Spirit Quotes

The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when th...

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit...

I don't believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revo...

Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.

For Ragamuffins, God's name is Mercy. We see our darkness as a prized possession because it drives u...

Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is ...

Humans are amphibians...half spirit and half animal...as spirits they belong to the eternal world, b...

Cada vez que un libro cambia de manos, cada vez que alguien desliza la mirada por sus páginas, su es...

The mixture of the grotesque and the tragic is agreeable to the spirit, as are discords to the jaded...

But why do spirits walk the earth, and why do they come to me?""It is required of every man," the Gh...

In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human l...

The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and...

The Church is everywhere represented as one. It is one body, one family, one fold, one kingdom. It i...

There is such a thing as 'thanks-feeling' - feeling thankful. This ought to be the general, universa...

There were two forests for every one you entered. There was the one you walked in, the physical echo...

Everything has a spirit and it's all connected. If you think about that, if you live your life by it...

The faerie represent the beauty we don't see, or even choose to ignore. That's why I'll paint them i...

And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your...

Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirit...

All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.

Ma? I think you have the spirit of husband-repelling. You are too hard, ma, you will not find a husb...

Where there are no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts and no one to thank.

Man knows himself as body, and what he knows of spirit comes through grace. The poet would call it i...

The nineteenth century was the Age of Romanticism; for the first time in history, man stopped thinki...

We can give away all that He entrusts to us in the same spirit of generosity.

To get rid of a spiritual problem, we need to pull it up by its spiritual root. To pull up roots, we...

We have to forego some good things in order to choose others that are better or best because they de...

Scientific advancement carries risk,” Kohler argued. “It always has. Space programs, genetic researc...

Her eyes were clear; she hadn't been crying. She was a cop's wife first, a woman second; she wouldn'...

Stormy Llewellyn, a woman of unconventional views, believes instead that our passage through this wo...

He wondered why it was easier to believe in a malevolent spirit than in a benign one. Sometimes it s...

True, the body's easily maimed, and the spirit can be crippled - yet there's that in a man that is n...

The subject dropped, and we sat on in the dusk that was rapidly deepening into night. The door into ...

We move between two darknesses.

When Nureyev appeared in San Francisco not long ago there were quite a few ballet fans who flew all ...

Being content with what you have already is an art form that leads to a peace that can’t be replaced...

The child is taught form earliest consciousness that she has these four brothers with her in the wor...

People are unaware that spirits even exist, let alone that angels are present with them.

He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her...

The sedentary life...is the real sin against the holy spirit.

Water is sufficient...the spirit moves over water.

Under Christianity neither morality nor religion has any point of contact with actuality. It offers ...

Here all great emotions decay: here only little, dry emotions may rattle!Do you not smell already th...

Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the pa...

How concrete everything becomes in the world of the spirit when an object, a mere door, can give ima...

Patience strengthens the spirit, sweetens the temper, stifles anger, extinguishes envy, subdues prid...

Some dreams, some poems, some musical phrases, some pictures, wake feelings such as one never had be...

I challenge every one of you who can hear me to rise to the divinity within you. Do we really realiz...

We take it for granted that Jesus was not interested in political life: his mission was purely relig...

Colors shone with exceptional clarity in the rain. The ground was a deep black, the pine branches a ...

Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form...

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.

She was a coquette; he was sure she had a spirit of her own; but in her bright, sweet, superficial l...

There are those of poor spirit and there are those of great spirit. None are without it but the flam...

Every day the choice is presented to us, in a thousand different ways, to live up to the spirit whic...

When a desperate, hungry spirit appears and makes the guinea pigs squeal it is because he knows wher...

We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of ...

I understand you well. Now we have no need to dispute: you are awake, and so you have seen the diffe...

Like billowing clouds, Like the incessant gurgle of the brook,The longing of the spirit can never be...

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

The willingness to undertake such action cannot be based on certainties, but on those possibilities ...

Her purity of spirit would never be in doubt, though she moved through a blemished world.

Romanticism embodied "a new and restless spirit, seeking violently to burst through old and cramping...

The Holy Spirit alone can do this, the Holy Spirit alone can establish this link with one's neighbor...

When you are at a loss of words then go with your feelings. If you feel nothing you must rely on you...

My innocence is not lost—it has been converted into wisdom. The sensation we call "breaking" is the ...

Spirit is like the wind, in that we can't see it but can see its effects, which are profound.

Self is that which dies...Spirit is that which lives...forever.

What you feed in yourself that grows.

You are aware of only one unrest;Oh, never learn to know the other!Two souls, alas, are dwelling in ...

O my Mansoul, I have lived, I have died, I live, and I will die no more for thee. I live that thou m...

There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.

When the organization called soul is free, moving and operative, initial as well as terminal, it is ...

the true knowledge is disciplined and tested knowledge,—not the first thought that comes, so the tru...

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

The soul would have no rainbow, had the eyes no tears.

To explain this a little further: Only the soul and the body are the natural constituent parts of me...

The monks' response was to climb into their curraghs and row off toward Greenland. They were drawn a...

A poor man is not disposed to quick and high resentment when he is among the rich: he is apt to yiel...

We are snared into doing things for which we get called names, and things for which we get hanged, a...

The spirit gone, man is garbage.

A panther poised in the cypress tree about to jump is apanther poised in a cypress tree about to jum...

The point of the overall meditative path is to have Wakefulness (or Consciousness as Such) transcend...

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

I was aware of something stable in his nature. Ha game me a feeling of security, as if nothing I sai...

Highly evolved people have their own conscience as pure law.

People up today and down tomorrow, working this week and fired the next, beaten and baffled, but det...

Who is left in the ghetto is the one man in a thousand in any age, in any culture, who through some ...

Then he had looked on his spirit as his I; now, it was his healthy strong animal I that he looked up...

There are many faiths, but the spirit is one — in me, and in you, and in him. So that if everyone be...

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.

Lords of spirit, Lords of breath,Lords of fireflies, stars, and light,Who will keep the world from d...

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires ...

For even if we have the sensation of being always surrounded by our own soul, it is not as though by...

Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the end...

The only way to gain power in a world that is moving too fast is to learn to slow down. And the only...

The Indian may seem poor to we rich Westerners but in matters of the spirit it is we who are the pau...

Asking the question of being is one of the essential and fundamental conditions for the awakening of...