Spirit Quotes

Our first computers were born not out of greed or ego, but in the revolutionary spirit of helping common people rise above the most powerful institutions.

I've always done quite well as far as the charts are concerned. And yet I always felt I conveyed the spirit of the music I love, which didn't have any chart success.

Family, community, and the realm of the private self - your mind, body, and spirit - are all important sources of the inspiration, support, and ideas we all need to lead the lives we want.

The spirit of Jane Eyre looms over Once Upon a Day. Lisa Tucker keeps the plot of this gothic novel bubbling with tons of juicy family secrets.

The hunger of the spirit for eternity - as fierce as a starving man's for bread - is much less a craving to go on living than a craving for redemption. Oh, and a protest against absurdity.

If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.

So we're all living spirit. It's not about isms and schims or religions. Religions are almost like political institutions, but the heart of it is the spirituality.

There’s a level at which words are spirit and paper is skin. That’s the fascination of archives. There’s still a bodily trace.

Well, Henry, you can cease frowning at me. If I am a magician, I am a very indifferent one. Other adepts summon up fairy-spirits and long-dead kings. I appear to have conjured the spirit of a banker.

If I can make it clear that I’m still defying the Capitol right up to the end, the Capitol will have killed me... but not my spirit. What better way to give hope to the rebels?

The spirit world speaks to us through the heart. The more we open our hearts and raise our own vibrations, the easier the connection.

The spirit world wants us to know there's more to this life.

When you've been battered down and battered down and battered down, your spirit gets broken.

The forms are evanescent; but the spirit, being in the Lord and of the Lord, is immortal and omnipresent.

Everything will come right if you are pure and sincere. We want hundreds like you bursting upon society and bringing new life and vigor of the spirit wherever they go.

The more you think of yourself as shining immortal spirit, the more eager you will be to be absolutely free of matter, body, and senses. This is the intense desire to be free.

Excepting the infinite spirit, everything else is changing. There is the whirl of change.

I listen to my spirit guide.

Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to the perfect Christian.

Troubled times do call for troubled songs, songs that unsettle our souls and our spirits unapologetically.

As I discovered music, especially Rock 'n Roll, new territory was opened to me. I was lured by the unbridled rhythm of this art form. It was like gasoline on the fire of my youthful spirit.

The true shaman, the true naturalist, works to reconnect conscious human life with Nature and Spirit through totems and ritual.

When I paint to please other people I tend to lose the free spirit creative edge.

The spirit of America is all about defiance, and the best music like mine is the freedom soundtrack.

All my songs instinctively erupted from my guitar and lyrical visions followed the spirit of the music, bot image wise and rhythmical cadence wise. It remains one of life's greatest joys to this day.

We're all haunted in one way or another, are we not? If not by spirits, then by our own demons and regrets.

It was sad, like those businessmen who came to work in serious clothes but wore colorful ties in a mad, desperate attempt to show there was a free spirit in there somewhere.

The spirit he has shown has been second to none. (on Terry Fenwick's drunk-driving charge)

Conversion by the Holy Spirit is a spiritual illumination of the soul. God's grace lights up the dark heart. And when a man has once been kindled at the cross of Christ, he is bound to shine.

You can recognize the Spirit of Christ within you when you speak to one another or speak of another person with a warm smile instead of with a frown or scowl.

Who rise from flesh to spirit know the fall: The word outleaps the world, and light is all.

The joy of living is his who has the heart to demand it. Life is a great adventure, and I want to say to you, accept it in such a spirit.

War with evil; but show no spirit of malignity toward the man who may be responsible for the evil. Put it out of his power to do wrong.

I can't wait until I touch the stage, I'm going to catch the spirit and lose my mind.

All of our saddest songs have somewhere in them at least a glimmer of resolve - Street Spirit has no resolve. It is the dark tunnel without the light at the end.

Few spirits are made better by the pain and languor of sickness; as few great pilgrims become eminent saints.

Here 'neath veils, my Saviour darkly I behold; To my thirsting spirit all thy light unfold; Face to face in heaven let me come to thee, And the blessed vision of thy glory see.

In the poorest cottage are Books: is one Book, wherein for several thousands of years the spirit of man has found light, and nourishment, and an interpreting response to whatever is Deepest in him.

A pygmy standing on the outward crust of this small planet, his far-reaching spirit stretches outward to the infinite, and there alone finds rest.

The peace of nature and of the innocent creatures of god seems to be secure and deep, only so long as the presence of man and his restless and unquiet spirit are not there to trouble its sanctity.

Men thin away to insignificance and oblivion quite as often by not making the most of good spirits when they have them as by lacking good spirits when they are indispensable.

He who has conquered his own coward spirit has conquered the whole outward world.

life is of no value but as it brings gratifications. among the most valuable of these is rational society. it informs the mind, sweetens the temper, chears our spirits, and promotes health.

...is the spirit of the people an infallible, a permanent reliance? ...the spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless.

No man has greater confidence than I have in the spirit of the people, to a rational extent. Whatever they can, they will.

[A] spirit of justice and friendly accomodation...is our duty and our interest to cultivate with all nations.

The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It had only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican.

It accords with the most liberal spirit of philosophy to suppose that not a stone can fall, or a plant rise, without the immediate agency of divine power.

Therefore we say that a lying Spirit has been in the mouth of the writers of the books of the Bible.

I sit at the piano for a couple of hours and tinker away until I get something. I am a nocturnal spirit, like an owl.