Quotes About Spirit

In your eyes I see the doorway to a thousand churches.

Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science.

You live on Earth only for a few short years which you call an incarnation, and then you leave your body as an outworn dress and go for refreshment to your true home in the spirit.

If any spirit created the universe, it is malevolent, not benevolent.

The idea of God, infinity, or spirit stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception.

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion of brotherhood and devotion.

Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life.

By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit.

There are certain things we must not pray about - moods, for instance. Moods never go by praying, moods go by kicking.

"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."

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

Sacred spirit of love, fall down on me from above.

If we lose the spirit of 'go,' we have lost the very Christian spirit itself. A disobedient church will become a dead church. It will die of heart failure.

You can have Jesus in your spirit and have an outrageous mess in your soul, and if you don't know what that's called, it's called religion.

I believe the world of the spirit is in general greatly neglected and not at all served by the practice of faith as we know it, because religion isn't individual enough.

The religion of a sinner stands on two pillars; namely, what Christ did for us in the flesh, and what he performs in us by his Spirit. Most errors arise from an attempt to separate these two.

The source of nature is spirit.

We all draw breath and life from the same source of creation.

The spirit of seeking understanding through personal contact with people of other nations and other cultures deserves the respect and support of all.

Self-respect is to the soul as oxygen is to the body. Deprive a person of oxygen, and you kill his body; deprive him of self-respect and you kill his spirit.

A real medicine can only exist when it penetrates into a knowledge which embraces the human being in respect to body, soul and spirit.

There can never be deep peace between two spirits, never mutual respect, until, in their dialogue, each stands for the whole world.

She was so quiet. So reflective. And she could erase herself, her spirit, with a swiftness that truly startled, when she knew the people around her could not respect it.