In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.
The soul preserves beauty.
Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses to the body, inasmuch as the body of the man is capable of the same obedience to the will of God as the soul.
In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul possesses everything by grace which God possesses by nature.
Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
The 'soul' is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.
Ultimately, the soul will receive either judgment or mercy through Christ.
The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.
As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.