Quotes About Spirit

Yes, but I don't think of the Teen Angel as of an age.

...there is no old age of the soul.

There can be no doubt that Samuel Marchbanks is one of the choice and master spirits of this age. If there were such a volume as Who Really Ought To Be Who his entry would require several pages.

The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.

The spirit of the age is not synonymous with what the public likes.

The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously suburban in spirit.

We are connected with our own age if we recognize ourselves in relation to outside events; and we have grasped its spirit when we influence the future.

Whether they be young in spirit, or young in age, the members of the Democratic Party must never lose that youthful zest for new ideas and for a better world, which has made us great.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.

We have not been left alone. We have the light of Christ and the Holy Ghost to lead and guide us in an otherwise very dark and dreary world.

It was at that moment he realized that his spirit was truly human once more. For he no longer remembered how to be alone without being lonely.

And yet love obstinately answers that no loved one is standardized. A body, love insists, is neither a spirit nor a machine; it is not a picture, a diagram, a chart, a graph, an anatomy; it is not an explanation; it is not a law. It is precisely and uniquely what it is. It belongs to the world of love, which is a world of living creatures, natural orders and cycles, many small, fragile lights in the dark.

Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one's own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence.

The Bible's aim, as I read it, is not the freeing of the spirit from the world. It is the handbook of their interaction.

Disco will... never be over. Disco will always live in our minds and hearts. Something like this, that was this big and this important and this great, will never die.

Man is spirit--that is all man needs to know; and spirit is triumphant over matter.

Maybe that's what a ghost is - a presence of the dead in the dreams of the living.

The course of this narrative describes the return of a disembodied spirit to earth, and leads the reader on new and strange ground.

I have heard, as everybody else has, of a spirit's haunting a house ; but I have had my own personal experience of a house's haunting a spirit.

life means for us constantly to transform into light and flame all that we are or meet with";1

For every thing that lives is Holy.

Exuberance is beauty.

Energy is eternal delight.