Quotes About Spirit

It's hard to hear the gentle whisper of the Spirit amid the noise of Christendom.

But we are not just called to be candles. We are called to be fire. Candles can be snuffed out by the slightest wind or by the smallest child on their birthday. But it's harder to put out a fire. We are to be fire, to weave our lives together so that the Spirit's inferno of love spreads across the earth.

So often we think it is our job to push people, and it really is a lack of faith that the Spirit is already at work in them, leading them. We think the Spirit can't work without us jumping in to help make sure they know what the Bible says, or this or that.

promise never to leave us or forsake us. Since we are always in your presence, help us always to keep our eyes fixed upon you that we might follow your lead in the never-ending dance of your life as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen.

Andre Trocmé, who pastored the remarkable Le Chambon community during World War II, said, "Nonviolence was not a theory superimposed upon reality; it was an itinerary that we explored day after day in communal prayer and in obedience to the commands of the Spirit.

Smell is the voice of the soul...

All Greencloaks spoke to their spirit animals, but Maya was holding what appeared to be an intense one-sided conversation with an amphibian!

Man needs bread and hyacinths: one to feed the body, and one to feed the soul.

there was something wistful about her, under the burnish of her makeup she looked extremely young, and a little afraid. I wanted to speak to her, as if I were a guardian spirit working the airport—God knows I was crazed with my fresh solitariness— so I did a little double take, when I passed her, and said, Could I ask, where did you get your sandals—my husband, I lied, wants me to get some, and she said a name, as if relieved to speak.

my spirit was holding its breath... there were planets, workaday, rolling silent by, and luminous moons, their backs to us, and troughs where atoms turned inside out.

Then every scene I thought of I visited accompanied by a death-spirit, everything was chilled with it, each time I woke, I lay in dreading bliss to feel and hear him sigh and snore.

The essential joy of being with horses is that it brings us in contact with the rare elements of grace, beauty, spirit, and fire.

If an apostle is one who builds the kingdom of God by helping govern and administrate the Spirit's activity on earth, why would we limit this role to ministerial positions within the walls of traditional congregations?

A nation's moral flag flies in the spirit of its people.

This was an age of utopianism. Political leaders had utopian visions, and so did many citizens, especially the younger generation. The spirit is hard to capture in an age of skepticism, since utopianism, like revolution, is so unreasonable.

Both making life and making art are pouring spirit into form.

For art is not made for living bodies—it is made for the cold, eternal soul.

for what is art but the act of infusing matter with the breath of God?

But I think you are already in the meshes of the net! The Holy Spirit is after you. I doubt if you'll get away!

The world of the dead won?t give you up a second time.

Brazil is not what you see but what you feel. Once you spend time here - a week, two weeks - you get in the vibe. It's really intoxicating.

At the time of death we walk through a doorway and our spirit, which is very thin, slides through into another world.

In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.

God has so arranged the chronometry of our spirits, that there shall be thousands of silent moments between the striking hours.