The Noble Soul

“For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?”

Mark 8:36, The Holy Bible, DRV

“The Church teaches that every spiritual soul is created immediately by God - it is not "produced" by the parents - and also that it is immortal: it does not perish when it separates from the body at death, and it will be reunited with the body at the final Resurrection.

Sometimes the soul is distinguished from the spirit: St. Paul for instance prays that God may sanctify his people "wholly", with "spirit and soul and body" kept sound and blameless at the Lord's coming.  The Church teaches that this distinction does not introduce a duality into the soul.  "Spirit" signifies that from creation man is ordered to a supernatural end and that his soul can gratuitously be raised beyond all it deserves to communion with God.

The spiritual tradition of the Church also emphasizes the heart, in the biblical sense of the depths of one's being, where the person decides for or against God.”

Catechism of the Catholic Church, #366-#368

“And thou shalt love the Lord thy God, with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind, and with thy whole strength. This is the first commandment.”

Mark 12:3o, The Holy Bible, DRV

“Where there is no knowledge of the soul, there is no good: and he that is hasty with his feet shall stumble.”

Proverbs 19:2, The Holy Bible, DRV

“For wisdom will not enter into a malicious soul, nor dwell in a body subject to sins.”

Wisdom 1:4, The Holy Bible, DRV

“For thy soul be not ashamed to say the truth.”

Ecclesiasticus 4:24, The Holy Bible, DRV

“The eye of the envious is wicked: and he turneth away his face, and despiseth his own soul.  The eye of the covetous man is insatiable in his portion of iniquity: he will not be satisfied till he consume his own soul, drying it up.”

Ecclesiasticus 14:8-9, The Holy Bible, DRV

“The soul of him that feareth the Lord is blessed.”

Ecclesiasticus 34:17, The Holy Bible, DRV