Spirit Quotes

Finished things cease to be a shelter for the spirit; but work in progress is a delight.

Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.

Prayer is a rising up and a drawing near to God in mind and in heart, and in spirit.

The spirit of the First Amendment has been effectively repealed for conservative speech by a censorious, accusatory mob.

But the dream is never forgotten, only put aside and never out of reach: Where once the dream connected boys with the world of men, now it reconnects men with the spirit of boys.

Integration is nothing but your complete connection with your spirit.

Satan is pure spirit. He often appears as something else, to mislead. He appeared to Padre Pio as Jesus, to frighten him. He sometimes appears as a raging animal.

The Spirit never makes men the instruments of converting others until they feel that they cannot do it themselves; that their skill in argument, in persuasion, in management, avails nothing.

Poverty is mean and degrading to the human spirit, whereas a life of conscious simplicity can have both a beauty and a functional integrity that elevates the human spirit.

When the great promise of the Spirit was fulfilled on the day of Pentecost, it was fulfilled not in reference to the apostles only.

In the course of our eternal existence, we spend infinitely more time in the spirit world on the other side than we spend in the human world on earth.

Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.

The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.

The Spirit must therefore first take hold of us before we can live in Christ, and when he doth so, then we are enabled to exert that vital act of faith, whereby we receive Christ.

No mean woman can cook well. It calls for a generous spirit, a light hand, and a large heart.

Every time we open the Bible, let's stop and pray, whether for fifteen seconds or fifteen minutes, asking the Spirit to teach us. When I read the Bible, I want God to talk to my soul.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.

The supreme harmony of the cosmos is selected in the harmony of the spirit.

I try to put the same spirit into that that I put into any other music endeavor I'm involved in.

Never yet was a nation born that did not begin in the spirit, pass to the heart and the mind, and then take an outer form in the world of men.

We are what we are, the spirit afterwards, but first the touch.

To prevent disease or to cure it, the power of Truth, of divine Spirit, must break down the dream of the material senses.

Emerge gently from matter into Spirit.

To deny this is to deny our own heritage, our own spirit, and our own souls.

All the hope of our ministry lies in the Spirit of God operating on the spirits of men.

It is easy to be a slave to the letter, and difficult to enter into the spirit; easy to obey a number of outward rules, difficult to enter intelligently and self-sacrificingly into the will of God.

Now, what is Jesus Christ? The fruit of the spirit is a good example. Jesus is total love, total joy, total peace, total patient, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, and self-control.

Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things.

Most of us, like the assembly line worker, have jobs that are too small for our spirit. Jobs are not big enough for people.

Goodness is generous and diffusive; it is largeness of mind, and sweetness of temper,--balsam in the blood, and justice sublimated to a richer spirit.

Fasting keeps you sensitive to His (God) Spirit, enabling you to live holy.

Christ teaches by the Spirit of wisdom in the heart, opening the understanding to the Spirit of revelation in the word.

Your spirit lives on in your work. YOU decide what manner of work that will be.

The truth which can be actualized after Self Realization is that you are not this body, this mind, this conditioning from the past, this ego, these emotions, but that you are the pure spirit.

The most important advance in the next fifty years will be in the realm of the spiritual - dealing with the spirit of thought.

Nine times out of 10, criticism is a defense mechanism. We criticize in others what we don't like in ourselves.

Spiritual warfare is the unseen battle God wages on your behalf.

Only the ego resists egos. The spirit may notice egos, but sees beyond them and does not engage with them.

War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.

The spirit of the law is the least of the things we're prepared to violate.

The sky over Patusan was blood-red, immense, streaming like an open vein. An enormous sun nestled crimson amongst the treetops, and the forest below had a black and forbidding face.

The human spirit lives on creativity and dies in conformity and routine.

Joyful, joyful, joyful, as only dogs know how to be happy with only the autonomy of their shameless spirit.

Dignity is more important to the human spirit than wealth.

If you want to know the reality, you have to become the spirit.

The simple fact is that the World is too busy to give the Holy Spirit a chance to enter in.

Only great pain is, as the teacher of great suspicion, the ultimate liberator of the spirit...I doubt whether such pain improves us-but I do know it deepens us.

Illusions... are simple facts, but they have been created by the mind, by the spirit, and they are one of the justifications of the new spatial configuration.

This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.

It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward.