Quotes About Spirit

A healthy body is a guest-chamber for the soul; a sick body is a prison.

The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.

All bonafide revolutions are of necessity revolutions of the spirit.

Change the fabric of your own soul and your own visions, and you change all.

Developing a cheerful disposition can permit an atmosphere wherein one's spirit can be nurtured and encouraged to blossom and bear fruit. Being pessimistic and negative about our experiences will not enhance the quality of our lives.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow, and of the man who leads, that gains the victory.

Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to the perfect Christian.

It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more "manhood" to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.

In true courage there is always an element of choice, of an ethical choice, and of anguish, and also of action and deed. There is always a flame of spirit in it, a vision of some necessity higher than oneself.

In the beginning God created the Heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light; and there was light.

It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that, to break a man's spirit is devil's work.

Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh ... to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies.

Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

The true spirit of delight, the exultation, the sense of being more than Man which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.

Enthusiasm is the most beautiful word on earth.

Enthusiasm moves the world.

Pm convinced that it's energy and humor. The two of them combined equal charm.

When his enthusiasm goes, he's through as a player.

The only thing that keeps a man going is energy. And what is energy but liking life?

Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

He fights with spirit as well as with the sword.

Whether we name divine presence synchronicity, serendipity, or graced moment matters little. What matters is the reality that our hearts have been understood. Nothing is as real as a healthy dose of magic which restores our spirits.

What is there in man so worthy of honor and reverence as this, that he is capable of contemplating something higher than his own reason, more sublime than the whole universe- that Spirit which alone is self-subsis-tent, from which all truth proceeds, without which there is no truth?

He is more within us than we are ourselves.