Quotes About Spirit

The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.

Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.

The death of the spirit is the price of progress.

A warrior thinks of death when things become unclear. The idea of death is the only thing that tempers our spirit.

Death is dancing me ragged.

My spirit is too weak--mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky.

The reaper does not listen to the harvest.

Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.

The body's ills are the least of ills, for they end only in death, which is but a little thing. But if the spirit dies, then all is lost.

even though the dead are beyond our touch, they remain fully dimensional, fully capable of affecting our decisions and quandaries.

Death is terrible, tho' borne on angels' wings!

They say the day you die your name is written on a cloud.

Death is the tax the soul has to pay for having a name and a form.

No more let life divide what death can join together.

Death is not the end of who we are. It is only a brief pause in the endless cycle of our lives. Each of us is a spirit that cannot die.

Ao contrário da fatwa proclamada por Khomeini, que condenou à morte Salman Rushdie, a castração corretiva sonhada por Buckley não vinha acompanhada de nenhum incentivo financeiro para possíveis executores. No entanto, foi ditada por um espírito tão exigente quanto o do aiatolá, e em nome de ideais tão elevados quanto os dele.

Paul says that Spirit lives inside us, detecting needs we cannot articulate and expressing them in a language we cannot comprehend. When we don't know what to pray, he fills in the blanks. Evidently, it is our very helplessness that God, too, delights in. Our weakness gives opportunity for his strength.

Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?

El Espíritu no va a quitarnos toda desilusión con Dios. Los mismos títulos que se le dan —intercesor, ayudador, consejero, consolador — llevan implícita la idea de que habrá problemas.

the hospital seemed perfectly designed to immobilize not only his body but his spirit. "The will to live is not a theoretical abstraction, but a physiological reality with therapeutic characteristics," he wrote in Anatomy of an Illness. But the hospital environment tended to stifle that will to live.

I do "good works" for my wife not in order to earn credit but to express my love for her. Likewise, God wants me to serve "in the new way of the Spirit": not out of compulsion but out of desire.

God is present in the Spirit, who groans wordlessly on our behalf and who speaks in a soft voice to all consciences attuned to him.

The common people only see weakness where there is greatness of spirit.

If a woman is interested in her own struggle into identity and power, then she will be interested in other women. The lives of these, and other women, show me what a woman can do even without formal power, education, or rights, in a world dominated by men. They are inspirational examples of the strength of the female spirit.