this the chain and ball the sensualist drags.

If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.