The philosophy of six thousand years has not searched the chambers and magazines of the soul. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?  Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?  (Mark 8:36-37) 
 
He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.  -Douglas Adams


As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants for Thee, O God.  My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.   (Psalm 42:1-2)
 
If we?re not bewildered by the mysteries of the soul, we?re not thinking clearly, to paraphrase the scrawling on subway walls.  For the soul?s mysteries compress the most profound mythic questions that have always intrigued human beings:  Where do we come from?  Why are we here?  Where do we go when we die? 
-Phil Cousineau in Soul: An Archaeology
 
Thou hast made us for thyself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in thee. -St. Augustine, Confessions
 
Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy, and eat!  Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.  Why spend your money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy?  Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of fare.  Give ear and come to me; hear me, that your soul may live. 
(Isaiah 55:1-3a) 
   
Do not be afraid of those who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul.  Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.   (Matthew 10:28)
 
Where can we find purpose and meaning in life?  No assembly line is going to manufacture a widget that brings purpose into our lives.  Education isn?t going to make it happen.  The government can?t do it.  No piece of legislation or law will ever be passed that will address the state of my soul.  It?s as if we have finally realized that our deepest needs are spiritual in nature. -James Emery White, A Search for the Spiritual
 
Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.  Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.  For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.    (Matthew 11:28-29)
 
What you will find in your heart is not heaven, but a picture of heaven, a silhouette of heaven, a heaven-shaped shadow, a longing unsatisfiable by anything on earth.  -Peter Kreeft in Heaven: The Heart?s Deepest Longing
 
Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.  (I Peter 1:8-9)
 
If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it you don?t feel at home there?  -C.S. Lewis
 
He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.   (Ecclesiastes 3:11)
 
We have a homing instinct, a ?home detector?, and it doesn?t ring for earth.  That?s why nearly every society in history except our own instinctively believes in life after death. 
Peter Kreeft in Heaven: The Heart?s Deepest Longing, p. 66

Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.   (Proverbs 4:23)
 
All those who write either explicitly or by insinuation against the dignity, freedom, and immortality of the human soul, may so far forth be justly said to unhinge the principles of morality, and destroy the means of making men reasonably virtuous. -George Berkeley (1685-1753)
 
Jesus replied: ?Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.?  This is the first and greatest commandment." (Matthew 22:37-38)  

 
The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.He makes me lie down in green pastures,
he leads me beside still waters,
he restoreth my soul.  (Psalm 23:1-3)
 
Praise the Lord, O my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name.
Praise the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits ?  (Psalm 103:1-2)