Best 3319 quotes in «spirit quotes» category

I remain convinced that most human conflicts can be solved through genuine dialogue conducted with a spirit of openness and reconciliation.

I scourge both flesh and spirit because I know that I have offended in both flesh and spirit.

I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit - audacious and irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to social change.

I say, of the Congress, then, this - that its aims are mistaken, that the spirit in which it proceeds towards their accomplishment is not a spirit of sincerity and whole-heartedness, and that the methods it has chosen are not the right methods, and the leaders in whom it trusts, not the right sort of men to be leaders; - in brief, that we are at present the blind led, if not by the blind, at any rate by the one-eyed.

I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. The game's afoot; Follow your spirit: and upon this charge, Cry — God for Harry! England and Saint George!

I see in the melody of Nature, God. It is a wonderful work of art. The spirit of the art is wonderful. And I feel that I am myself because I have never taken music lightly. Music is the manifestation of God, like everything else.

I see a woman may be made a fool, If she had not a spirit to resist.

Is it strange, then, that in a literature so concerned with realism and with personal liberation this refusal and impoverishment of the life of the spirit have always nourished the screamers, the eccentrics, the pseudo-Whitmans, the calculating terrorists?

Israel has incredible entrepreneurial spirit and a deep bench of technology talent.

Is there a place here for the spirit ? Is there time on this brief platform for anything other than mind 's failure to explain itself?

I seldom know what I'm going to write when I sit down. There isn't much agony and sweat of the human spirit involved in doing it. The writing's easy, it's the living that is sometimes difficult.

I sense a thousand strands of sorrow are sewn into an inch of my spirit.

I suggest that you do not get involved in channeling, tapping into spirits not physically present. Your own mind has the ability to properly reflect and determine what is correct and what is not.

I think Catholicism took root very quickly in Ireland because it's a very superstitious religion, the holy ghost, the holy spirit, it has a goddess, very visual, the music.

It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward.

I think I'm like a free spirit.

I think everyone should sing - it's so good for you, as it makes you breathe deeply, and it's good for you emotionally, too. It's a brilliant release way of lifting the spirits.

It appears an extraordinary thing to me, that since there is such a diabolical spirit in the depravity of human nature, as persecution for difference of opinion in religious tenets, there never happened to be any inquisition, any auto da fe, any crusade, among the Pagans.

I think my favorite for music and spirit is Ray Gomez.

I think that is a great, great thing, to create your own identity and foster a true family spirit.

It breaks my heart because there are some parts I know I would have the right spirit for, and I just don't get them because I have an accent.

I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive.

I think the Bible is hugely patriarchal. There are so many sexist comments and homophobic comments and comments that are not in keeping with nurturing and loving the human spirit.

I think the Swedish Academy wished to manifest its solidarity with the living spirit of Greece today.

I think too much importance is placed on spirit guides. They involve looking outside of ourselves to do it, to fix it, to tell us what to do.

I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.

I think there are a lot of closet charismatics out there. A lot of [clergy] personally have had their vocations saved because of their experience of Christ and the Holy Spirit through the renewal, but they discovered it wasn't cool [to say so out loud] because it was considered fringe. They got the message from the environment not to talk about it very much. I think the time has come for the closet charismatics to come out.

It is against the spirit of ahimsa to overawe even one person into submission.

It is better to have crooked legs than a crooked spirit. We can only do the best we can with what we have. That, after all, is the measure of success: what we do with what we have.

It is by desiring to grow in love that we receive the Holy Spirit, and the thirst for more charity is the effect of this more abundant reception.

I think the Chainsaw remake is very good and captures the spirit of the original film. It's true to the tone of the original, to the point that it's almost a companion piece

It is a giggle full of high spirits and merry mischief, proof that we never lose our girlish selves, no matter what sort of women we become.

It is as hard a thing to maintain a sound understanding, a tender conscience, a lively, gracious, heavenly spirit, and an upright life in the midst of contention, as to keep your candle lighted in the greatest storms.

It is better to make a mistake with full force of your being than to carefully avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit.

It is at times such as this that we show our true spirit of giving and of brotherhood - of revealing the good Samaritan in all of us.

It is easier to communicate with spirits than for one university department to communicate with another.

It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance

It is fine to stand upon some lofty mountain thought, and feel the spirit stretch into a view.

It is great and manly to disdain disguise; it shows our spirit and proves our strength.

It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.

It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.

It is in between your thoughts, where you will discover your greatest FLOW from Spirit.

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

It is in times of great tragedy when the true spirit of our wonderful country unites as one.

It is necessary for us to understand that the only Active Principle is Spirit.

It is necessary that I should die for my people; but my spirit will rise from the grave and the whole world will know that I was right.

It is highly dangerous to receive the truths of the Bible with human wisdom, for this is a hidden and subtle method which invariably causes a believer to perfect with his flesh the work of the Holy Spirit.

It is not by change of circumstances, but by fitting our spirits to the circumstances in which God has placed us, that we can be reconciled to life and duty.

It is impossible to overestimate the importance of being filled with the Spirit.

It is not necessarily poverty of spirit that makes a woman surround herself with life - it can be a superabundance of interest.