300 Quotes on Spirit

• Embracing the storm within shows far greater fortitude than merely weathering it.

  Author: Maya Jordan

• In the realm of metaphysics, an instantaneous connection transcends mere words, becoming an unspoken current that yanks at the threads of our existence, weaving ineffability into the very pause of presence.

  Author: Lyra Guthrie

• Every whisper of wind caresses forgotten roots, revealing a conversation surging silently across the soil--a testament to life's nuanced awareness threaded In God's punctuation marks.

  Author: Elara Dimwood

• By embracing quantum consciousness, we dance effortlessly beyond imposed boundaries, unearthing possibilities that conventional reasoning can seldom glimpse.

  Author: Evelyn Nordstrom

• Success is not measured by the strength of our steps, but by the resilience of our spirit.

  Author: Olivia Parker

• The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth.

  Author: Stefan Zweig

• It was not simply out of a spirit of contradiction that I exposed a light source to magnetic forces. The idea came to me during an investigation of the effect discovered by Kerr on light reflected by magnetic mirrors.

  Author: Pieter Zeeman

• We are treated with such generosity of spirit.

  Author: Michael Zaslow

• Show your bluebell passion with every step you take. Infuse your corporeal mind, body and spirit with atomic sense of urgency, purpose and apple juice.

  Author: Isabel Yosito

• Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

  Author: William Yeats

• Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness.

  Author: Wilhelm Wundt

• Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they are even encouraged in many cases. Yet they are lethal to the spirit.

  Author: Judith Wright

• My early wounds were the English school system among other things. It wasn't merely the discipline, it was the ways in which boys got what was called the school spirit.

  Author: George Woodcock

• I will play my part by singing the spirit into every open heart.

  Author: Bobby Womack

• I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.

  Author: Tobias Wolff

• I congratulate you, my brave countrymen and fellow soldiers, on the spirit and success with which you have executed this important part of our enterprise.

  Author: James Wolfe

• Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages.

  Author: Isaac Wise

• It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control.

  Author: Oprah Winfrey

• You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

  Author: Woodrow Wilson

• Furthermore, the spirit of enterprise which had its first intellectual development in England has especially flourished here as well as throughout all of Canada, while the same spirit has become less virile in the land of its origin.

  Author: Charles Wilson

• Canada has great natural resources, and its people have the spirit and ability to develop them.

  Author: Charles Wilson

• Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from me to all the world. Amen.

  Author: Marianne Williamson

• Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld.

  Author: Henry Williamson

• No man ever did, nor ever shall, truly go forth to convert the nations, nor to prophesy in the present state of witnesses against Antichrist, but by the gracious inspiration and instigation of the Holy Spirit of God.

  Author: Roger Williams

• Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

  Author: Bern Williams

• An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.

  Author: Bern Williams

• At the end of the day, there is no doubt that the unique spirit embodied by this country has worked, not just to make the world safer, but to make it better.

  Author: Armstrong Williams

• Eighteen years ago, the Holy Spirit led me to establish a church in the heart of Times Square.

  Author: David Wilkerson

• I believe in walking in the Spirit.

  Author: David Wilkerson

• The Jews and the Arabs should settle their dispute in the true spirit of Christian charity.

  Author: Alexander Wiley

• The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• What is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place? It's not the spirit in you, since that is already enlightened, and has no need to seek. No, it is the ego in you that brings you to a teacher.

  Author: Ken Wilber

• There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.

  Author: Elie Wiesel

• There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.

  Author: Walt Whitman

• Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

  Author: Walt Whitman

• No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

  Author: Minor White

• As an actor, I've always wanted to do characters that would help me find my connection with others and connect all of us together. You always want the energy of the character, the spirit of the person, to enter you. I've been doing this for 26 years and some of the things I've done are always with me.

  Author: Forest Whitaker

• I do believe in ghosts. Freaky things will happen, and I'm like, 'The wind didn't do that! Some spirit did'.

  Author: Devon Werkheiser

• But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a fence around it and thinking that this will help it survive.

  Author: Wim Wenders

• Ibrahim tells his story without a grain of complaint, and this was true for all of the band members. This is very much part of the Cuban spirit and soul.

  Author: Wim Wenders

• The Cuban people have an amazingly strong and unbroken spirit.

  Author: Wim Wenders

• Any movie that has that spirit and says things can be changed is worth making.

  Author: Wim Wenders

• The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.

  Author: Ida Wells

• The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.

  Author: Ida Wells

• Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.

  Author: Thomas Watson

• Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.

