Quotes About Spirit

Love is the energy of life.

The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.

Charles Colson Harmony and oneness in spirit can be achieved only when Christians put aside their personal agendas and submit themselves to the authority of the Holy Spirit. … When the people of God, united in his name, proclaim the Word of God, they can turn their world upside down.69

See into the Spirit of the Times A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself. —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You must alter your attitude toward your own generation. We like to imagine that we are autonomous and that our values and ideas come from within, not without, but this is in fact not the case. Your goal is to understand as deeply as possible how profoundly the spirit of your generation, and the times that you live in, have influenced how you perceive the world.

Work every day on improving those skills that mesh with your unique spirit and purpose

The second kind comes from a bold and venturesome spirit. If you fail in this way, the hit that you take to your reputation is greatly outweighed by what you learn. Repeated failure will toughen your spirit and show you with absolute clarity how things must be done.

you will feel differently about yourself. Your concept of time will expand and you will realize that if the past lives on in you, what you are doing today, the world you live in, will live on and affect the future, connecting you to the larger human spirit that moves through us all. You in this moment are a part of that unbroken chain. And this can be an intoxicating experience, a strange intimation of immortality.

I have put out my books and now my house has a soul.

the spirit of Christ is the embodiment of God in activity or the movement of God.

Most human restlessness and pain is the result of the Spirit's incessant demand that humans live from the deepest part of their being.

Violence harms the one who does it as much as the one who receives it. You could cut down a tree with an axe. The axe does violence to the tree, and escapes unharmed. Is that how you see it? Wood is soft compared to steel, but the sharp steel is dulled as it chops, and the sap of the tree will rust and pit it. The mighty axe does violence to the helpless tree, and is harmed by it. So it is with men, though the harm is in the spirit.

Your body is only clothing. Your flesh will wither, but you are your heart and mind, and they do not change except to grow stronger.

The grave is no bar to my call.

Hopper sent to him, but you are here too strongly, and too long from your body.

Wood is soft compared to steel, but the sharp steel is dulled as it chops, and the sap of the tree will rust and pit it. The mighty axe does violence to the helpless tree, and is harmed by it. So it is with men, though the harm is in the spirit.

Your flesh will wither, but you are your heart and mind, and they do not change except to grow stronger.

You could cut down a tree with your axe," Raen said. "The axe does violence to the tree, and escapes unharmed. Is that how you see it? Wood is soft compared to steel, but the sharp steel is dulled as it chops, and the sap of the tree will rust and pit it. The mighty axe does violence to the helpless tree, and is harmed by it. So it is with men, though the harm is in the spirit.

Nynaeve al'Meara was what, back in Seanchan, one would call a telarti—a woman with fire in her soul.

That primal wolf inside of him sparked to wakefulness

This means that he has an unconquerable spirit, that he has great courage, that he is fearless, that he takes responsibility for his actions, and that he has self-discipline. Discipline means that he has the rigor to develop control and mastery over his mind and over his body, and that he has the capacity to withstand pain, both psychological and physical.

Zen is the spirit of the valley, not the mountaintop. The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

Gumption is the psychic gasoline that keeps the whole thing going.

Zen is the "spirit of the valley," not the mountaintop.