Quotes About Spirit

Why do you allow these men who are in power to rob you step by step, openly and in secret, of one domain of your rights after another, until one day nothing, nothing at all will be left but a mechanised state system presided over by criminals and drunks? Is your spirit already so crushed by abuse that you forget it is your right - or rather, your moral duty - to eliminate this system? - 3rd Leaflet of the White Rose

Every time you deny a desire, ignore a passion, neglect a true calling or silence a truth within you, your SPIRIT fades. Follow your BLISS!

YOU are a FREE spirit. JOY is your NATURAL state of BEING. Everything else is conditioned.

Cultivate an attitude of happiness. Cultivate a spirit of optimism. Walk with faith, rejoicing in the beauties of nature, in the goodness of those you love, in the testimony which you carry in your heart concerning things divine.

The things of God are understood by the Spirit of God. That Spirit is real. To those who have experienced its workings, the knowledge so gained is as real as that which is acquired through the operation of the five senses. I testify of this.

Let us be happy people. The Lord's plan is a plan of happiness. The way will be lighter, the worries will be fewer, the confrontations will be less difficult if we cultivate a spirit of happiness.

The key to life in the Spirit for some is to spend much more quiet time in thanksgiving and praise for what God has done—and is doing, and promises to do—and less time on introspection, focused on your failure to match up to the law.

Our theology and experience of the Spirit must be more interwoven if our experienced life of the Spirit is to be more effective.

One reads Paul poorly who does not recognize that for him the presence of the Spirit, as an experienced and living reality, was the crucial matter for Christian life, from beginning to end.

By the presence of the Spirit, God's love, played out to the full in Christ, is an experienced reality in the heart of the believer. This is what the Spirit has so richly "shed abroad in our hearts." If we are not thus overtaken by God himself at this crucial point, then all else is lost, and we are without peace, groveling before God, living with little real hope, and experiencing present sufferings as a cause for complaint and despair rather than for "boasting.

First, we must recognize his own sense of continuity with his heritage. Paul sees himself and his churches as being in a direct line with the people of God in the Old Testament; and despite his deep convictions about the radical implications of the coming of Christ and the Spirit, he regularly reaffirms that continuity. He includes a primarily Gentile church in the events of the exodus: "all our forefathers were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea" (1 Cor 10:1–2).

own spirits (Rom 8:16), has desires that are in opposition to the flesh (Gal 5:17), helps us in our weakness (Rom 8:26), intercedes in our behalf (Rom 8:26–27), works all things together for our ultimate good (Rom 8:28),[5] strengthens believers (Eph 3:16), and is grieved by our sinfulness (Eph 4:30). Furthermore, the fruit of the Spirit's indwelling are the personal attributes of God (Gal 5:22–23).

What is God?" and answers, "God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth.

At a certain point, age becomes a triumph of spirit over loneliness.

Lord, make my heart a place where angels sing!

The grave is the gateway through which we are all borne home: the body by man, the soul by angels.

Spirit can walk, spirit can swim, spirit can climb, spirit can crawl. There is no terrain you cannot overcome.

Beauty is the spirit of Nature peering through the gloom of sin.... Beauty is Nature's memory of Eden.

Old books are leather-bound ghosts.

Breath is Spirit. The act of breathing is Living.

There is one way of breathing that is shameful and constricted. Then, there's another way: a love-breath that takes you all the way to infinity.

So remember while December Brings the only Christmas Day In the year let there be Christmas In the things we do and say Wouldn't life be worth the living Wouldn't dreams be coming true If we kept the Christmas spirit All the whole year through.

Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts.

Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.