Spirit Quotes

The heavier our bodies, the higher our will, our spirit, rises above them.' 'The wearier we are, the more splendid the training.

Often I have struggled for days to get the image of the photograph to overlap the spirit I see. It is an awesome responsibility, and a lonely one.

Perhaps not all spirits are meant for this world, but they pass through anyway and change for the better those which are.

It is in between your thoughts, where you will discover your greatest FLOW from Spirit.

Let us celebrate the spirit of sport through the National Games

I love disappearing. That's what acting is. For me it's about putting on a persona, stepping into a pair of shoes. It's my face, but I'm using it as a tool for that spirit, that character.

It breaks my heart because there are some parts I know I would have the right spirit for, and I just don't get them because I have an accent.

I was very happy in Bombay. I was good at school. There was no reason to change anything. I suppose it must have been some spirit of adventure, of wanting to see the world.

[A]ll will be raised by the power of God, having spirit in their bodies, and not blood.

We should cultivate the serenity, because in the substance of sincerity germinate the most beautiful flowers of the Spirit.

I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits

Nothing can be more wounding to a spirit not ungenerous, than a generous forgiveness.

I bless the Lord that all our troubles come through Christ's fingers, and that He casteth sugar among them and casteth in some ounce withts of heaven and of the spirit of glory in our cup.

The spirit of poetry, like all other living powers, must of necessity circumscribe itself by rules, were it only to unite power with beauty.

Thou rising Sun! thou blue rejoicing Sky! Yea! every thing that is and will be free! Bear witness for me, whereso'er ye be, With what deep worship I have still adored The spirit of divinest Liberty.

I usually meditate and I call my spirit allies - anyone in the spirit world that I've got connections with. Even in the spirit world you need connections!

But you I never understood, Your spirit's secret hides like goldSunk in a Spanish galleon Ages ago in waters cold.

My library card. Every hurdle I've faced, I have researched my way over at a library. I'm grateful for that part of the American spirit that believes every citizen should have access to books.

Being Canadian and from Winnipeg, I have the spirit of a dreamer because of the cold, and being in the basement thinking of possibilities of where else I can be in the world, in a good way!

I just always felt like animals are spirit guides. I really like animals, I've always felt really drawn to them; they have this energy and magnetism.

Life ends with a snap of small bones, a head cracked from its stem, and a spirit unmoored.

As a scientist, you feel a sense of team spirit for your country but you also have a sense of team spirit for the international community.

And you know, these things don't last forever.' I know, Mandy. Nothing does.' That's the spirit.

The place one's in, though, doesn't make any contribution to peace of mind: it's the spirit that makes everything agreeable to oneself.

Spirit moves through all things.

The way I understand gifts is that the giver must make a sacrifice, create an uneven exchange, bring himself closer to the recipient, create change and do it all with the right spirit.

Jesus still has a really great reputation and the Spirit is still moving. I've got a lot of hope for a generation that takes Jesus seriously, once again.

We have been mentored from the very beginning by Catholic folks who are invigorating the best of the monastic spirit.

The monastic folks have the spirit of being in the world but not of the world, sort of peculiar people who have gone to the desert to live on the margins of the empire.

Without the presence of the Spirit, it is impossible to comprehend our personal mission or to have the reassurance that our course is right.

With the groups who asked me to join them - like the Rolling Stones, Spirit, David Bowie, and Blood, Sweat & Tears - I said no right away because I was way too much into my own thing.

As long as the house of The Holy Spirit remains a haven for criminals the reputation of the church will remain in ruins.

Nothin' taken for granted, just learn from my mistakes. My will too strong, my spirit's somethin' they can't take.

We have bodies. We have personalities. We have histories, stories and experiences. But we are not those things - we are Spirit.

Life can dictate that we suffer physical restrictions and limitations, but no one has the ability to restrict or in any way demean our spirit unless we agree to it.

Life, the river of the Spirit, consenting to anguish and sorrow.

Just as when spring comes, Nature celebrates, When Navaratri comes, the Spirit celebrates.

The affairs of God are accomplished little by little and almost imperceptibly. The Spirit of God is neither violent nor hasty. He does all things in His time.

Reaching that windswept perch, I decided, would cleanse my spirit and heal my wounds. More than that, it would send me home with a title: The First American Woman to Climb Everest.

Painting is saying "Ta" to God.

Pain is a coward. He flees when faced by the irresistible power of the will-to-live, which is more strongly rooted in the flesh than the intensest passion is rooted in the spirit.

I'm a skydiver, I race motorcycles and I enjoy the thrill of life and for me in this walk of faith there really is no greater thrill than the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in your life.

I have no interest in changing Hollywood. Hollywood is a place so consumed by the spirit of the world that I don't even want to try to think about how to infiltrate that.

Human beings are not things needing to be motivated and controlled; they are four dimensional - body, mind, heart, and spirit.

The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.

There's the physical life and the voice, but at some point you abandon all of that, you know what the spirit of the person is and you let it descend and just get on with it.

I am religious in the sense that I believe in God and I believe that there is an abiding logical spirit that controls what goes on to a certain extent.

It was an important period for us, because even though we weren't a "punk band", and what became a model for a punk band, we were able to be dragged along by the spirit of that time.

Something begins, begins; Starlit and sunlit, something walks abroad, In flesh and spirit and fire. Something is loosed to change the shaken world.

Next to the human spirit the human body is the most marvelous of God's creations.