loss of the soul

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He noticed the Day-Glo, photo-pro, three-to-the-beach type of surfing taking center stage and the loss of the soul of the sport he grew up in.

From Time Magazine Archive

This is what is called transformation, and loss of the soul in God.

From Letters of Madam Guyon by Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte

I venture to think the text implies, that in the very attempt to 'gain the whole world,' the loss of the soul is involved.

From God's Good Man by Corelli, Marie

But, Jack, what are poverty and shame, bad as they are, in comparison with the loss of the soul?

From Select Temperance Tracts by American Tract Society

For what is the loss of opportunity but the loss of the soul? and the conscious loss of opportunity may go on for a lifetime, a protracted martyrdom.

From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various