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Quotes About Spirit

The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.
~ Oscar Wilde
because to influence a person is to give one's own soul.
~ Oscar Wilde
The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat Awake the god of day; and, at his warning, Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine: and of the truth herein This present object made probation.
~ Confucius
Aquellos de espíritu superior entienden la justicia. Los ordinarios, el beneficio.
~ Confucius
people: "I will give them [a] new heart and put a new spirit within them; I will remove the stony heart from their bodies, and replace it with a natural heart
~ Conrad W. Baars
There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment in history or nothing happens.
~ Coretta Scott King
The breath of God was his yet, though it pass from man to man through all of time.
~ Cormac McCarthy
woman said that was all right. She said that the breath of God was his breath yet though it pass from man to man through all of time.
~ Cormac McCarthy
She said that the breath of God was his breath yet though it pass from man to man through all of time
~ Cormac McCarthy
She said that the breath of God was his breath yet though it pass from man to man through all of time. Once
~ Cormac McCarthy
If God meant to interfere in the degeneracy of mankind would he not have done so by now? Wolves cull themselves, man. What other creature could? And is the race of man not more predacious yet? The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the moon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening and the evening of his day.
~ Cormac McCarthy
He is dancing, dancing. He says he'll never die.
~ Cormac McCarthy
For whoever makes a shelter of reeds and hides has joined his spirit to the common destiny of creatures and he will subside back into the primal mud with scarcely a cry.
~ Cormac McCarthy
There are hundreds of political prisoners right now in America's jails who were so taken by Malcolm [X's} spirit that they became warriors and the powers that be understood them as warriors. They knew that a lot of these other middle-class [black] leaders were not warriors; they were professionals; they were careerists. But these warriors had callings, and they have paid an incalculable and immeasurable price in those cells.
~ Cornel West
The only way ghosts can hurt you is through your own fear
~ Cornelia Funke
the spirit of an Heylin, who seems to count no obloquy too hard for a reformer; and the spirit of those (folio-writers there are, some of them, in the English nation!) whom a noble Historian stigmatizes, as, "Those hot-headed, passionate bigots, from whom, 'tis enough, if you be of a religion contrary unto theirs, to be defamed, condemned and pursued with a thousand calumnies.
~ Cotton Mather
I wonder how often evangelical Christians in today's world have completely inverted these priorities, kowtowing to the overly conservative, judgmental insiders and blasting away at the non-Christian world for not adhering to Christian morality. Yet how can we expect non-Christians to pursue Christian morality when they do not have God's Spirit within them, the Spirit who alone makes such obedience possible?
~ Craig Blomberg
Courage what is within is more important than what is without.
~ Cressida Cowell
If the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed (John 8:36).
~ Cynthia Heald
He had become a settled effect in her spirit, a state permanently established, not continuous, but always recurring.
~ D. H. Lawrence
The dead don't die. They look on and help.
~ D.H. Lawrence
Cu tine nu comunic prin simÈ›uri, ci prin spirit. De asta nu ne putem iubi în înÈ›elesul comun. AfecÈ›iunea noastr? nu este dintre acelea pe care le întâlneÈ™ti la tot pasul. ?i totuÈ™i suntem muritori de rând, È™i a tr?i unul al?turi de cel?lalt ar fi cumplit, deoarece cu tine nu pot fi carnal È™i, È™tii tu, a vieÈ›ui de-a pururi mai presus de aceasta a muritorului de rând ar însemna s-o pierzi cu totul.
~ D.H. Lawrence
Different places on the face of the earth have different vital effluence, different vibration, different chemical exhalation, different polarity with different stars: call it what you like. But the spirit of place is a great reality.
~ D.H. Lawrence
You wheedle the soul out of things, he said.
~ D.H. Lawrence