Spirit Quotes

A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of angelic light

For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine.

A party spirit betrays the greatest men to act as meanly as the vulgar herd.

Dignity is more important to the human spirit than wealth.

I have a lot to be grateful for. I really do kind of get into the holiday spirit and try to find something to be grateful for anyway but this is the time of year so.

I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit in people.

In my life I find that memories of the spirit linger and sweeten long after memories of the brain have faded.

How poor a guide enthusiasm is when it is not informed with the mind and spirit of God.

Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance.

The way you come to fully appreciate the infusion of the Spirit is to more and more come fully into the moment, where this moment is enough.

The spirit cannot endure the body when overfed, but, if underfed, the body cannot endure the spirit.

There are more people living in Lower Manhattan now than before the terrorist attacks. That's faith for you. There's such a strong spirit here.

History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards some known or unknown objective.

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

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.

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.

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

A generous spirit prefers that his country should be poor, and weak, and of no account, but free, rather than powerful, prosperous, and enslaved.

What a man thinks in his spirit in the world, that he does after his departure from the world when he becomes a spirit.

Man is in reality a spiritual being and only when he lives in the spirit is he truly happy.

How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.

The spirit does not need a body, but the body needs spirit, or it cannot live. The soul can live without a body, but the body without a soul dies

Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped to produce.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

Mind is locked in matter like the spirit Ariel in a cloven pine. Like Ariel, men struggle to escape the drag of the matter they inhabit, yet it is the spirit that they fear.

The Holy Spirit said I was blessed and was going to touch hearts everywhere.

A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.

poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge

Spirituality, without the Holy Spirit, is demonic.

A mind sourced in Spirit is a river of immeasurable power and life-giving goodness.

The field (which is what spirit is, a field of pure potentiality) is a continuum of all possible energy and information states that will subsequently manifest themselves as space-time events.

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical. . . . Any man who for one moment abandons or suspends the questioning spirit has for that moment betrayed humanity.

Artists create out of a sense of desolation. The spirit of creation is a excruciating, intricate exploration from within the soul.

I want to be indifferent to vengeance. It's degrading. Not having a spirit of vengeance protects me, internally.

I don't know about Heaven or Hell, but I do know that we are visited all the time by the spirits of those who affected us in life.

There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit.

Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee.

Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine, In one spirit meet and mingle-Why not I with thine?

Let us live so we do not regret years of inertia and ignorance, so when we die we can say all of our energy was dedicated to the noble liberation of the human mind and spirit, beginning with my own.

Irony is the cultivation of the spirit and therefore follows next after immediacy; then comes the ethicist, then the humourist, then the religious person.

Get your sense of outrage back, and your sense of defiance and spirit back, and try to put these pieces together and confront the excesses of empire at every turn.

Spend as much time as possible, with body and with spirit in God's out-of-doors.

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life.

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things, they heed not thy vexations

Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for personal views-then the world will be governed.

Though we as Christians are like Christ, having the first fruits of the spirit, yet we are unlike him, having the remainders of the flesh.

Yoga has brought me closer to myself. It's helped me realize the interconnectedness of the mind, body and spirit, in the Buddhist sense of the word.

One of our problems today is that we are not well acquainted with the literature of the spirit. We re interested in the news of the day and the problems of the hour.

Color is like food for the spirit - plus it's not addictive or fattening.

The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.