Quotes About Spirit

The more you have of a rational knowledge of divine things, the more opportunity will there be, when the Spirit shall be breathed into your heart, to see the excellency of these things, and to taste the sweetness of them.

Qué el deleite infinito y eterno de Dios en el mismo Dios pueda ahora fluir en nosotros a través del Espíritu Santo! Ésa es nuestra gloria y nuestro gozo.

The spirit of Jesus, when he set his face like flint to go to Jerusalem, runs through the generations of all his most inspiring followers.

The fruit of love is worked in us through the Spirit 'by hearing with faith.' The Spirit will not bear his fruit in us apart from our faith. Why is this?..The answer seems to be that the Holy Spirit loves to glorify the all-satisfying dependability of Christ and his Word. If the Holy Spirt simply caused acts of love in the human heart without any clear, ongoing causal connection with faith in Christ's promises, then it would not be plain that Christ is honored through love.

Spiritually at that time the Lord tells us that He will "pour out My spirit on the house of Israel". (Ezekiel 39:29).

The origin of the political relations between the United States and France is coeval with the first years of our independence. The memory of it is interwoven with that of our arduous struggle for national existence. Weakened as it has occasionally been since that time, it can by us never be forgotten, and we should hail with exultation the moment which should indicate a recollection equally friendly in spirit on the part of France.

Death fixes forever the relation existing between the departed spirit and the survivors upon earth.

The Light of Liberty is all-consuming because it is the natural way of the soul. It is the highest form of Love."

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

I think about those words a lot, and I think about their spirits too. If you believe in those sorts of things. I do and I don't believe. But mostly— mostly, mostly— I do.

The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people; and the spirit of liberty, in so far as it resists such attempts, may ally itself locally and temporarily with the opponents of improvement; but the only unfailing and permanent source of improvement is liberty

and to extinguish all books, all schools, all combinations of individuals for joint action upon society, which may be attempted for the purpose of keeping alive a spirit at variance with its own. Is it, we say, the proper condition of man, in all ages and nations, to be under the despotism of Public Opinion?

His spirit was sweeping like the wind over Elysian Fields and flashing into point after point on celestial quail.

I do not care how learned a man may be, or how extensively he may have traveled; I do not care what his talent, intellect or genius may be, at what college he may have studied, how comprehensive his views or what his judgment may be on other matters, he cannot understand certain things without the Spirit of God, and that necessarily introduces the principle . . . of revelation.

Poverty can't make you miserable; only a bad character and a weak spirit can do that.

Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist; it should furnish you with an original spirit with which to tackle the big challenges; it should allow you to find values which will be your roadmap through life; it should make you spiritually rich, a person who loves whatever you are doing, wherever you are, whomever you are with; it should teach you what is important, how to live and how to die.

What art offers is space — a certain breathing room for the spirit.

What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.

Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more.

Hay personas que no tienen poesía en sus almas.

Your hand has reached into our souls and tried to take our dignity, and we remain unbowed. I challenge you to come forth and answer me!

Affliction is not misery. Misery is the abasement of spirit which comes from the loss of God and good.

The chiefest action for a man of great spirit is never to be out of action... the soul was never put into the body to stand still.

October 6, 1774 I met those of our society who had votes in the ensuing election, and advised them 1. To vote, without fee or reward, for the person they judged most worthy 2. To speak no evil of the person they voted against, and 3. To take care their spirits were not sharpened against those that voted on the other side.