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Some ghosts haunt you for life. The best you can do is make room on the couch and get used to living with them.

Somehow I know there was something so right about my doing Frankenstein and taking so long over it that I've probably been laying some ghost inside myself. It was a very necessary job for me to do, but it'll take some time to recover from it.

Some ghosts tried to be showy. These were the kinds to avoid.

Some people will tell you werewolves can only shapechange under a full moon, but people also say there's no such things as ghosts.

Something in me was changed by Lincoln in the Bardo, and the great sublime/grotesque risk of [George Saunders'] ghosts was a part of it.

So what, ghosts can't hurt you. That's what I thought then.

Southampton's barrage balloons floated gleaming in the moonlight like the ghosts of elephants and hippos.

So we gave up. I'd finally had enough of chasing after a ghost who did not want to be seen. We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved.

That affable familiar ghost Which nightly gulls him with intelligence.

Submit to me." So she said nothing, but looked doggedly and sadly at the shore, wrapped in its mantle of peace; as if the people there had fallen alseep, she thought; were free like smoke, were free to come and go like ghosts. They have no suffering there, she thought.

Testimony is personal knowledge, based upon the witness of the Holy Ghost, that certain facts of eternal significance are true.

The actual process of travel I really like, because that time on planes and in airports makes me feel like I'm moving around like a ghost. There's a certain aspect of justifiable downtime. I really feel like being online is so pervasive now.

That's how we find our way outward and onward. By holding onto beauty hardest. By cradling it like the cure that it is. By making it realer than anything ever was. The rest is just monsters and ghosts.

The Bible says, "For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost

The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.

The Christian religion is hopeless without the Holy Ghost.

The ghosts of Rilke and Wordsworth--along with the 300+ MFA programs, which now seem to employ all Living Poets--have misled the American public egregiously into thinking that poets are morally pure and/or useless.

The curtain of the universe is moth-eaten, and through its holes we see nothing now but mask and ghost.

The ghosts of things that never happened are worse than the ghosts of things that did.

The ghosts swarm. They speak as one person. Each has left something undone.

The ghosts you chase you never catch.

The ghost is the outward and visible signs of an inward fear.

The good he scorn'd Stalk'd off reluctant, like an ill-us'd ghost, Not to return; or if it did, its visits Like those of angels, short, and far between.

The gift of the Holy Ghost...quicken s all the intellectual faculties.

The Holy Ghost has called me by the gospel and illuminated me with his gifts and sanctified and preserved me in the true faith.

The greatest help you will ever have in this life is the Holy Ghost! Cultivate him as a friend and constant companion.

The Holy Ghost is a comforter and a guide. But it is also a cleansing agent. That is why service in the kingdom is so crucial to enduring. When we are called to serve, we can pray for the Holy Ghost to be our companion with assurance it will come.

The Holy Ghost is not a Sceptic, and He has not inscribed in our hearts uncertain opinions, but, rather, affirmations of the strongest sorts.

The Holy Ghost must here be our only master and tutor.

The Holy Ghost unveils God's Word to us; He reveals the things of God to us.

The highway is alive tonight But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light With the ghost of old Tom Joad.

The house ghost is usually a harmless and well-meaning creature. It is put up with as long as possible. It brings good luck to those who live with it.

The Holy Ghost is certainly the best preacher in the world, and the words of Scripture the best sermons.

The Holy Ghost is the only One who can detect the temptations of Satan, neither our common sense nor our human wisdom can detect them as temptations.

"The Holy Ghost," Luther instructs us, "is not a skeptic." Not everyone can be, and that is really too bad.

The older you get, the more you live with ghosts.

The inmates are ghosts whose dreams have been murdered.

The knowledge and spiritual conviction we receive from the Holy Ghost are the result of revelation.

The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity, dripped melancholy tears after its late buffeting by the waves.

The Lord will grant to any honest person who earnestly seeks to know the truth one manifestation by the Holy Ghost; but he is not entitled to repeated manifestations. After such a revelation is given, he is to act, for the Holy Ghost cannot be appealed to for continued manifestations until after baptism and the gift has been bestowed.

The memory fades, and I’m left hanging on to the ghosts of his words.

The only reason free markets have a ghost of a chance is that they are so much more efficient than any other form of organization.

The opera ghost really existed

The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.

The plan of God for your life is that you should be held captive by His power, doing that which you in the natural world would never do, but that which you are forced to do by the power of the Holy Ghost moving through you.

The Patriarch Joseph, after agreeing with the Latins that their formula of the Holy Ghost proceeding from the Son meant the same as the Greek formula of the Holy Ghost proceeding through the Son, fell ill and died. An unkind scholar remarked that after muddling his prepositions what else could he decently do?

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

The problem with surviving was that you ended up with the ghosts of everyone you’d ever left behind riding on your shoulders.

The power of God, the Holy Ghost, is the Spirit of Dominion.  It makes one a god.

There are haunters of the silence, ghosts that hold the heart and brain.