Thomas Fuller: Quotes about the soul

Thomas Fuller was English churchman and historian. Explore interesting quotes on soul.

Thomas Fuller: 70 quotes5 likes

“He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager soul, biting for anger at the clog of his body, desired to fret a passage through it.”

Thomas Fuller

Life of the Duke of Alva (1642). Compare: "A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy-body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay", John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, part i. line 156.

“Heat of passion makes our souls to chap, and the devil creeps in at the crannies.”

Thomas Fuller

Of Anger.
The Holy State and the Profane State (1642)

“To smell to a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body; no less are thoughts of mortality cordial to the soul.”

Thomas Fuller

The Virtuous Lady.
The Holy State and the Profane State (1642)

“Drawing near her death, she sent most pious thoughts as harbingers to heaven; and her soul saw a glimpse of happiness through the chinks of her sickness-broken body.”

Thomas Fuller

Life of Monica (1642).

“Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.”

Thomas Fuller

Of Anger.
The Holy State and the Profane State (1642)

“He will make a strange combustion in the state of his soul, who at the landing of every cockboat sets the beacons on fire.”

Thomas Fuller

Of Anger.
The Holy State and the Profane State (1642)