George Herbert - Soul Quotes

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Love bade me welcome: yet my soul drew back,
Guilty of dust and sin.
But quick-eyed Love, observing me grow slack
From my first entrance in,
Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning,
If I lacked any thing.

George Herbert
By all means use sometimes to be alone.
Salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear.

George Herbert
Church-bells beyond the stars heard, the soul's blood,
The land of spices; something understood.

George Herbert
It (my book) is a picture of the many spiritual conflicts that have passed between God and my soul, before I could subject mine to the will of Jesus, my Master, in whose service I have now found perfect freedom.

George Herbert
Only a sweet and virtuous soul,
Like seasoned timber, never gives;
But though the whole world turn to coal,
Then chiefly lives.

George Herbert
The fineness which a hymn or psalm affords
If when the soul unto the lines accords.

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God's breath in man returning to his birth, The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage,

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Sorrow was all my soul; I scarce believed, Till grief did tell me roundly, that I lived.

George Herbert
Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse thy soul; mark the decay And growth of it; if, with thy watch, that too Be down then winde up both; since we shall be Most surely judg'd, make thy accounts agree.

George Herbert