Quotes About Spirit

We are spirits clad in veils; Man by man was never seen; All our deep communing fails To remove the shadowy screen.

While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead...While you do not know life, how can you know about death

The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man.

A dead man in Spain is more alive than a dead man anywhere in the world.

An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions. He is neither hot nor timid.

This is the real tragedy of mankind, that until now the spirit of man has not been able to free itself, even along the path of its own development, from the tentacles of self-deception.

The spirit of commerce... renders every man willing to live on his own property...& prevents the growth of luxury.

Dance is the landscape of man's soul.

A boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame.

We believe that all men are the spirit children of God, created in his image. This concept is supported by the Holy Bible from Genesis to Revelation.

A man may just as soon read the Scripture without eyes, as understand the spirit of it without grace.

When you are dead, seek for your resting place not in the earth, but in the hearts of men.

Man's free agency is not of the mind, for that is bound. There is no freedom there.

I will not choose what many men desire, Because I will not jump with common spirits And rank me with the barbarous multitudes.

Man's words are mere breath, but the word of the Lord is spirit and life.

When we undertake to cover our sins, . . . behold, the heavens withdraw themselves; the Spirit of the Lord is grieved; and when it is withdrawn, Amen to the priesthood or the authority of that man

This is still a young man's game, so we have to stay young. Music allows you to do that, especially rock'n'roll.

The man who sticks it out against his fate shows spirit, but the spirit of a fool.

The human spirit may be likened to the bounty of the sun shining on a mirror. The body of man, ... grows and develops through the animal spirit.

A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.

When a man dies, flesh is frayed and broken in the fire, but not his will.

To reform society, and with it humanity, there is only one mean; to transform the mentality of men, to direct them ("les orienter", Fr.) in a new spirit.

Man is God by his faculty for thought.

O SON OF MAN! I loved thy creation, hence I created thee. Wherefore, do thou love Me, that I may name thy name and fill thy soul with the spirit of life.