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Quotes About Spirit

Art makes the spirit soar. And when the
~ Adriana Trigiani
If you face the rest of your life with the spirit you show on the trail, it will have no choice but to yield the same kind of memories and dreams.
~ Adrienne Hall
it is the Lord's love that sends the Spirit, whose final duty is always to prepare mankind for love.
~ Adrienne von Speyr
And when he had put on the yoke-strap of compulsion, his spirit's wind veering to an impious blast, impure, unholy, from that moment his mind changed to a temper of utter ruthlessness. For mortals are made reckless by the evil counsels of merciless Infatuation, beginner of disaster.
~ Aeschylus
This fable shows that ornaments of the spirit are preferable to a beautiful body.
~ Aesop
Much comment on Mrs T.'s courage the next morning, when she arrives at the Conservative conference on the dot, but it's not difficult to appear calm and unruffled in such circumstances, as any actor could tell you. The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
~ Alan Bennett
Aloha means to see the 'uhane—the living spirit, immortal soul, whatever you call it—in everyone you meet.
~ Alan Brennert
Aloha means to see the 'uhane—the living spirit, immortal soul, whatever you call it—in everyone you meet. I've done my best to live up to that.
~ Alan Brennert
Aum?kua of the night, watch over your offspring, enfold them in the belt of light.
~ Alan Brennert
All disease is a denial of love, and all denial of love is fear.
~ Alan Cohen
En la vida todo se basa en el poder de la mente sobre la materia.
~ Alan Cohen
Your soul animates your body, but is not contained
~ Alan Cohen
Your body is wired. Your spirit is wireless.
~ Alan Cohen
If you are separated from someone, or they turn their back on you, or someone has passed on, don't despair. You can connect with them in spirit.
~ Alan Cohen
In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit, built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.
~ Alan Hirsch
Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God's eternal purposes for his world. Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church—reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.
~ Alan Hirsch
asked, 'Lord, does he or she who sees the vision perceive it through soul or spirit?' He answered, 'One perceives through neither soul nor spirit but by mind, which mediates between both; visions are mental.
~ Alan Jacobs
Masterpieces should be kept for High Holidays of the Spirit"—for our own personal Christmases and Easters, not for any old Wednesday.
~ Alan Jacobs
Socrates: Yes mercy and grace are all linked with Love. Let your tears of gratitude wash away the dark dirt of ignorance obscuring your own dear Self which is Love. Charmides: So Love has nothing to do with lust then? Socrates: No! Lust is from the selfish false sense of a 'me' desperate for some pleasurable, momentary relief from its anguish and boredom. Love is refined, and her amorous advances are from the spirit, not the body.
~ Alan Jacobs
Indeed, there is something in this valley, some spirit and some life, and much to talk about in the huts. Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
~ Alan Paton
In this passage, Jesus stated very clearly that Satan has a kingdom, and that it is not divided. Then He went on to speak about the kingdom of God: And if I cast out demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they shall be your judges. But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, surely the kingdom of God has come upon you. (Matthew 12:27–28)
~ Derek Prince
We can't build anything that will impress God because He has already created the entire universe. There is one thing, however, that does attract His favor: "On this one will I look [esteem or respect]." Whom will God respect and take into account? "Him who is poor and of a contrite spirit and who trembles at My word.
~ Derek Prince
It's like the tragedy of the whole world in a little glass,' she said. 'Great things are all smashed to pulp, and none of us who are left have the spirit to carry on.
~ Derek Raymond
Some people believe that a persons spirit is captured when they are photographed. I invite those of you who dont believe that to take a photograph of someone you love a stab it repeatedly with a pair of scissors. Maybe they do capture something of the soul.
~ Derren Victor Brown