Spirit Quotes

The Holy Spirit truly transforms us. With our cooperation, he also wants to transform the world we live in.

[I]f the gentleness of your spirit needs a dash of vinegar, borrow a little from Our Lord's spirit. O Mademoiselle, how well He knew how to find a bittersweet remark when it is needed!

Paper money will invariably operate in the body of politics as spirit liquors on the human body. They prey on the vitals and ultimately destroy them

If we rely on the Holy Spirit, we shall find that our prayers become more and more inarticulate; and when they are inarticulate, reverence grows deeper and deeper.

The kingdom of God is peace in the Holy Spirit; He will reign in you if your heart is at peace. So, be at peace, Mademoiselle, and you will honor in a sovereign way the God of peace and love.

Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the artist to new heights if it does not cripple him or her.

We yearn, as spirit children of our Heavenly Father, for that joy which we once had with Him in the life before this one. His desire is to grant us that sacred wish for unity out of His love for us.

I had always been a free spirit, and always gotten what I wanted.

War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of the human spirit.

Do no dishonor to the earth lest you dishonor the spirit of man.

History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times a cheer a downcast spirit.

Superstitions are all materialism, because they are all based on the consciousness of body, body, body. No spirit there. Spirit has no superstitions - it is beyond the vain desires of the body.

Man stands in materialism; you and I are materialists. Our talking about God and Spirit is good; but it is simply the vogue in our society to talk thus: we have learnt it parrot-like and repeat it.

Everything is the same spirit watching itself through the eyes of different observers.

We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.

Jesus, deliver me from the spirit of witchcraft!

The real spirit of Christmas lies in the life and mission of the Master.

There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple. If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things will strive to dwell with't

As strenuous challenge or contemplative retreat, the parks and other units of the national lands offer welcome respite from the world, a safety valve for body and spirit.

Sister, mother And spirit of the river, spirit of the sea, Suffer me not to be separated And let my cry come unto Thee.

Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.

When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect.

The United States has grown into a remarkable nation specifically because of our independent spirit and free market.

The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we had been endowed with.

The questioning spirit is the rebellious spirit. A rebellion is always either a cloak to hide a prince, or the swaddling wrapper of a new rule.

God is with me. Jesus is near. The Spirit is greater than my fear.

I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a Gibson guitar.

Only some radical change can divert the downward course of my spirit, some startling new place or people to arrest the drift, the drag.

But I think the spirit of man is a good adversary

Alchemy is really the secret tradition of the redemption of spirit from matter.

I have inherited a belief in community, the promise that a gathering of the spirit can both create and change culture. In the desert, change is nurtured even in stone by wind, by water, through time.

Precious Saviour! come in spirit, and lay Thy strong, gentle grasp of love on our dear boys and girls, and keep these our lambs from the fangs of the wolf.

Life is a great adventure…accept it in such a spirit.

Our God, the Great Spirit, seems also to have forsaken us. Your God makes your people wax stronger every day. Soon they will fill all the land.

What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from great loneliness of spirit

We let a river shower its banks with a spirit that invades the people living there, and we protect that river, knowing that without its blessings the people have no source of soul.

A lover of Jesus and of the truth can lift himself above himself in spirit.

To the Everlasting Father, And the Son who made us free And the Spirit, God proceeding From them Each eternally, Be salvation, honour, blessing, Might and endless majesty.

The dark in soul see in the universe their own shadow; the shattered spirit can only reflect external beauty in form as untrue and broken as itself.

Find your spirit, and no challenge will keep you from achieving your goals.

Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.

As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body

"The Holy Spirit . . . wants to flow through us and realize all these wonderful possibilities in the world - if we only open ourselves and allow it to happen."

Though the ancients were ignorant of the principles of Christianity there were in them the germs of its spirit.

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit.

Change is not always progress... A fever of newness has everywhere been confused with the spirit of progress.

When your spirit is alive, when somebody has got a strong spirit, they could be on the verge of death physically, and they'll leak out more life.

Technology is an extension of our hands and our feet, not our spirit.