Quotes About Spirit

Scotch whisky is made from barley and the morning dew on angel's nipples.

Everything that is dead quivers. Not only the things of poetry, stars, moon, wood, flowers, but even a white trouser button glittering out of a puddle in the street... Everything has a secret soul, which is silent more often than it speaks.

Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.

How true it is that without the guidance of the Holy Spirit intellect not only is undependable but also extremely dangerous, because it often confuses the issue of right and wrong.

The Spirit is both a builder and a dweller. He cannot dwell where he has not built; He builds to dwell and dwells in only what he has built.

The more time you spend in the Word of God, the more easily you will recognize the Spirit of God's voice when He speaks to you. It may not be audibly, but you will sense the convicting hand of God upon your heart.

Restore to me the joy of Your salvation and sustain me with a willing spirit. (Psalm 51:12)

It was a fiery spirit he called "kill-devil.

[T]he invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

we create an environment, define the rules by which it works, and then encourage people to conform, we lose the spirit of that family. There's a reason why dysfunctional families and shattered relationships hurt so deeply. We were created for something better. We are designed for connection and sharing a depth of love others can rely on. That's

love—not imposed order—is the nature of his church. That's why his church is a family: a Father inviting us to take our place in his home; an older brother, Jesus, who empathizes with our struggles and offers us grace in time of need; a Spirit who empowers us; and brothers and sisters who can live alongside us with love and honor. The church reflects the best of what a family can be. It is

Sabbath is more than the absence of work; it is not just a day off, when we catch up on television or errands. It is the presence of something that arises when we consecrate a period of time to listen to what is most deeply beautiful, nourishing, or true. It is time consecrated with our attention, our mindfulness, honoring those quiet forces of grace or spirit that sustain and heal us.

specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved.

The swan is also a liminal bird, able to live in two worlds, land and water, or matter and spirit.

I have never been able to separate Jesus from my sense of God present as Spirit or from God who transcends categories, affirmations, analysis, and apprehension.

Every tool carries with it the spirit by which it has been created.

The world-view of the poets centred in their experience of human destiny itself and of the way in which it could be overcome through that spirit of heroism in the midst of tragedy which had grown to maturity in the hard struggles of a century filled with inward upheaval and threatened with constant danger from without.

But there was something else that I discovered in Madrid. It had more to do with the spirit than it did with knowledge and yet it was something I could hope to hand on. A change in method or technique accounts for many things in human history.

With either soul or body lost, all perisheth.

Thus, in accordance with the spirit of the Historical School, knowledge of the principles of the human world falls within that world itself, and the human sciences form an independent system.

For even if we know very little that is certain about spirit or soul, the true nature of the body, of materiality, is totally unknown and incomprehensible to us.

Riflessi di uccelli continuavano a spalmarsi sull'acqua, anche quando il cielo era vuoto. Un prodigioso fenomeno ottico, disse Humboldt. L'ottica non c'entra niente, disse Mario. Gli uccelli morivano continuamente, in ogni momento, in realtà non facevano quasi nient'altro. I loro spiriti sopravvivevano nei loro riflessi. Da qualche parte dovevano pur andare, giacché in cielo erano indesiderati. E gli insetti?, chiese Bonpland. Quelli non muoiono mai. E proprio lì stava il problema.

The light of revelation does not descend on us perpendicularly from above; it comes through worldly media by the power of God's Spirit, who enlists our participation in the process of responsible interpretation and critical appropriation.

There are more people living in Lower Manhattan now than before the terrorist attacks. That's faith for you. There's such a strong spirit here.