Quotes About Spirit

Mientras mi cuerpo sabía qué anhelaba, mi espíritu rechazaba cada clamor de mi cuerpo. De pronto me sentía avergonzado, atemorizado; de pronto tenía un optimismo febril. Los tabúes me estrangulaban.

To wonder at trifles – no matter the imminent peril – these asides of the spirit, these footnotes in the volume of life are the highest form of consciousness, and it is in this childishly speculative state of mind, so different from common sense and its logic, that we know the world to be good.

We buried him high on a windy hill, But his soul went out to sea. I know, for I heard, when all was still, His sea-soul say to me: Put no tombstone at my head, For here I do not make my bed. Strew no flowers on my grave, I've gone back to the wind and wave. Do not, do not weep for me, For I am happy with my sea.

Of course Covarrubias wasn't a negro, but how he caught the darky spirit!

The spirit of the valley never dies.It is called the subtle and profound female.The gate of the subtle and profound femaleIs the root of Heaven and Earth.It is continuous, and seems to be always existing.Use it and you will never wear it out.

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

I assume the Spirit is always whispering, "Abba", to God's children, assuring them that they are safe in His care. And he is continually calling them to become what God saved them to be, solid people, indestructibly alive, hurting perhaps, but consumed with pleasing the Father.

We'll never abandon ourselves to the Spirit as long as we think we can change without Him.

He has created the Church to be a dynamic, growing, changing movement, not a static doctrine. The Spirit of God calls each generation to re-imagine church for its own context and culture. The Holy Spirit invites every generation into the struggle to discover answers and approaches for themselves about church-answers that bring them into fresh partnership with God and fresh contact with their culture.

They feared the giants instead of God. They focused on the problems instead of the promises. They saw walled cities instead of the will of God. And because they missed what the Spirit was saying, they wandered in the desert 40 years. They died there and their bones bleached in the wilderness.

Nothing can defeat the spirit of the earth. The fairies know that the earth will not tolerate the men much longer. The earth, scarred and gouged and stripped and bombed, will deny life to the men in order to stop the men. The fairies have left the men's reality in order to destroy it by making a new one.

Moreover, this living God is also supremely the one who created life and continues to give life.

If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through his Spirit which dwells in you.

The first man, Adam, became a living soul; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit" (1 Cor 15:45 NRSV),

In the OT the divine Spirit is typically manifested as a special power from "God" given to individuals to enable them for particular tasks or roles.

NT texts discourse about the divine Spirit is shaped by this link with Jesus.

When we consider the extracanonical texts of ancient Jewish tradition, the divine Spirit is most often associated with prophecy.8 This is the case in texts from a Palestinian provenance (e.g., Jub. 25:14; 31:12; 1 En. 91:1; 1QS 8:15-16)

Furthermore, they portray their experiences of the Spirit as a foretaste and confirmation of eschatological hopes and signs that full redemption is near. This contributes to the excitement that one detects in

and those that reflect a more overtly Hellenized influence (Philo, but also Josephus). In his extensive analysis of references to the divine Spirit in selected Jewish texts, Levison concluded, "Among the effects of the [divine] spirit prophecy is most pervasive," noting that Philo, Josephus, and Pseudo-Philo even occasionally add references to the divine Spirit in discussions of OT prophets/prophecy,

Levison pointed out, however, that in ancient Jewish texts the divine Spirit is also associated with creation of the world, sanctification of the righteous, eschatological blessings, and human enablement.

The Qumran texts are also of interest in reflecting a preference for the expressions "Holy Spirit" and "Spirit of Holiness

that there is simply a far greater place of the Spirit in the religious discourse in the NT texts, obviously reflected in the far greater frequency of references to the Spirit.

this far greater frequency and prominence of references to the Spirit in the NT likely reflects the religious life and discourse of early Christian circles generally.

the quantity of references to the Spirit in the Qumran texts reflects an intense piety and likely the cultivation of religious experiences in which divine blessings of the last days were believed to be already bestowed (corporate worship being a prime setting for such experiences).