Quotes About Spirit

Man dies in despair while the Spirit dies in ecstasy.

Wisdom is the understanding of celestial things to which the Spirit is brought by Love.

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

He believed neither in the antecedent animal nor the surviving spirit of man. Desplein had no doubts; he was positive. His bold and unqualified atheism was like that of many scientific men, the best men in the world, but invincible atheists — atheists such as religious people declare to be impossible.

Literature endures like the universal spirit, And its breath becomes a part of the vitals of all men.

They reminded me of the people of my village, their indomitable spirit in the face of disaster, their unshakable belief that no matter what might befall them, life was basically good and the world benign.

I looked like a ghost. And I should know. I've seen a few.

Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit.

In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.

Understanding the spirit of our institutions to aim at the elevation of men, I am opposed to whatever tends to degrade them.

At all times, in all circumstances, Christ is able and willing to provide the strength we need to be content. Contentment occurs when Christ's strength is infused into my weak body, soul, and spirit.

We are no longer kidnapped, for we walk with God and his spirit lives inside us.

When we learn how to battle with the sword of the Spirit, with its two edges of the Word and God's Holy Spirit, the enemy will flee before us.

It is struggle that strengthens and makes us aware, that tempers the spirit and opens the mind's eye.

Traditional Native peoples, on the other hand, have been trained to Listen. They place so much importance on Listening that tribal groups have developed the talking circle ceremony in order to share the inner wisdom that comes from Listening. The primary purpose of the talking circle ceremony is to Listen to people's innermost feelings about an issue. Each participant in the talking circle is a reflection of Spirit, so the words spoken in the circle are considered sacred and holy.

Our survival, our humanity, our worldview and language, our imagination and spirit, our very place in the world depends on our capacity to act for ourselves, to engage in the world and the actions of our colonizers, to face them head on.

I believe that for permanent survival, man must balance science with other qualities of life, qualities of body and spirit as well as those of mind -- qualities he cannot develop when he lets mechanics and luxury insulate him too greatly from the earth to which he was born.

Humph. You have a spirit cougar

When you're Dead ... you stay up all night long.

What we take from the spirit world is only a reflection of what lies inside ourselves.

Familiarity with holy things can often engender blindness, and churches are, for all their merits, institutions that embody, perhaps more than most, the will to perpetuate themselves. In this process, they can easily lose sight of the purpose for which they came into being and, in so doing, frustrate the Spirit.

Soy de la opinión de que en la ceguera hacia la belleza no hay nada que implique necesariamente una ceguera hacia la fealdad, por la que Kevin ha desarrollado desde siempre una notable sensibilidad. Es muy posible que la existencia de tantos y tan diferentes matices entre lo sórdido y lo exquisito tenga por objeto que ni al espíritu más ruin se le niegue todo refinamiento.

Our hero status is not dependant on our human might or power or even our human spirit; it comes from the power of His spirit.

But I realised it wasn't a ghost, it was his SPIRIT and then I realised that a spirit is just another word for a memory, isn't it? The stronger the memory the stronger the spirit. Because as much as I'd love to believe that the spirit lives on as a thing separate to humanity, I know that's not true. It's in our minds, in our hearts, that a person's spirit lives on.