What Is A Spirit Quotes

There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.

I dance as a political statement, because disabled bodies are inherently political, but I mostly dance for all the same reasons anyone else does: because it heals my spirit and fills me with joy.

She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him.

Pray five times a day for peace. Peace in your life, peace in your spirit, peace in your family, peace in your community, in your city but most importantly peace in this world.

I should like to make films that are not lowering to the spirit. A new building can be very harrowing, I should like to give people a chance to whistle.

Many people remember that spirit that President Kennedy summoned forth. Many people look to me as somebody who embodies that sense of possibility.

Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

God as we ought to worship Him. God is Spirit, so we must worship Him in spirit and truth, that is, by a humble and true adoration of spirit in the depth and center of our souls.

Art is the conveyance of spirit by means of matter.

The eternity of the spirit does not begin after death ... but is, like God, always present.

If I were asked to explain the Japanese spirit, I would say it is wild cherry blossoms glowing in the morning sun!

If, therefore, there is any grace in the water, it is not from the nature of water but from the Spirit's presence there.

The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document; it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age.

This spirit of mob-law is becoming as great an evil as a servile war.

The spirit and the body carry different loads and require different attentions. Too often we put the saddlebags on Jesus and let the donkey run loose in the pasture.

The spirit should never grow old.

Part of building a new nation means building a spirit of tolerance, love and respect amongst the people of this country.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Never lead your soldiers to battle if you have not first confirmed their spirit and known them to be without fear and ordered; and never test them except when you see that they hope to win.

You have to work out where your place is. And who you are. But we're all spirit. That's all we are, we're just walking dressed up in a suit of skin, and we're going to leave that behind.

The great, the fundamental need of any nation, any race, is for heroism, devotion, sacrifice; and there cannot be heroism, devotion, or sacrifice in a primarily skeptical spirit.

I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.

The true spirit of delight...is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.

Gender preference does not define you. Your spirit defines you.

The saxophone is the embodied spirit of beer.

Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.

Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism.

The condition of the body limits, largely, the expression of the spirit.

The main characteristic which is the proof of the indwelling Spirit is an amazing tenderness in personal dealing, and a blazing truthfulness with regard to God's Word.

It had a huge impact on me, ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ – and I was very proud when I found out that Kurt Cobain was a fan of mine. I thought he was awesome.

The more mechanical becomes the weapons with which we fight, the less mechanical must be the spirit which controls them.

The whole comes to this, that Christ, when he produces faith in us by the agency of his Spirit, at the same time ingrafts us into his body, that we may become partakers of all spiritual blessings.

If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the spirit.

Today too, as at her origins, the Church... cries out:“Veni, Sancte Spiritus! Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful, and kindle in them the fire of your love!” Amen.

Not only in the creative world but also in the sports world. The most successful achievers in sports are people that are really driven and have that spirit of hunger.

In the temple of his spirit, each man is alone.

Imagine what it might do to the human spirit to know that we have conquered hunger as a world wide societal issue?

Spirit is the vast stillness which is behind all created things.

Every night in sleep God takes away all your troubles to show you that you are not a mortal being; you are spirit.

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.

The thrust of continuous action is the firewood which fuels motivation.

those who are afraid of freedom are those who cannot trust us to live in them. Trying to keep the law is actually a declaration of independence, a way of keeping control

Water will not flow from a faucet that is not connected to its source.

You have to change your thinking if you desire to have a future different from your present.

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Spirit is like the wind, in that we can't see it but can see its effects, which are profound.

Give up all bad qualities in you, banish the ego and develop the spirit of surrender. You will then experience Bliss.

I want to live my life without filters. I don't walk on egg shells. I say what I want and I'm a very free spirit.