Quotes About Spirit

No eternal learning can take place without that quickening of the Spirit from heaven.

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.

The life of the body is the soul; the life of the soul is God.

You can kill my body, and you can take my life but you can never kill my soul. My soul will live forever!

True karate is this: that in daily life one's mind and body be trained and developed in a spirit of humility, and that in critical times, one be devoted utterly to the cause of justice.

Whenever and however you give birth, your experience will impact your emotions, your mind, your body, and your spirit for the rest of your life.

I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail...because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

My soul comes from better worlds and I have an incurable homesickness of the stars.

Jesus rejected hatred because he saw that hatred meant death to the mind, death to the spirit, and death to communion with his Father. He affirmed life; and hatred was the great denial.

Pranayama is the practice of breath control. The word prana refers not only to breath, but also to air and life itself.

You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.

The mind of the spirit will guide you in perfect ways, even in the minute details of your life, if you will let it do so.

Think not I dread to see my spirit fly, Through the dark gates of fell mortality; Death has no terrors when the life is true; 'Tis living ill that makes us fear to die.

Repentance is the true turning of our life to God, a turning that arises from a pure and earnest fear of Him; and it consists in the mortification of the flesh and the renewing of the Spirit.

Cultural indigestion, I tell you, the gripe in the bowels of your spirit.

I was a ghost. I was a ghost.

During the repose which followed the battle of Manassas, it was deemed proper that the regiments of the different States should be assembled in brigades together, and, as far as consistent with the public service, that the spirit of the law should be complied with by the assignment of brigadier-generals of the same State from which the troops were drawn.

El evangelio antiguo y sencillo todavía es relevante para aquellos que están pereciendo y se conecta con aquellos que son vivificados por el Espíritu y ponen su confianza en Cristo Jesús.

La iglesia ha pasado de ser la asamblea de los santos que adoran a Dios en Espíritu y en verdad, a ser una reunión social de cristianos nominales, que escuchan discursos motivacionales semanales acerca de cómo mantener una actitud positiva y cómo hacer lo correcto, esto les permite experimentar su mejor vida ahora.

The details of Isaac's birth were the opposite of Ishmael's. Isaac's mother represents the unconditional covenant of grace revealed to Abraham. Isaac was born (1) supernaturally, (2) by the free woman, and (3) according to the promise. In a sense, these characteristics are true for all those who have been born again by the Spirit into the covenant of grace.

Cartesian dualism served science well, at first: by ceding matters of the spirit to men of the cloth, it got the Church off the back of science, which for centuries afterward was perceived as less of a threat to religion's domain than it would otherwise have been (pace, Galileo). But Cartesian dualism was a disaster for moral philosophy, setting in motion a process that ultimately reduced human beings to automatons.

Why? Well, for one reason because of the incalculable suffering in both body and spirit endured by the Savior of the world so that we could flee.11 We owe Him something for that. Indeed, we owe Him everything for that. "Ye are not your own," Paul says. "Ye [have been] bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's."12