Quotes About Spirit

a man's spirit could be torn apart and cease and yet his body keep on living...His spirit blasted away so that he had become lonesome and estranged from all around him...It seemed a poor swap to find that the only way one might keep from fearing death was to act numb and set apart as if dead already.

Lily's spirit neediness expressed itself raw as a kerosene blaze in the material world.

Most of the travel was purposeless, carried out in exactly the desperate spirit of fleeing from pursuers. It was romantic, in a certain sense. Especially if you're not the one doing it.

The Spirit that God has given us does not make us timid [or fearful]; instead, his Spirit fills us with power, love, and self-control" (2 Timothy 1:7).

People's souls make their bodies, just as a snail makes its shell.

he has discovered that the will of God is not to hate, not to torture, not to cast away from his presence, but to restore his creatures to goodness, that he may thereby restore them to usefulness.  David has discovered that God demands no sacrifice, much less self-torturing penance.  What he demands is the heart.  The sacrifice of God is a troubled spirit.  A broken and a contrite heart he will not despise. 

Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty" (v. 17). This means there is also an absence of expectations.

La meta primordial de la unanimidad es el comportamiento correcto, mientras que la meta de la unidad es tener un espíritu correcto.

Third, God the Spirit will show us how to live and die as we learn how to release whatever has us in its grip. (That last phrase wasn't a mistake.) As long as we're owned by whatever we're clutching, we'll never be given over completely to the Holy Spirit. This would be an excellent moment for you to do some self-analysis. To what, to whom are you clinging? Let it go. Let them go.

When God's in it ... it flows. When the flesh is in it ... it's forced.

Un espíritu humilde, nacido de una profunda convicción de que no somos nada, es una gracia que adorna.

El Espíritu Santo viene para darnos una forma de vida completamente diferente. una vida que se desarrolla en un plano diferente. Se vive por encima de la culpa y la vergüenza, se vive por encima de los temores de la vida. Nos capacita para vivir como vencedores y no como víctimas.

He knew what loss was, how the mind refuses to believe, the way the body aches with a need that can't be satisfied, and the awful, endless desolation of the spirit.

Guilt was—it was the agony of spirit that made every day bleak. The fear that you might not live up to the cost of your survival—that you might not, somehow, justify the whim of fate that let Death miss you and take so many around you.

The best form of saying is being

There's a difference between being a class act and being classy. Peeing off the side of a jeep doesn't mean you're not classy, it just means you're a free spirit with a small bladder.

Everything has its own force and spirit. Seen in this light, inherited folklore beliefs are not just quaint traditions, but part of an active engagement between humans and the 'otherworld', a celestial drama fearsome in its scale and awesome in power.

Beauty is sunlight for my soul.

He lay down again and let the anger flow out of him. He cleansed his spirit, he let the positive powers renew his strength. He purified himself. A

Sometimes I miss the spirit of London, but it's a very gray place.

Animals have a very clear spirit, and they are so open to the world around them that they can easily be mistreated.

The people I choose as models have a quality that seems to contain the past, the present, and the future all at once. It's hard to explain. I can look at 100 people in a room but only find it in one person.

Among the many arguments to be made against cultural revolutions is that they are monotonous in spirit and monomaniacal in intention.

Some days I'm in a good mood and sometimes I'm bad.