Quotes About Spirit

The primal spirit loves stillness, and the conscious spirit loves movement.

The sexuality of a man is more of the earth, the sexuality of a woman is more of the spirit. The spirituality of man is more heaven, it goeth to the greater. The spirituality of a woman is more of the earth, it goeth to the smaller.

but both are necessary for a creative, whole life. "Fire is spirit, water is vitality. Alchemists sometimes say that Buddhism starts with fire while Taoism starts with water."134

When a person has found the method of making thoughts and energy harmonize with one another... spirit and energy are pure and clear; the heart is empty, human nature (lising) manifest, and the light of consciousness transforms itself into the light of human nature. If one continues to hold firmly the light of human nature, the Abysmal [water, K'an] and the Clinging (fire, Li) have intercourse spontaneously.

The life of the spirit comes from the prior death of the mind. If people kill the mind, the original comes alive. Killing the mind does not mean quietism, it means undivided concentration.29

He seemed touched by a larger spirit, his course guided by something beyond him, so talented, so able, so good-natured that he did not even inspire envy in a city rich with envy.

In the beginning, God the Father spoke the Word over the face of the deep, where the Holy Spirit hovered. The Holy Spirit took the seed of the Word of God and moved upon it, causing all of creation to come into existence.

The Holy Spirit is the Expert Spirit, and His touch improves every action of the believer.

The Holy Spirit gives freedom from the past, joy for the moment, and faith for the future.

starting with Martin Luther's rebellion against the Church of Rome in 1517, led to widespread religious wars founded on philosophical differences: one side took Church authority and tradition as the criterion of truth, the other appealed instead to the Spirit of God acting within the individual believer.

Those who, from a pretended respect to antiquity, appeal at every turn to an original plan for the constitution, only cover their turbulent spirit and their private ambition under the appearance of venerable forms.

Our bodies are an expression of our minds, emotions, and spirit.

What is essential here is the presence of the spirit of dialogue, which is in short, the ability to hold many points of view in suspension, along with a primary interest in the creation of common meaning.

Inward holiness will produce outward holiness, but the outward appearance of holiness is worthless without inward holiness. For example, a modest spirit will produce modest dress, but modest dress is of little value if it conceals a lustful heart.

Let us go one step further and say that other people's consciousnesses can affect your body too. We see that in prayer. Prayer is an expression of consciousness. It is a type of energy. This leads us to a corollary thought that spiritual energy and consciousness are close, and your spirit interacts with consciousness. When you project your consciousness to others, you are actually sending them energy on a subatomic level.

The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?

Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the artist to new heights if it does not cripple him or her.

I did not tremble to lose what men called beauty, but I feared the loss of my spirit and humor and love of living, the things I believed made my soul human and vibrant.

The spirit of Missions is the spirit of our Master: the very genius of His religion. A diffusive philanthropy is Christianity itself. It requires perpetual propagation to attest its genuineness.

The pugnacious spirit is one of the necessities of life. When people have little or none of it, they are subjected to indignity and loss. My own men walk into houses where we pass the nights without asking any leave, and steal cassava without shame. I have to threaten and thrash to keep them honest, while if we are at a village where the natives are a little pugnacious they are as meek as sucking doves. The

The ministry of Christianity is the ministry of the Spirit. It is the Spirit of God that inhabits the words, that speaks to the spirit of another and reveals Christ in and through him.

God breathes through us so completely...So gently we hardly feel it...yet it is our everything.

The Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, is God's "I Will" to every seeker for full salvation of spirit, soul and body.

What people have to realize is that if one has a firm belief in God and the spirit then one does not make statements that are negative and untrue.