Spirit Quotes
Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they are even encouraged in many cases. Yet they are lethal to the spirit.
That soul is dead to which the Spirit of Christ is not given in the work of regeneration; and all its works are dead works.
The earth I tread on is not a dead inert mass. It is a body, has a spirit; is organic and fluid to the influence of its spirit and to whatever particle of the spirit is in me.
Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.
The illusion holds power over you when you are not able to remember that you are a powerful spirit that has taken on the physical experience for the purpose of learning.
the way i see it, hard times aren't only about money, or drought, or dust. hard times are about losing spirit, and hope, and what happens when dreams dry up.
Prison does strange things to men. Although its purpose is to break the free spirit of a man, in many cases it just adds fuel to the fire that has never been and will never be extinguished.
He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.
The function of art is to free the spirit of man and to invigorate and enlarge his vision.
Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.
The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.
Usefulness! It is not a fascinating word, and the quality is not one of which the aspiring spirit can dream o' nights, yet on the stage it is the first thing to aim at.
Those who move forward "with a" happy spirit will find that things alwas work out.
Certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.
I have been baptized twice, once in water, once in flame. I will carry the fire of the holy spirit inside until I stand before my Lord for judgement.
Pray to be perfect, though material leaven Forbid the spirit so on earth to be; But if for any wish thou darest not pray, Then pray to God to cast that wish away.
In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.
Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.
In the spirit of the Olympic Games, they traditionally ask that all fighting and warfare around the world stop. So, there's hope for a ceasefire within the Jackson family.
To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self.
The same disappointments in life will chasten and refine one man's spirit, embitter another's.
Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.
To me the Olympic spirit embodies the magic of competition, hard work and coming to a point in your career when you're around the best athletes in the world, and having the whole world watching.
Obviously, the music and lyrics are in me, but if I let myself get in my own way, I do. I empty out and let it come, and then the music spirits take over.
Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.
You will find angling to be like the virtue of humanity, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of blessing attending upon it.
I have consecrated my life to changing matter into spirit with the hope of someday seeing it all.
By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit.
Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.
Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.
Sì is my tribute to modern femininity, an irresistible combination of grace, strength and independent spirit.
The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty
Where the most beautiful wild flowers grow, there mans spirit is fed and poets grow.
Death fixes forever the relation existing between the departed spirit and the survivors upon earth.
No, no, I'm sure, My restless spirit never could endure To brood so long upon one luxury, Unless it did, though fearfully, espy A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.
Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude.
