Quotes About Spirit

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In a certain state of thought is the common origin of very diverse works. It is the spirit and not the fact that is identical.

With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature.

I find a provision in the constitution of the world for the writer or secretary, who is to report the doings of the miraculous spirit of life that everywhere throbs and works.

Materialists speak of the power of people in masses—nations, societies, classes, institutions. Idealists speak of the power of individuals, measuring people by the strength of spirit they exude. According to idealists, mind is the fundamental reality—the ground of all being—and everything else is its reflection. Everything in nature is an expression of the universal mind.

There seems to be a necessity in spirit to manifest itself in material forms; and day and night, river and storm, beast and bird, acid and alkali, preexist in necessary Ideas in the mind of God, and are what they are by virtue of preceding affections, in the world of spirit. A Fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world. Material

What is the soul? Commonly, it's defined as an immortal spirit placed inside each person's body by God. But Emerson had a very different understanding. For Emerson, the soul encompasses both mind and heart. It's the ruler of the mind and emotions. The soul

Ghost-like we glide through nature, and should not know our place again.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact

In groves of oak, or fanes of gold, Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind.

Over everything stands its daemon or soul, and, as the form of the thing is reflected by the eye, so the soul of the thing is reflected by a melody.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his

preceding affections, in the world of spirit. A Fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.

Every scripture is to be interpreted by the same spirit which gave it forth,—is the fundamental law of criticism.

Aldous Huxley reminds us, "The body is always in time, the spirit is always timeless and the psyche is an amphibious creature compelled by the laws of man's being to associate itself to some extent with its body, but capable, if it so desires, of experiencing and being identified with its spirit.

Remember, awareness is part of the soul. And the soul loves everything.

We are born into the world of nature; our second birth is into the world of spirit."—Bhagavad Gita

Jesus came not only to save spirits from damnation. That would have been, at most, a partial victory. No, he came to save his whole creation from death. That means our bodies too, not just our spirits. It means the earth, not just humanity. And it means the universe, not just the earth. Christ's

Nothing is more poisonous than the spirit of entitlement that permeates our culture and sometimes, sadly, our churches.

R. A. Torrey writes, "We will not be disembodied spirits in the world to come, but redeemed spirits, in redeemed bodies, in a redeemed universe.

The Spirit's work is not to make us holy, in order that we may be pardoned; but to show us the cross, where the pardon is to be found by the unholy; so that having found the pardon there, we may begin the life of holiness to which we are called." —Horatius Bonar

Here is life's essential purpose — to worship God in spirit and in truth (see John 4:24). All other purposes are meant to be secondary. When they become primary, they destroy the individual.

We are neither just brains floating around nor just hearts bouncing about.

Johann Sebastian Bach once said that the only purpose for music should be the glory of God and the re-creation of the human spirit.