Quotes About Spirit

The Book of Latina Women celebrates stories of the spirit and the resiliency of Latinas whose contributions have shaped history. Though the term Latina is relatively new, the spirit that goes with it carries an important legacy. For centuries, Latina women have inspired us beyond words. Their actions have sparked great change, and their spirit has made its mark on our contemporary world.

His spirits, sharpened by disliking the bishop as an appetite is sharpened by pickles, took an upward turn.

The white sails still fly seaward, seaward flyingUnbroken wings.And the lost heart stiffens and rejoicesIn the lost lilac and the lost sea voicesAnd the weak spirit quickens to rebelFor the bent goldenrod and the lost sea smell.

The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air.

The heart can see things invisible to the eye.

God never had to reach into the ground again, because the power to transform was intrinsically placed into man. All types of potential were locked into our spirits before birth. For the Christian, transformation at its optimum is the outworking of the internal. God placed certain things in us that must come out. We house the prophetic power of God. Every word of our personal prophetic destiny is inside us. He has ordained us to be.

May we cry out for an infilling of the Holy Ghost that we might be enabled to pray in the Spirit and walk in a greater anointing

You can take the people out of the city, but you can't take the soul — that remains here.

The Good Life is not the life of reason alone, but that of the dominance of reason over the spirited energies and the bodily appetites.

Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.

I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before.

Students of Seido karate make a commitment to train as hard as they can to develop mind, body and spirit into harmony and balance.

Corruption is taken for granted, even grudgingly admired: the guerrilla cunning of the colonised is still ingrained into us, and tax evasion and shady deals are seen as forms of the same spirit of rebellion that hid horses and seed potatoes from the British.

When you know someone in the flesh, you know that person only in part," he told her. "A man's teachings are more important than his flesh form. Flesh is an illusion.

The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.

The act of challenging schemas can take on the warrior spirit of wrathful compassion

my soul's far better part…

It is said that peace is the basic tenet of all religion. Yet it is in the name of religion that there has been so much disturbance, bloodshed and persecution. It is indeed a pity that even at the close of the twentieth century we've had to witness such atrocities because of religion. Flying the flag of religion has always proved the easiest way to crush to nothingness human beings as well as the spirit of humanity.

surcease, and this Keptah noted. The force of the spirit, he reflected, can often keep death at bay, and faith can sometimes accomplish the impossible.

Un hombre no debe ser enteramente del mundo, a menos que pierda su alma, ni debe ser enteramente del espíritu, a menos que pierda su humanidad.

La fuerza del espíritu, pensó, puede con frecuencia mantener a la muerte a raya; y la fe, conseguir en ocasiones lo imposible.

No hay nada más noble que la ley, pues distingue a los hombres de las bestias, porque éstas se rigen tan sólo por el instinto y el hombre es gobernado por las leyes de su espíritu y por tanto es libre.

Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the clouds and the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?

Our lives are in the hands of the Great Spirit. He gave to our ancestors the lands which we possess. We are determined to defend them, and if it is His will, our bones shall whiten on them, but we will never give them up.