Nathaniel Culverwell quotes

“The body,-that is dust; the soul,-it is a bud of eternity.”
-- Nathaniel Culverwell

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“See, then, how powerful religion is; it commands the heart, it commands the vitals. Morality,--that comes with a pruning-knife, and cuts off all sproutings, all wild luxuriances; but religion lays the axe to the root of the tree. Morality looks that the skin of the apple be fair; but religion searcheth to the very core.”
-- Nathaniel Culverwell

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“Besides the guilt of sin and the power of sin, there is the stain of sin.”
-- Nathaniel Culverwell

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“Much of our ignorance is of ourselves. Our eyes are full of dust. Prejudice blinds us.”

Source : Abraham Coles (1885). “The Life and Teachings of Our Lord in Verse: Being a Complete Harmonized Exposition of the Four Gospels, with Original Notes Textual Index, Etc. Two Volumes in One, Vol. 1 -- The Evangel (second Edition), Vol. 2 -- The Light of the World”

“But when the dust has drunk the blood of men, no resurrection comes for one who's dead.”

“The soul should be examined in the light of other souls.”

“There, by the starlit fences The wanderer halts and hears My soul that lingers sighing About the glimmering weirs.”

“I held his gaze. I could see the storm in his eyes. I knew he was confused. I could see the fear. Then there was the love. I saw it. The fierceness in his eyes. I believed it. I could see it clearly. But it was too late now. The love wasn't enough. Everyone always said that love was enough. It wasn't. Not when your soul was shattered.”

“When a soul is created, so is its mate. In every lifetime those souls find each other. They complete the other's destiny.”

“Wisdom is to the soul as food is to the body.”

“Dance in the body you have.”

“Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.”

Source : "My 12 pairs of legs". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February, 2009.

“The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body's normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.”