Quotes About Spirit

Knowledge was no blessing; awareness was a disease that stained the entire spirit.

Why not under the moon," the historian muttered. "Cool night air, stars high overhead with every spirit looking down. Now that would ensure success!" Bult

The dead speak in silences and so never leave us in peace.

The legacy of the deed remained in the Edur's brutal enslavement of Tiste Andii spirits. Faith was proved a lie, and in ignorance was found weakness. The righteousness of the Edur stood on shifting sands.

Death is stillness. And stillness does not belong among the living. A

The verge between sea and land marked the manifestation of the symbolic transition between the known and the unknown. Between life and death, spirit and mind, between an unlimited host of elements and forces contrary yet locked together. Lives were given to the seas, treasures were flung into their depths. And, upon the waters themselves, ships and their crews were dragged into the deep time and again.

Rake was an atmosphere, a heart-thudding, terror-threaded presence no-one could ignore, much less escape. Violence, antiquity, sombre pathos, and darkest horror – the Son of Darkness was a gelid eddy in immortality's current, and the Mhybe could feel, crawling beneath her very skin, every Rhivi spirit awakened in desperation.

This is where our bones will rest, humps and ripples in the sand. Then, one day, even those signs will be gone. We've reached the shore, where Hood awaits and no one else. A journey of the spirit as much as of the flesh. I welcome the end to both.

Yet this tough, pragmatic man with his finely tuned sense of justice and honor also had a huge, vulnerable heart and respect for the creative spirit that verged on the awestruck.

To be like Christ requires us to be full of joy and gladness.

There is a kind of preaching that God blesses, specifically the proclamation that exalts the crucified Christ by the power of the Spirit. Conversely, there is a kind of preaching that God does not bless, a mere echoing of man's empty wisdom that is devoid of Christ.

Uma visão vulgar de Deus conduz somente à mediocridade. Entretanto, uma visão elevada de Deus inspira santidade e um espírito resoluto.

The flesh is always self-reliant, while the Spirit creates Christ-reliance. The flesh always trusts in its performance; the Spirit gives confidence in Christ's performance.

I am a caged bird, rattling the bars of my cage, with furious flutterings, break my chains! Free my spirit! Let me fly with the wings you have drawn upon my soul with heaven dipped ink

A soul is only set free when it becomes constrained by the bonds of love.

it is okay to make exceptions to the letter of the policy to maintain the spirit of the policy

The stakes are too high,' he said. 'High stakes, high rewards!' I said. Or as my warrior brother likes to say, 'No spirit, no splendor!

He was like a spirit cut free from reality. He was adrift, helpless, insubstantial.

Her words cast a stone into the pool of my soul; the ripples they caused were fierce and shallow, but the knowledge itself sank deep into my spirit and lodged there in the dark, deep currents; immutable.

It was a sacrifice. At that moment, she realized that Valraven too was a sacrifice. Not one of blood, but of something else, perhaps spirit. He had been sacrificed to Madragore.

The whole production sizzled with his personal observations, his discontent, he misplaced spirit of renewal. I gave them life, I think, but in such a way that no one could guess his intention. That was my revenge, which I knew he would notice.

The dragon is the spirit of the world, inherent in every living thing, and even in inanimate objects. Its claw is deadly. It can rake out the eyes of a nation, sunder its heart.

My beautiful one," he said. "Daniel. My eyes, my ears, my tongue, my heart." "Indeed, he is beautiful," Ainzu agreed. "Look well, for you look upon your own spirit. That is what Daniel represents. Is he not a lamb to your lion? Have you not lain down together?

Ainzu, my spirit is not beautiful. Lions devour the sweetest of lambs, for that is their nature." "Indeed, you are the beast," Ainzu said. "And is not the beast of the earth? And is the earth not beautiful?