  Author: James Watson

• It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

  Author: Earl Warren

• As we move into the 21st century, there's what the Bible calls a 'quickening of the spirit.'

  Author: Neale Walsch

• It's a very small and select slice of all the people who have ever been born. I believe we've come back during this time, those of us who are here now, specifically to experience it. And to cause a 'quickening of the spirit.'

  Author: Neale Walsch

• Films made in the spirit of the past continued to be made.

  Author: Andrzej Wajda

• It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

  Author: Voltaire

• He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

  Author: Voltaire

• Catholic schools prepare every student to meet the challenges of their future by developing their mind, yes, but also their body and their soul and spirit.

  Author: David Vitter

• Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

  Author: Leonardo Vinci

• It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.

  Author: Gore Vidal

• The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things.

  Author: Giambattista Vico

• We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on which it rested hallowed; and until, by our own lives, and by converse with the thoughts they have bequeathed us, we feel that union and relationship of the spirit which we seek.

  Author: Jones Very

• 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.

  Author: Conrad Veidt

• Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.

  Author: Thorstein Veblen

• The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

  Author: Marquis Vauvenargues

• That was my way, and I also use the music after five years, I started hearing opera, opera, it was very good instrument to keep the spirit very strong because you feel like you are yourself singing opera, and I used to hear a lot of opera, they send me tapes.

  Author: Mordechai Vanunu

• We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest.

  Author: Atal Vajpayee

• What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

  Author: John Updike

• To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.

  Author: Miguel Unamuno

• Ibsen was Norwegian by birth, but universal in spirit.

  Author: Liv Ullmann

• Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

  Author: Samuel Ullman

• Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.

  Author: Morihei Ueshiba

• Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment.

  Author: Morihei Ueshiba

• Your spirit is the true shield.

  Author: Morihei Ueshiba

• The purpose of training is to tighten up the slack, toughen the body, and polish the spirit.

  Author: Morihei Ueshiba

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

  Author: Liv Tyler

• Substance must emanate from spirit and is nothing else than the record of the spirit's conception of itself finding expression in space and time.

  Author: Paul Twitchell

• Our spiritual attitude is determined by our conception of our relation to infinite spirit.

  Author: Paul Twitchell

• People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.

  Author: Dale Turner

• Yoga has brought me closer to myself. It's helped me realize the interconnectedness of the mind, body and spirit, in the Buddhist sense of the word.

  Author: Christy Turlington

• When you are balanced and when you listen and attend to the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your natural beauty comes out.

  Author: Christy Turlington

• Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

  Author: Harry Truman

• Chefs, as a whole, say yes to any project, fundraiser, or tasting because they have such a generous spirit.

  Author: Charlie Trotter

• All TV can do is capture the spirit of a book because the medium is so utterly different. But I'm very grateful for the readers that Masterpiece Theatre has undoubtedly brought me.

  Author: Joanna Trollope

• I mean the flesh, never fade! The flesh never leave the creation, see, because with that divine spirit the flesh cannot fade. If the spirit is weak then the flesh fade, seen?

  Author: Peter Tosh

• And the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat.

  Author: Ernst Toller

• When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.

  Author: Alexis Tocqueville

• But the dream is never forgotten, only put aside and never out of reach: Where once the dream connected boys with the world of men, now it reconnects men with the spirit of boys.

  Author: John Thorn

• Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

  Author: Henry Thoreau

• All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.

  Author: Henry Thoreau

• It hurts the spirit, somehow, to read the word environments, when the plural means that there are so many alternatives there to be sorted through, as in a market, and voted on.

  Author: Lewis Thomas

• Usefulness! It is not a fascinating word, and the quality is not one of which the aspiring spirit can dream o' nights, yet on the stage it is the first thing to aim at.

  Author: Ellen Terry

• Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery.

  Author: Sara Teasdale

• Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.

  Author: Jeremy Taylor

• Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit.

  Author: Jeremy Taylor

• After working for 14 years on Wall Street and growing up in a family with strong roots in small business, I know how important the entrepreneurial spirit is to attaining the American dream.

  Author: Ellen Tauscher

• Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

  Author: Johannes Tauler

• The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive.

  Author: Johannes Tauler

• Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.

  Author: Wislawa Szymborska

• Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.

  Author: Algernon Swinburne

• Man was so created by the Lord as to be able while living in the body to speak with spirits and angels, as in fact was done in the most ancient times; for, being a spirit clothed with a body, he is one with them.

