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Quotes About Spirit

All nature ... is a respiration Of the Spirit of God, who, in breathing hereafter Will inhale it into his bosom again, So that nothing but God alone will remain.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Nature is not matter only. She is also a spirit.
~ Carl Jung
Fermentation is the exhalation of a substance through the admixture of a ferment which, by virtue of its spirit, penetrates the mass and transforms it into its own nature.
~ Andreas Libavius
If you're smart or rich or lucky Maybe you'll beat the laws of man But the inner laws of spirit And the outer laws of nature No man can
~ Joni Mitchell
The soul of a landscape, the spirits of the elements, the genius of every place will be revealed to a loving view of nature.
~ Karl Jaspers
If, therefore, there is any grace in the water, it is not from the nature of water but from the Spirit's presence there.
~ Saint Basil
Marriage is not a union merely between two creatures - it is a union between two spirits; and the intention of that bond is to perfect the nature of both.
~ Frederick William Robertson
The nature of the leadership spirit is the inherent desire of all mankind to control and regulate both environment and circumstance.
~ Myles Munroe
Expand Thy wings, celestial Dove, brood o'er our nature's night; on our disordered spirits move, and let there now be light.
~ Charles Wesley
The inner nature of man is the province of Music.
~ Confucius
Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.
~ Wilhelm Dilthey
Aikido is love. It is the path that brings our heart into oneness with the spirit of the universe to complete our mission in life by instilling in us a love and reverence for all of nature.
~ Morihei Ueshiba
Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whether love of friend, love of country, love of God, or even love of enemy—love reveals to us the truly miraculous nature of the human spirit.
~ Ruta Sepetys
The spirit that I am advocating is reframing how we view the world, and shifting from the negativity of lack and "not enough" to the positive frame of aligning with Nature.
~ Frances Moore Lappé
The adventure of the sun is the great natural drama by which we live, and not to have joy in it and awe of it, not to share in it, is to close a dull door on nature's sustaining and poetic spirit.
~ Henry Beston
Words and action in movies are the spirit or the mind. And these days the body is almost completely forgotten. In the beginning the body - nature - was more part of the action.
~ Jean-Luc Godard
E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.
~ Thomas Gray
Every rebellion which is not in its own nature self-destructive, is an expression of the divine spirit.
~ Paul Carus
Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
~ William Cowper
Ill-nature is a sort of running sore of the disposition.
~ Josh Billings
It is part of the unceasing human endeavor to prove that the spirit of man can transcend the flaws of his own nature.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
Man in his true nature is substance, soul, spirit.
~ Swami Vivekananda
The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.
~ Sigmund Freud