“Abbot Zerchi smiled thinly. 'You don't have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
Ch 27
A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959), Fiat Voluntas Tua
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American fiction writer 1923–1996Related quotes
“You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.”
Commonly attributed to Mere Christianity, where it is not found. Earliest reference seems to be an unsourced attribution to George MacDonald in an 1892 issue of the Quaker periodical The British Friend.
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Variant: You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.
“My smile is my way of saying: "You can destroy my body, but not my soul.”
Source: Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), Our fate
“We don't have a soul. We are a soul. We have a body."
George Macdonald, 1892”
“If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul.”
From an interview published at JamBase.com http://www.JamBase.com
“You can kill my body, but you can't kill my soul. My soul will live forever!”
Last words, quoted in Hugh Pearsons (1994) The Shadow of the Panther, p. 315
