Quotes About Spirit

Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!

Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of God. No one is excepted, not [even] the infant.

No doubt men may easily think too little of God the Father, and God the Spirit, but no man ever thought too much of Christ.

No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

It's not what a man has but what a man is that's important.

Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.

For the unclean spirit enters easily into a man, and easily goes out from him.

The chiefest action for a man of great spirit is never to be out of action... the soul was never put into the body to stand still.

We need to close every church in the land for one Sunday and cease listening to a man so we can hear the groan of the Spirit which we in our lush pews have forgotten.

The real things about man are not his body.

Every man is a book in which God himself writes.

The man who has been taught by the Holy Spirit will be a seer rather than a scholar. The difference is that the scholar sees and the seer sees through; and that is a mighty difference indeed.

Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds.

I vivi rimasero a casa, infestando il mondo dei morti come fantasmi.

A spirit with a vision is a dream with a mission.

Believers have both the authority to do God's will because of their position in Christ, and the power to do God's will as long as they walk by the Spirit.

For the flesh sets its desire against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are in opposition to one another" (Gal. 5:17). They are in opposition because the Holy Spirit, like Jesus, will not operate independently of our heavenly Father, but the flesh does. The flesh may be defined as existence apart from God—a life dominated by sin or a drive opposed to God. The flesh is self-reliant rather than God-dependent; it is self-centered rather than Christ-centered.

The devil is persistent, but we must never let him set the agenda. We don't negotiate with the enemy, nor do we let him distract us from our calling in life. In the face of opposition, our answer is always the same: I am a child of God, saved by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, and I choose to live my life by faith according to what God says is true in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Dry autumn leaves revolved in your soul.

There was a need to build trust, team spirit, and a sense of shared purpose.

The spirit of policy and that of bureaucracy are diametrically opposed

Who killed Christianity in Europe? Was it, as (Max) Weber himself predicted, that the spirit of capitalism was bound to destroy the Protestant ethic parents, as materialism corrupted the original aestheticism of the godly?

If they lacked the opportunity, the strength of their sprit would have been sapped; if they had lacked ability, the opportunity would have been wasted.

Work helps prevent one from getting old. I, for one, cannot dream of retiring. Not now or ever. Retire? The word is alien and the idea inconceivable to me. I don't believe in retirement for anyone in my type of work, not while the spirit remains. My work is my life. I cannot think of one without the other. To retire means to begin to die. The man who works and is never bored is never old. Work and interest are the best remedy for age. Each day I am reborn. Each day I must begin again.