  Author: Emanuel Swedenborg

• It is necessary to be concerned about the importance of educating a really beautiful human spirit.

  Author: Shinichi Suzuki

• It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the building.

  Author: Louis Sullivan

• Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to the future and to the past.

  Author: Lytton Strachey

• Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.

  Author: Joseph Story

• But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series of injustice, which has reigned in all countries for almost four thousand years.

  Author: Ezra Stiles

• Only a fool permits the letter of the law to override the spirit in the heart. Do not let a piece of paper stand in the way of true love and headlines.

  Author: Rod Stewart

• It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.

  Author: Robert Stevenson

• It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

  Author: Robert Stevenson

• I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

  Author: Robert Stevenson

• You can kill the body but not the spirit.

  Author: Robert Stevenson

• We cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our arsenals than we are in the spirit which rules inside the country. Foreign policy, like a river, cannot rise above its source.

  Author: Adlai Stevenson

• People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.

  Author: Laurence Sterne

• I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

  Author: John Steinbeck

• In order to be an image of God, the spirit must turn to what is eternal, hold it in spirit, keep it in memory, and by loving it, embrace it in the will.

  Author: Edith Stein

• Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul 'prays in us with unspeakable groanings'.

  Author: Edith Stein

• The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

  Author: Ben Stein

• Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago.

  Author: Lincoln Steffens

• I'm convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon the Lord will be able to run on his feet and walk in his spirit. Although he may be hurried by his vocation, that's not the issue. The issue is how fast his spirit is going. To slow it down takes a period of time.

  Author: Charles Stanley

• The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.

  Author: Charles Spurgeon

• I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

  Author: Charles Spurgeon

• A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world.

  Author: Charles Spurgeon

• Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.

  Author: Herbert Spencer

• When I am in form, my style is a little bit stubborn, almost brutal. Sometimes I feel a great spirit of fight which drives me on.

  Author: Boris Spassky

• What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

  Author: Robert Southey

• The Spirit of the Lord is with them that fear him.

  Author: Joanna Southcott

• Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.

  Author: Bishop South

• One of my beliefs is that there are certain institutions within a community which stand for the spirit and heart of that community, there's the church, the local football team, the local pub and the theatre.

  Author: David Soul

• There is no such thing as immaterial matter. All spirit is matter, but is more fine or pure, and can only be discerned by purer eyes. We cannot see it, but when our bodies are purified, we shall see that it is all matter.

  Author: Joseph Smith, Jr.

• The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue.

  Author: George Smith

• I believe people who are looking for a fresh idea and spirit have received Danielson. The conservative Christian press have been quite mean to us, but the mainstream "secular" press has been very, very nice.

  Author: Daniel Smith

• I get excited about what the Holy Spirit is doing now through all the people he is refining and raising up all over this planet. I love connections and relationship and networking but it must be led by the Spirit.

  Author: Daniel Smith

• It's kind of bittersweet. The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart.

  Author: Yakov Smirnoff

• The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.

  Author: Samuel Smiles

• For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.

  Author: Wallis Simpson

• The tender heart, the broken and contrite spirit, are to me far above all the joys that I could ever hope for in this vale of tears.

  Author: Charles Simeon

• You often feel that your prayers scarcely reach the ceiling; but, oh, get into this humble spirit by considering how good the Lord is, and how evil you all are, and then prayer will mount on wings of faith to heaven.

  Author: Charles Simeon

• I kind of have a dilettantish spirit about me.

  Author: Ron Silver

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

  Author: Sargent Shriver

• Words alone cannot fully convey the realities of the soul or the greatness of the human spirit.

  Author: William Shirley

• Writing in English was a major challenge. I didn't want other songwriters to write for me. I wanted to preserve the spirit of my songs in Spanish. I am the same Shakira in English as I am in Spanish.

  Author: Shakira

• O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.

  Author: William Shakespeare

• And because his Spirit was wholly God, he is called God, and he is called man on account of his flesh.

  Author: Michael Servetus

• Do not be surprised if I adore as God what you called humanity, since you talked of humanity as if it was empty of spirit and you think in the flesh according to the flesh.

  Author: Michael Servetus

• No one with a body full of aliments can have a luminous soul and other intellectual faculties. It is necessary to care for the body if we wish the spirit to function normally.

  Author: Michael Servetus

• That's the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.

  Author: Jerry Seinfeld

• The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors.

  Author: Anton Seidl

• I think the Swedish Academy wished to manifest its solidarity with the living spirit of Greece today.

  Author: Giorgos Seferis

• Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.

