Best 3319 quotes in «spirit quotes» category

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 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 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.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 impossible to overestimate the importance of being filled with the 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 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 not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

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

It isn't bread that feeds you; it is life and the spirit that feed you through bread.

It is of the highest importance from the standpoint of experience that we know the Holy Spirit as a person.

It is often the case with finer natures, that when the fire of the spirit dies out with increasing age, the power of the intellect is unaltered or increased.

It is only possible to speak in the language and in the spirit of one's time.

It is possible for the human spirit to win after all.

It is part of the unceasing human endeavor to prove that the spirit of man can transcend the flaws of his own nature.

It is precisely as though I were possessed by some other spirit when I enter on a new task of acting, as though something within me presses a switch and my own consciousness merges into some other, greater, more vital being.

It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.

It is required of every man," the ghost returned, "that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and, if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.

It is right that we should be successful, for otherwise Spirit is not expressed.