Best 3319 quotes in «spirit quotes» category

In the ancients, one sees the accomplished letter of entire poetry: in the moderns, one has the presentiment of the spirit in becoming.

In the flesh rather than the work of the Spirit, it is easy to say we are showing holiness and it only be egotistic pride and hardness.

In the hour of my distress, When temptations me oppress, And when I my sins confess, Sweet Spirit, comfort me.

In the heart of man, there is a constant conflict between the flesh and the spirit.

In the post-individualistic era, science and spirituality will become allies, and human beings will realize a vast potentiality now only dimly felt.

In the psychological realm of relationship between teacher and child, the teacher's part and its techniques are analogous to those of the valet; they are to serve, and to serve well: to serve the spirit.

In the spirit of tolerance, you should allow us to execute homosexuals.

In the spirit of Vivian Maier, who worked unaided by any publication or commercial shooting, I set up the Emerging Photographer Fund

Intolerance, discourtesy and harshness..... are taboo in all good society and are surely contrary to the spirit of democracy.

Intuition is the voice of the spirit within you.

In the spirit of Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot and Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage keeps circling its subject in widening loops and then darting at it when you least expect it . . . a wild book.

In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.

In the spirit of reaching across the aisle, we owe it to the Democrats to show their president the exact same kind of respect and loyalty that they have shown our recent Republican president.

In the temple of his spirit, each man is alone.

In truth, you are spirit. The body has been projected by the mind, which itself originates from Spirit.

In woman's womb word is made flesh but in the spirit of the maker all flesh that passes becomes the word that shall not pass away. This is the postcreation.

I practice yoga every day. The practice calms my spirit, and allows me to be present.

I realized my father's sister Joanne, who died at 19 had instilled her spirit in me.

In the quiet of this day may you know the greatness of your spirit and may your hopes fly on the wings of possibility.

Ireland. Great for the spirit - very bad for the body.

I realize I'm a free spirit. I like to be happy. I have to have more control of my happiness.

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

I purchased excellent and beautiful horses, visited all such neighbors as I found in congenial spirits, and was as happy as happy could be.

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

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?

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 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.

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?

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I think I'm like a free spirit.

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

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

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

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

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