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The passion of vanity has its own depths in the spirit, and is powerfully militant.

The particular sin of omission which gives ground to the evil spirits is the believer’s passivity.

The Peace Corps is guilty of enthusiasm and a crusading spirit. But we're not apologetic about it.

The phrase, 'Emancipation of Women' is only an invention of the Jewish intellect and its content is stamped with the same spirit. In the really good periods of German life the German woman never needed to emancipate herself.

The pioneering spirit is less about thinking up new ideas, as ridding ourselves of dogmas and habits that hold us captive in thinking.

The plundering of the human spirit by the market place is paralleled by the plundering of the earth by capital.

The poets, therefore, however much they adorned the gods in their poems, and amplified their exploits with the highest praises, yet very frequently confess that all things are held together and governed by one spirit or mind.

The portal of healing and creativity always takes us into the realm of the spirit.

The power of belief, of God is beyond what mere mortals can Imagine. There is no restrictions in my Life. If I do what I love, work night and day, and I'm open to the spirits. that's when the "Greats" take over.

The power of a painting has to come from the inside out, not the outside in. It's not just an image. It's an image with a body and that body has to contain its spirit...What's behind it decides everything. How it starts will define how it ends.

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

The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously suburban in spirit.

The priest is not and must not be a civil servant of the Church. Above all the priest is a man who lives for the spirit for God. This being the case the Seminary is the place where he learns 'to be with Him.'

The presumption of innocence is not just a legal concept. In commonplace terms, it rests on that generosity of spirit which assumes the best, not the worst, of the stranger.

The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.

The principle of the Constitution is that of a separation of legislative, Executive and Judiciary functions, except in cases specified. If this principle be not expressed in direct terms, it is clearly the spirit of the Constitution, and it ought to be so commented and acted on by every friend of free government.

The prophetic spirit is transferable and can be imparted.

The publication in 1859 of the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin made a marked epoch in my own mental development, as it did in that of human thought generally. Its effect was to demolish a multitude of dogmatic barriers by a single stroke, and to arouse a spirit of rebellion against all ancient authorities whose positive and unauthenticated statements were contradicted by modern science.

The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.

The purpose is not that you might get more of the Holy Spirit, but that the Holy Spirit might get more of you.

The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.

The quintessential revolution is that of spirit. Without this, the forces which produce the inequalities of the old order will continue to operate.

The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.

The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit; the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see whether after such a destruction the world can go on.

The reality of spirit-matter is inevitably translated into and confirmed by a structure of the spirit.

The real spirit of Christmas lies in the life and mission of the Master.

There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.

There are 2 main things I've learned about following the Holy Spirit: It will never be easy. It will never be boring.

There are some of us who are just born with a more adventurous spirit than others. There are lots of people who would rather do the same thing, and she just was never that.

There are seductions that should be in the Smithsonian Institute, right next to The Spirit of St. Louis.

There are various tough problems yet to solve, and we must shift to live, betwixt spirit and matter, such a human life as we can.

There are two sides to this Baptism: The first is, you possess the Spirit; The second is that the Spirit possesses you.

There comes a time in your life where you're called to not only reinvent yourself but to rebuild your spirit. It's so relevant today.

There can be no revival apart from the Holy Ghost; He is the author of every Heaven-sent movement.

There can be no lasting peace, no security, nor can we as human beings begin to touch our full potential, as long as hunger overwhelms the human spirit around this planet.

Therefore for Spirits, I am so far from denying their existence that I could easily believe, that not only whole Countries, but particular persons, have their Tutelary and Guardian Angels.

There is a gift of the Holy Spirit that is given to both men and women in the New Testament. This is what makes the New Testament a New Testament rather than the Old Testament, in which women did not have such privileges.

There has never been a great film unless it was created in the spirit of the experimental filmmaker.

There is a geography of the human spirit, common to all peoples.

There is a ghost here. A lonely, heartbroken spirit. The ghost of everything that could've been and never was.

There is a god within us, and the heavens Have intercourse with earth; from realms above That spirit comes.

There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.

There is a kind of preaching that God blesses, specifically the proclamation that exalts the crucified Christ by the power of the Spirit. Conversely, there is a kind of preaching that God does not bless, a mere echoing of man’s empty wisdom that is devoid of Christ.

There is a missionary spirit—a spirit which urges us to live outside ourselves and to be concerned for the welfare of others.

There is an amazing something in the American psyche which speaks about courage, and it says, 'Yes I can,' ... Yes, we will overcome it all because we have the spirit to do so.

There is an analogy between conservation and education reform. The coalition around education reform is the biggest bipartisan thing going in this state right now. We need to recapture the big bipartisan spirit for conservation.

There is an extraordinary collaborative spirit when you are learning and growing.

There is an uncalculating, unaffected, unbound excitement in us when the Spirit is given freedom to express Himself through us.

There Is No God. This negation must be understood solely to affect a creative Deity. The hypothesis of a pervading Spirit co-eternal with the universe remains unshaken.

There is a spirit in us that makes our brass to blare and our cymbals crash-all, of course, supported by the practicalities of trained lung power, throat, heart, guts.