Spirit Quotes

To pursue science is not to disparage the things of the spirit. In fact, to pursue science rightly is to furnish the framework on which the spirit may rise.

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

To the young members of the Church, I promise that if you will listen, you will feel the Spirit well up within you. The Lord will tell you what He wants you to do with your life.

The books the Holy Spirit is writing are living, and every soul a volume in which the divine author makes a true revelation of his word, explaining it to every heart, unfolding it in every moment.

Having no human companion I felt a spirit of comradeship for the objects of nature around me. In my childish way I communed with these as with my own soul; they became the sharers of my confidence.

As a tender and loving friend is grieved at the unkindness of his friend... so is it with this tender and loving Spirit, who hath chosen our hearts for a habitation to dwell in.

Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.

The critical spirit never knows when to stop meddling.

[Chicago]: This vicious, stinking zoo, this mean-grinning, mace-smelling boneyard of a city: an elegant rockpile of a monument to everything cruel and stupid and corrupt in the human spirit.

Hidden in the hollow Of His blessed hand, Never foe can follow, Never traitor stand; Not a surge of worry, Not a shade of care, Not a blast of hurry Touch the Spirit there.

A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.

Danger was the grindstone on which the swordsman whetted his spirit. Enemies were teachers in disguise.

To strive endlessly to stir the venturesome spirit that moves you to follow a rainbow to its end... and thus make your travel dreams come true.

Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more.

True Christianity is to manifest genuinely Christ-like behavior by dependence on the working of the Spirit of God within.

An argument may remove doubt, but only the Holy Spirit can convict of truth.

I've taken up the Bible again, somewhat in the spirit of W.C. Fields - looking for loopholes.

Our Vocation is full of joy and peace in the Holy Spirit.

Catharsis is about cleansing and healing at one and the same time - healing memories and attitudes, healing the spirit and the heart.

I dance for no reason, for reasons you can't dance, Call me an activist of intellectualized circumstance You can't learn my steps until you unlearn your thoughts Spirit, soul, can't be store-bought.

A Woman in Harmony with her Spirit is like a river flowing.

We dance to fall in love with the spirit in all things, to wipe out memory or transform it into moves that nobody else can make because they didn’t live it.

It seems odd, that certain men who talk so much of what the Holy Spirit reveals to themselves, should think so little of what he has revealed to others.

The human spirit fails, except when the Holy Spirit fills.

We wish to fill our culture once more with the spirit of Christianity - but not only in theory.

The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.

God not only wants to break the outer man...He wants our spirit and our soul...our inner man and outer man to be separated from each other.

Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.

All the powers of soul and body,memory, understanding, and will, interior and exterior senses, thedesires of spirit and of sense, all workin and by love.

The body is the womb of the soul, a begging bowl for spirit.

A beautiful person is someone who stays true to themselves and their spirit; someone who is self-confident and can make you smile.

I bought abandon dearAnd sold all piety for pleasure.My own free spirit I have followed,And never will I give up lust.

The mark of community is not the absence of conflict. It's the presence of a reconciling spirit.

I've been immersed in it too long. My spirit is wobbly and my mind is confused. The hurt has become too great.

Today on planet Earth, may you experience the wonder and beauty of yourself as Abba’s Child and temple of the Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ

One might say that where Religion becomes artificial, it is reserved for Art to save the spirit of religion.

In the heart of man, there is a constant conflict between the flesh and the spirit.

But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a fence around it and thinking that this will help it survive.

The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

If you have truly been born again, it was the Holy Spirit who convicted you of sin and drew you into a relationship with Jesus.

I believe there are people out there that just have a warrior spirit, whether it's fighting or something, they've got to do it. It's hard to identify with me; it's just something I do.

And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.

From a sensitive woman's heart springs the happiness of mankind, and from the kindness of her noble spirit comes mankind's affection.

Prayer means lovingly contemplating the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, allowing our hearts to be enkindled to praise and adore the love and omnipotence of the most blessed Trinity.

Like billowing clouds, Like the incessant gurgle of the brook The longing of the spirit can never be stilled.

A real medicine can only exist when it penetrates into a knowledge which embraces the human being in respect to body, soul and spirit.

You might as well try to hear without ears or breathe without lungs, as to try to live a Christian life without the Spirit of God in your heart.

The same spirit runs through everything I do.