Quotes About Spirit

They think of suicide as a quick route to oblivion, an escape. Far from it. It merely alters a person from one form to another. Nothing can destroy the spirit. Suicide only precipitates a darker continuation of the same conditions from which escape was sought. A condition under circumstances so much more painful.

How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born? Jesus answered: Verily, verily I say unto thee, except a man be born of water and the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God [17:3:3-5].

Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit The lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, but can never quite forget, is that to win is sometimes to lose.

Heroes rarely look the way we draw them in our minds: attractive, imposing figures with rippling muscles and strong chins. More times than not they are humble beings, small and flawed. It is only their spirits that are beautiful and strong.

In your hurry to keep Christmas, you have forgotten Christmas. The truest gift of Christmas is the gift of self.

Deep in our hearts everyone walks free.

No. I mean, if I were going by the book, I should have cited him, but sometimes you got to go by the spirit of the law. He fought for our country.

Heroes.... More times than not, they are humble beings: small and flawed. It is only their spirits that are beautiful and strong.

You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his body.

From our own strength we cannot bear the least trouble, but by the Spirit's assistance we can bear the greatest.

However, let us remember that grace is increased, in the exercise of it, not by virtue of the exercise itself, but as Christ by his Spirit flows into the soul and brings us nearer to himself, the fountain, so instilling such comfort that the heart is further enlarged.

Sometimes a Christian has such confused thoughts that he can say nothing but, as a child, cries, `O Father', not able to express what he needs, like Moses at the Red Sea. These stirrings of spirit touch the heart of God and melt him into compassion towards us, when they come from the Spirit of adoption, and from a striving to be better.

The more we see the grace of God in Christ, the spirit of fear is diminished and replaced by a spirit of love and boldness.

What is a ghost? Something dead that seems to be alive. Something dead that doesn't know it's dead.

What is a ghost? Something dead that seems to be alive. Something dead that doesn't know it's dead.

There is no good or evil, only spirit and matter. Only movement toward the light - and away from it.

Mi llamada es a los jóvenes de espíritu, sin perjuicio de su edad" dijo una vez John

F. Kennedy, y repito sus palabras en este momento. Escribo esencialmente para los jóvenes de espíritu, para los enérgicos, para los optimistas; para aquellos que convengan conmigo en reconocer que podemos y debemos modernizar (actualmente me gusta decir "mejorar") nuestro sistema jurídico y nuestro sistema de justicia.

Mi llamada es a los jóvenes de espíritu, sin perjuicio de su edad" dijo una vez John F. Kennedy, y repito sus palabras en este momento. Escribo esencialmente para los jóvenes de espíritu, para los enérgicos, para los optimistas; para aquellos que convengan conmigo en reconocer que podemos y debemos modernizar (actualmente me gusta decir "mejorar") nuestro sistema jurídico y nuestro sistema de justicia.

I do not act, but actions happen through me, the divine puppet.

The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. (Galatians 5:22). While these fruits, qualities, values or characteristics are universally true for all people, how did they find expression, uniquely, in each local culture?

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

One might say that where Religion becomes artificial, it is reserved for Art to save the spirit of religion.

Knights of the spirit; warriors in the cause Of justice absolute 'twixt man and man.