No man in his wits can seriously think that his own soul hath existed from all eternity.
-- Richard Bentley
And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
-- Matthew 10:28
The soul is immortal and capable of enduring all extremes of good and evil.
-- Plato, Republic, X, 621c
If anyone asserts the fabulous pre-existence of souls, and shall assert the monstrous restoration which follows from it: let him be anathema.
-- Second Council of Constantinople, A.D. 553
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
-- Jeremiah 1:5
