Quotes About Spirit

If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller.

The word of God is our only standard, and the Holy Spirit our only teacher.

Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire.

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

Danger was the grindstone on which the swordsman whetted his spirit. Enemies were teachers in disguise.

A worker in the rural reconstruction must have: The body of an athlete The attitude of a teacher The mind of a scientist The heart of a missionary The spirit of a crusader.

Only great pain is, as the teacher of great suspicion, the ultimate liberator of the spirit...I doubt whether such pain improves us-but I do know it deepens us.

Don't act your age in retirement. Act like the inner young person you have always been.

The Holy Spirit is our great Teacher.

Shobha announced, trying to lighten the mood. "And I'll keep all the books," Girish said in the same spirit. "Fair enough. But not the records. I take most

Mrs. Linden was beautiful in spirit and in fact. Her wish, she told her daughter, was to be a beautiful woman and surprise people because she was a beautiful woman who was kind.

But I will win and give her my spirit, because this is the way a mother loves her daughter. -Ying Ying

Now I was a tiger that neither pounced nor lay waiting between the trees. I became an unseen spirit.

I will use this sharp pain to penetrate my daughter's tough skin and cut her tiger spirit loose. She will fight me, because this is the nature of two tigers. But I will win and give her my spirit, because this is the way a mother loves her daughter.

You are beauty, we are beauty, we are divine, unchanged by time.

This is beauty...and you are beauty, and love is beauty and we are beauty. We are divine, unchanged by time.

This Shanghai was not a place but a feeling of contentment. I was returning with myself whole and unbroken—limbs, mind, and spirit. I had discarded pride

Where did he go when he left us? I spied the new journal he had started using just last week and held it against my chest. This was who he was. But it also was not. It was sad and beautiful knowledge that a person cannot be found elsewhere but in his own spirit. No one could possess it.

It was sad and beautiful knowledge that a person cannot be found elsewhere but in his own spirit.

He should go away and study, let his mind wander freely. Until then, he should not be obeisant in spirit to those who trampled it.

Her mastery of the language was a blissful expression of the spirit to her, like playing a musical instrument.

But we were lonely. we had nobody to play with. The gay child, the inventive child, the spirited and wild child, was lonely.

Whatever tragic spirit lay behind this polished surface went into her singing, with which she tore people's serenity to shreds, spreading anxiety and regrets and nostalgia everywhere.

Strange that when we finally fly, the separation from the past seems easier to achieve. Height and distance from the earth seem to stabilize the spirit, to liberate it from its sorrow. We enter the consciousness of the cosmos.