Spirit Quotes

I believe in ghosts and spirits, and I believe that they can possess you.

Sustain a bright and joyful 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

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.

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.

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

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

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.

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.

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.

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.

His life oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.

Antichrist is the pope and the Turk [Muslim] together. A beast full of life must have a body and soul. The spirit or soul of Antichrist is the pope, his flesh or body the Turk.

Substance must emanate from spirit and is nothing else than the record of the spirit's conception of itself finding expression in space and time.

No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.

Without the emotion and willingness of Spirit, our music becomes dry and dusty—without life. Without doctrinal bones as a skeleton, the Body is not enfleshed in a healthy way.

An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime.

The self says, I am; The heart says, I am less; The spirit says, you are Nothing.

(I was) happily contended to be climbing the heights and the clouds by the brush method.. ...rendering the God-spirit in the mountains.

Have an attitude of gratidude and you will have more to be grateful for; have a complaining spirit and you will attract more to complain about.

But when I breath with the birds, The spirit of wrath becomes the spirit of blessings, And the dead begin from their dark to sing in my sleep.

In the quiet of this day may you know the greatness of your spirit and may your hopes fly on the wings of possibility.

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations, and resentments flit away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.

I can call spirits from the vasty deep.

The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself.

Let us worship the spirit in spirit, standing on spirit. Let the foundation be spirit, the middle spirit, the culmination spirit.

A religion without the Holy Ghost, though it had all the ordinances and all the doctrines of the New Testament, would certainly not be Christianity.

Science has, after all, made some colossal blunders in the past... Our current materialism and its rejection of the idea of a spirit or soul might be just another great falsity.

Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible and mars the mutable, and finally has come to look and not to buy.

To me, reason is as spiritual as anything else, the beauty of reason seems to me indelible and ineffable and numinous... the spirit is after all the same word we use to describe... essence

The idea of disembodied spirits is wholly unsupported by evidence, and I cannot accept it.

Never allow gradually the traffic to smother with noise and fog the flowering of the spirit.

Relationships are the Holy Spirit's laboratories in which He brings together people who have the maximal opportunity for mutual growth.

Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable ways.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.

The internal call is when the Spirit of God accompanies the outward administration of the Word to call a man from ignorance to knowledge, and a state of nature to a state of grace.

The work of God's Holy Spirit begins with bruising. In order to be saved, the fallow ground must be plowed up, the hard heart must be broken, the rock must be split apart.

It is useless, sisters, for you to attempt the duties of your exalted callings . . . without the constant companionship of the Spirit of God.

Literature is an inquiry into the deepest yearnings of the human spirit.

The spirit is what guides my life, and I'm humbly on my knees in thanks for guidance and direction every day. But God is not something to be preached, it's something to be lived.

Rome endured as long as there were Romans. America will endure as long as we remain American in spirit and in thought.

If we want to live healthy relationships, according to biblical standards, it is done in the fullness of the Spirit.

Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.