Best 3319 quotes in «spirit quotes» category

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.

There is a twofold meaning in every creature, a literal and a mystical, and the one is but the ground of the other.

There is a spirit in all music, the spirit has the ability to conjure up thoughts even pictures of something that happened or you wished would happen or you anticipate happening. Music has the ability to create ideas in you and me. It has the ability to encourage us to be creative.

There is a universal intelligence that we call God or Soul or Spirit or Consciousness, and it is everywhere and in all things.

There is a very real danger of our putting our faith in our sermon rather than in the Spirit. Our faith should not be in the sermon, it should be in the Holy Spirit Himself.

There is in the human race some dark spirit of recalcitrance, always pulling us in the direction contrary to that in which we are reasonably expected to go.

There is in the clergy of all Christian denominations a time-serving, cringing, subservient morality, as wide from the spirit of the gospel as it is from the intrepid assertion and vindication of truth.

There is no burden of the spirit but is lighter by kneeling under it.

There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone's spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that's beautiful to me.

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 no form of conviction more intimate and irresistible than that which arises from the inward teaching of the Spirit.

There is no humiliation worse than the consciousness of a wasted life. It stains the spirit, forestalls hope, and destroys any motive for action or change.

There is no love of God without patience, and no patience without lowliness and sweetness of spirit.

There is no reason to believe that the Holy Spirit ever leaves awakened sinners, only as they leave the truth of God for some error or sin.

There is no reason to regret that I cannot finish the church. I will grow old but others will come after me. What must always be conserved is the spirit of the work, but its life has to depend on the generations it is handed down to and with whom it lives and is incarnated

[T]here is not a syllable in the plan under consideration which directly empowers the national courts to construe the laws according to the spirit of the Constitution.

There is nothing like a newborn baby to renew your spirit - and to buttress your resolve to make the world a better place.

There is nothing like wine for conjuring up feelings of contentment and goodwill. It is less of a drink than an experience, an evocation, a spirit. It produces sensations that defy description.

There is nothing that can have a more powerful effect on your mental health than the spirit of thankfulness.

There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.

There is no yajna (sacrifice) greater than spinning calculated to bring peace to the troubled spirit, to soothe the distracted student's mind, to spiritualize his life.

There is only one purpose of pentecost; that is to effectively evangelize lost souls.

There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity, to which, we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can he reasonably expect, the confidence of others who too apparently distrusts himself.

There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.

There is something electrifying about individuals with adventuresome spirits. They see life through a different lens. They almost emit electricity because nothing about them is dull or uninteresting or unplugged.

There is soul music, soul food, and soul love.

There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I've played up to that a bit in interviews.

The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps.

The 'religious spirit,' it's demonic, and it attempts to substitute a demonic power or a fleshly power for the power of the Holy Spirit. And the 'religious spirit' is more concerned with what we look like than what we really are.

There is within each of us the possibility of magnificence. Every moment is an opportunity to make it manifest. Let the spirit awaken you to a miraculous life.

There's a part of you - the born-again part, your spirit - that's dead to sin. That's why it bothers you now when you sin. The 'wilderness' part of you - your soul - is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.

There's a large strain of irony in our human affairs... Interwoven with our affairs is this wonderful spirit of irony which prevents us from ever being utterly and irretrievably serious, from being unaware of the mysterious nature of our existence.

The 'renewed' mind is the canvas on which the Spirit of God can paint.

There's a fine line between being a sicko and an adventurous spirit.

There's a ghost in this house! An unquiet spirit!" Unquiet spirit?" Shane said under his breath. "Is that politically correct for pissed off? You know, like Undead American or something?

There's a thing that has happened in the U.S. where the spirit has been beaten so badly and so you feel no unity in the voice of the country.

There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.

There's nothing better than meeting somebody with a great soul, and a great spirit and a good heart.

There's nothing a man can't do if the spirit's there.

There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple. If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things will strive to dwell with't

There's so much spirit of integration and democracy in jazz.

There's roads, and there's roads, And they call. Can't you hear it? Roads of the earth And roads of the spirit The best roads of all Are the ones that aren't certain. One of those is where you'll find me 'Til they drop the big curtain.

There's the physical life and the voice, but at some point you abandon all of that, you know what the spirit of the person is and you let it descend and just get on with it.

The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of the society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment.

The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas.

The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.

The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal

The revolution is made through human beings, but individuals must forge their revolutionary spirit day by day

There the door is always open into the “holy” — growth, birth, death.

There was good reason for the silence of the Holy Spirit as to how,when, in what form Christ ordained the apostles, the reason being to show the indifferency of all forms of words.