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

In the evening exhortation, which it had been the Superior's custom to add to the prayers of the vesper-hour, he dwelt with a terrible and ghastly eloquence on the loss of the soul.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 by Various

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

Neither is he immoderately dejected in the present adversities that may befall him; but the loss of the soul grieves him to his very heart, and he counts it worthy of long lamentation.

From True Christianity by Arndt, Johann

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