Quotes About Spirit

The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.

Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.

But the dream is never forgotten, only put aside and never out of reach: Where once the dream connected boys with the world of men, now it reconnects men with the spirit of boys.

Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things.

The greater the man's soul, the deeper he loves.

An animal will conquer others. A Spirit-filled man conquers himself - self-discipline , self-control.

For what is man's soul but a flame? It flickers in and around the body of a man as does the flame around the rough log.

Man, it is not thy works, which are mortal, infinitely little, and the greatest no greater than the least, but only the spirit thou workest in, that can have worth or continuance.

Each man's soul is his genius.

But if the Vision was true and mighty, as I know, it is true and mighty yet;for such things are of Spirit, and it is in the darkness of their eyes that men get lost.

No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.

This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.

A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.

The internal call is when the Spirit of God accompanies the outward administration of the Word to call a man from ignorance to knowledge, and a state of nature to a state of grace.

What a man thinks in his spirit in the world, that he does after his departure from the world when he becomes a spirit.

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.

Man is a piece of the universe made alive

True religion is removed from diet and days, from garments and ceremonies, and placed where it belongs - in the union of the spirit of man with the Spirit of God.

There were angry men confronting me and I caught the flashing of defiant eyes, but above me and within me, there was a spirit stronger than them all.

The most noble cause known to man is the liberation of the human mind and spirit.

A man's body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever.

Alan Ginsberg was fabulous. The man is so filled with energy. He's 65 years old and he's just loaded with energy and charm and wit and his mind is constantly racing.

It [freedom] is a thing of the spirit. Men must be free to worship, to think, to hold opinions, to speak without fear. They must be free to challenge wrong and oppression with the surety of justice.

Man judges of nature in relation to itself; the angelic spirit judges of it in relation to heaven. In short, to the spirits everything speaks.