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Quotes About Spirit

Reynolds says, "In these Words, we learn that the attraction of the Cross of Christ will prove to be the mightiest, and most sovereign motive ever brought to bear on the human will, and, when wielded by the Holy Spirit as a Revelation of the matchless Love of God, will involve the most sweeping judicial sentence that can be pronounced upon the world and its prince.").
~ Jimmy Swaggart
21 I do not frustrate the Grace of God (if we make anything other than the Cross of Christ the Object of our Faith, we frustrate the Grace of God, which means we stop its action, and the Holy Spirit will no longer help us): for if Righteousness come by the Law (any type of Law), then Christ is dead in vain. (If I can successfully live for the Lord by any means other than Faith in Christ and the Cross, then the Death of Christ was a waste.)
~ Jimmy Swaggart
the thymus regulates the boundary between earth and heaven
~ JOAN BORYSENKO
Stability of heart— commitment to the life of the soul, faithfulness to the community, perseverance in the search for God— is the mooring that holds us fast when the night of the soul is at its deepest dark, and the noontime sun sears the spirit. When
~ Joan D. Chittister
It is precisely women's experience of God that this world lacks. A world that does not nurture its weakest, does not know God the birthing mother. A world that does not preserve the planet, does not know God the creator. A world that does not honor the spirit of compassion, does not know God the spirit. God the lawgiver, God the judge, God the omnipotent being have consumed Western spirituality and, in the end, shriveled its heart.
~ Joan D. Chittister
The worst thing yet the best that can happen to you is a soul touch!!!!
~ Joan Duncan Oliver
Although we are necessarily concerned, in a chronicle of events, with physical action by the light of day, history suggests that the human spirit wanders farthest in the silent hours between midnight and dawn. Those dark fruitful hours, seldom recorded, whose secret flowerings breed peace and war, loves and hates, the crowning or uncrowning of heads.
~ Joan Lindsay
Self is that which dies... Spirit is that which lives... forever.
~ Joan Walsh Anglund
Death should be a celebration. Like a birthday. I want to go up like a rocket when my time comes, and fall down in a cloud of stars, and hear everyone go: ahh!
~ Joanne Harris
It seemed, when all was said and done, that all souls were a little wild, in some way or another.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
She thought to herself how amazing it was that she was here, walking at dusk with an old pirate-her (italics), May! If only Somber Kitty could have seen her. Maybe he would see her, soon. The thought lifted her spirits.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
He smiled again, and I felt the smile in my fingers and in the soles of my feet; it invaded me like a bad spirit, and Tiger Lily shivered
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
Forgiveness requires a sacrifice of pride. A humbling of the spirit. An increase of selfless love. A time when you allow others' feelings to be more important than your own.
~ Ann H. Gabhart
Anyone who believes the competitive spirit in America is dead has never been in a supermarket when the cashier opens another check-out line.
~ Ann Landers
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. Ezekiel 36:26 NIV
~ Ann Parker
And now the Marquis, who interpreted her silence into a secret compliance with his proposal, resumed all his gaiety and spirit, while the long and ardent regards he bestowed on Adeline, overcame her with confusion and indignation.
~ Ann Radcliffe
I find American girls have a spirit and honesty about them that is most refreshing.
~ Ann Rinaldi
So often we focus on Jesus's mission on the cross to save us from our sins. As marvelous as that is, it's critical for us to grasp the importance of his mission on earth as a rabbi. His goal was to raise up disciples who would become like him. As followers of Jesus, we are still called to live out the adventure of discipleship, becoming like Jesus through the power of his Spirit at work within us.
~ Ann Spangler
Your health is what you make of it. Everything you do and think either adds to the vitality, energy and spirit you possess or takes away from it.
~ Ann Wigmore
The first ray -- as the blessing of the Lord -- Across the face of the beloved did creep, Who, sleeping, went a little pale, And then again more tightly went to sleep. It seemed that warmth of ray of sun Appeared to him just like a kiss. And long with these my lips I have not touched The tan strong shoulder or the dear lips. And now, the deceased spirits in my long Disconsolate wandering along the way, I am now flying toward him as a song And I caress him with a morning ray.
~ Anna Akhmatova
No sadness, my soul's no more of this world.
~ Anna Akhmatova
So, marriage, Miss Warren?" The suspicion that her expression was as vapid as her brainless hound's sparked a revival of spirit. "Is that a proposal?" He laughed comfortably and tucked her closer. The delicious scent of clean male enveloped her. "No." "Good." "When I propose, you'll be in no doubt of my intentions." Even
~ Anna Campbell
Hath the spirit of all beauty Kissed you in the path of duty?
~ Anna Katharine Green
More than a shadow and less than a soul.
~ Anne Bishop