It's important to distinguish the soul from the spirit, or will, because the will or the heart or the spirit is the executive center of the self.
Dallas WillardYour mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.
Dallas WillardYou really can't justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
Dallas WillardWe don't save our soul and leave our emotions and our feelings and our body and all the rest of it out. That's just a way of talking that emphasizes the soul is so fundamental that we can, in some cases, treat it as the whole person because it actually is the thing that integrates all of these aspects of the self and makes them work together. Now, I don't think we can find a passage in the Bible that says that. We have to read and study how it addresses the soul, and we then see that it is the deepest, most vital part of the human self.
Dallas Willard