Spirit Quotes

Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.

Our body is dependant on Heaven and Heaven on the Spirit.

The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.

The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists.

The presence of the Holy Spirit is the keystone of all our hopes.

By one Spirit we are all baptised into one body.

Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.

Now, I think that in acknowledging that every individual Member of Parliament and indeed every individual member of the Labour Party, has rights to express their view in a spirit of tolerance.

I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers.

Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning.

Remember, that of all the elements that comprise a human being, the most important, the most essential, the one that will sustain, transcend, overcome and vanquish obstacles is - Spirit!

Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit.

I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It's in the spirit of it.

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

I believe the divine is part of the world, not in a pantheistic way but by way of the movement of the Spirit.

Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian avant-garde.

Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.

The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.

It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

I am a channel for the Christ spirit. The title was given to me very recently by the Godhead.

Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.

LET us honour the King by cherishing respectful Sentiments concerning him; speaking of him with Affection, with Esteem and Reverence; and by promoting a like Spirit and Conduct in others.

Love is the force that ignites the spirit and binds teams together.

I have seen humility in many of the finest leaders I have met the world over. And indeed, it is embodied in the warm, engaging and quintessentially successful spirit of Sir Richard Branson.

I had always been a free spirit and always gotten what I wanted.

Dancing is bigger than the physical body. Think bigger than that. When you extend your arm, it doesn't stop at the end of your fingers, because you're dancing bigger than that. You're dancing spirit.

All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.

One has to nurture a new generation, to raise children in the spirit of Islam.

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

I have an underdog spirit in me, and now it feels weird to kind of get my own way more often than not.

The human body has limitations. The human spirit is boundless.

Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.

Movies are art and the spirit of the movie depends on the creators.

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.

To me, there is spirit in a reed. It's a living thing, a weed, really, and it does contain spirit of a sort. It's really an ancient vibration.

We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.

No writer of a portion of the Bible was perfect. It was the direct and miraculous operation of the Holy Spirit that what they wrote is without mistake.

All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.

The spirit can assert itself only through the medium of clear form.

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

The spirit world doesn't admit to communicating with me, so it's fairly even.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

As long as the house of The Holy Spirit remains a haven for criminals the reputation of the church will remain in ruins.

When I sing, it's the most solitary state: just me, and the microphone, and the holy spirit. It's not about notes or scales, it's all about emotion.

I'm not much like my mother; that role falls to my brothers, who have more of her blithe and freewheeling spirit.

If you think about the concept of reincarnation, it's essentially uploading yourself and your spirit into a new form, a new hard drive as it were.

Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.

If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.

I don't care what anybody says. Stick to the spirit of the play and you're doing it right. It's about embracing the spirit of the text instead of noodling some idea about things.

I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener.

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

It's a great privilege and an honour to have the experiences and opportunities that I do to meet extraordinary Australians right across our country who share a great generosity of spirit.

I love being in a band. I love that collaborative spirit, although some would suggest that I don't get involved in the collaborative spirit, but it's not true.

Meanwhile the Church more and more provided for the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, by practically chaining His influence to the hierarchy and the sacraments.

I believe things happen that can't be explained, but so many people seem intent on explaining them. Everyone has an answer for them. Either aliens or things from the spirit world.

The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.

And then I think now we are - you know his - like I've always said. His spirit is so large that we feel his presence around the show, and we always will. He will always have a voice.