Pentecost Sunday

Brevity is the soul of lingerie. - Dorothy Parker

Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind. - Mason Cooley

Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place. - Rumi

Faith is the gaze of a soul upon a saving God. - A.W. Tozer

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. - Socrates

Aging wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul. - Douglas MacArthur

When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead! - John G Whittier

Hope is medicine for a soul that's sick and tired. - Eric Swensson

With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't be afraid to pray big prayers, we serve a big God. - Unknown

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates. - Oscar Wilde

Where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith. - Robert Brault

Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be men of courage; be strong. - Bible

Kind hearts are more than coronets
An simple faith than Norman blood. - Alfred Tennyson

You'll never get to a person's soul until you understand their hurts. - Ravi Zacharias

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. - George Bernard Shaw

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul. - Democritus

We failed, but in the good providence of God, apparent failure often proves a blessing. - Robert E Lee

Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul. - Ezra T Benson

may I be I is the only prayer - not may I be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong. - e e cummings

The further the soul advances, the greater are the adversaries against which it must contend. - Evagrius of Pontus

Madness is loving the unsolvable puzzle of your soul and replacing the lost pieces with my own. - Shannon L. Alder

Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace, and your soul in the joy of Christ. - Thomas Merton

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. - Soren Kierkegaard

That the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from heaven. - Hideki Tojo

As Man alone, Jesus could not have saved us; As God alone, He would not; Made flesh, He could and did. - Malcolm Muggeridge

Since I got to 80, I've started reading the Bible a lot more. It's kind of like cramming for my finals. - Vincent Watson

Prayer is not about letting God know your will; it's about completely submitting to him. You die to yourself. - Mark Batterson

Forgiveness isn't just a blessing you deliver to another human being. Forgiveness is also a gift you give yourself. - Robin S Sharma

Preaching is not the art of making a sermon and delivering it. Preaching is the art of making a preacher and delivering him. - Bishop Quayle

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most? - Mark Twain

Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion. - Unknown

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. - Helen Keller

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep. - Aldous Huxley

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. - Francis of Assisi

The important thing is to strive towards a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that, to break a man's spirit, is devil's work. - George Bernard Shaw

Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within. - Claudia Johnson

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. - Norman Vincent Peale

The spirit is smothered, as it were, by ignorance, but so soon as ignorance is destroyed, spirit shines forth, like the sun when released from clouds. - Sankara