Quotes About Spirit

I am beginning to comprehend the mystery of the gift of suffering. It is true as some have said that it is a crucible in which the gold of one's spirit is rendered and shines.

God is different to us now, after all these years in Africa. More spirit than ever before, and more internal. Most people think he has to look like something or someone — a roofleaf or Christ — but we don't. And not being tied to what God looks like, frees us.

When he broke that commitment to art, to making beauty, to recording, to bearing witness, to saying yessiree to the life spirit, whose only request sometimes is just that you acknowledge you truly see it, he broke something in Hal.

The brilliance of enslaving the spirit is that it is an invisible prison from which the inmate appears to derive some comfort.

The music becomes boisterous and acoustic, at the low end of genius but brilliant in spirit and tone. It is joy by fiddle, laughter by accordion, Ireland through to the bone.

Authors Note: This is a sketchbook, a collection of my impressions of Iran and its people. For the most part, I have painted situations as they occurred, present voices as precisely as possible. At times, I have made collages of stories and faces, as often to protect the identities of people as to lend artistry to a scene. As is the case with many portraits, their truth is not in their detail, but their spirit.

I have no other possessions of value but my soul.

No point writing when the spirit doth not lead.

We're not our skin of grime, we're not our dread...

Everyman's an angel!

Say what you will, he proves to us, in spite of the most debasing experiences that life can offer a man, the spirit of love survives to ennoble our lives if we have the wit and the courage and the faith – and the art! to persist.

that's becuase you're my angel. Angel by name, angel by nature.

Beneath their wary smiles, the people were warm and friendly. They had known sorrow and loss, but their spirit survived.

For there be divers sorts of death—some wherein the body remained; and in some it vanished quite away with the spirit.

Whenever he was asked what somebody had died of he'd reply (with immense gravity), Lack of breath.

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

you are a consciousness using a body and a brain to express different levels of mind.

When I call on Spirit it responds.

to believe in yourself . . . to be healed . . . to be free . . . to be moved by the spirit? . . .

I have known others who could use totems of their own to turn reality inside out. To reshape it like the soft clay it is. There was Craddock McDermott, who claimed that his spirit existed in a favorite suit of his.

then he said souls aren´t boys and aren´t girls. they´re only souls.

Where do you go when you die? Ha ha. Go on, go on and tell her, Billy." Billy smiles. "You become a little voice in someone's ear telling them that things will be alright.

like a pack of wild Indians.

Escribe Murray: "Ser padres de nuevas congregaciones…es el instinto natural de los que han nacido de nuevo por el Espíritu, de los que Él ha reunido en familias locales de cristianos