  Author: Charles Secondat

• We are showing that Englishmen can still die with a bold spirit, fighting it out to the end.

  Author: Robert Scott

• Create an atmosphere for the Spirit. The Spirit must be present.

  Author: Richard Scott

• Some missionaries are giants in the Spirit and pygmies in skills in the Spirit. Work hard to develop a balance. Your leaders, and you, should teach the skills to each other.

  Author: Richard Scott

• The Spirit communicating to your spirit is the most effective and fundamental of communications. Write it down. As you write down impressions of the Spirit, more are given.

  Author: Richard Scott

• We can continue our progress as a Nation toward the promise that all people are created equal and that our Nation will treat every person in that spirit.

  Author: Bobby Scott

• The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

  Author: Albert Schweitzer

• Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.

  Author: Albert Schweitzer

• Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.

  Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger

• I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

  Author: Charles Schwab

• Every music - except dance music, which is for dancing, I suppose - is for the spirit of the human being, and not for the body.

  Author: Klaus Schulze

• Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

  Author: Karl Schlegel

• Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.

  Author: Karl Schlegel

• Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.

  Author: Karl Schlegel

• The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper.

  Author: Philip Schaff

• 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.

  Author: Adam Savage

• In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics.

  Author: Ferdinand Saussure

• Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.

  Author: May Sarton

• The modern mind tends to be more and more critical and analytical in spirit, hence it must devise for itself an engine of expression which is logically defensible at every point and which tends to correspond to the rigorous spirit of modern science.

  Author: Edward Sapir

• So far as the advocates of a constructed international language are concerned, it is rather to be wondered at how much in common their proposals actually have, both in vocabulary and in general spirit of procedure.

  Author: Edward Sapir

• The spirit of logical analysis should in practice blend with the practical pressure for the adoption of some form of international language, but it should not allow itself to be stampeded by it.

  Author: Edward Sapir

• Both French and Latin are involved with nationalistic and religious implications which could not be entirely shaken off, and so, while they seemed for a long time to have solved the international language problem up to a certain point, they did not really do so in spirit.

  Author: Edward Sapir

• A common allegiance to form of expression that is identified with no single national unit is likely to prove one of the most potent symbols of the freedom of the human spirit that the world has yet known.

  Author: Edward Sapir

• The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.

  Author: George Santayana

• They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken.

  Author: Bobby Sands

• There is more openness in LA to possibilities than on the East Coast of America. There is a pioneering spirit there that stems from the reason people went out there in the first place-to find something new.

  Author: Esa-Pekka Salonen

• Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.

  Author: Saint Sales

• Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.

  Author: Andrei Sakharov

• 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.

  Author: Katey Sagal

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

  Author: Saadi

• The holy spirit means the invisible power of Jehovah, holy because he is holy. This power of Jehovah operated upon the minds of honest men who loved and who were devoted to righteousness, directing them in the writing of the Bible.

  Author: Joseph Rutherford

• Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost always impossible to remain faithful to the text. You have to make changes.

  Author: Richard Russo

• After the spiritual powers, there is no thing in the world more unconquerable than the spirit of nationality. The spirit of nationality in Ireland will persist even though the mightiest of material powers be its neighbor.

  Author: George Russell

• The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.

  Author: Bertrand Russell

• 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.

  Author: John Ruskin

• Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.

  Author: John Ruskin

• The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.

  Author: Muriel Rukeyser

• I ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened.

  Author: Wilma Rudolph

• Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

  Author: Wilma Rudolph

• Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.

  Author: Helena Rubinstein

• And the spirit of Superman is great to have around.

  Author: Brandon Routh

• Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.

  Author: Mark Rothko

• I've been in the studio experimenting on making a CD of my own. I'm trying out different producers, styles, sounds. With music, as opposed to acting, you are not playing a character. You are showing people who you are. I really want to have my spirit in it.

  Author: Emily Rossum

• Most of all, we should remember all of us are capable of individually helping advance the spirit of equality for all.

  Author: Mike Rogers

• A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait.

  Author: Theodore Roethke

• Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

  Author: Auguste Rodin

• I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn't about the production of the human spirit, we are in big trouble.

  Author: Anita Roddick

• The only thing you're taking out of here is your spirit and your soul, so we need to be conscious to try and develop that part of ourselves, because we're all spiritual creatures.

  Author: Smokey Robinson

• I'm a free spirit; more people should become free spirits.

  Author: Mark Roberts

• Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.

  Author: Joan Rivers

• Also there is a similitude of a Trinity shining in the body, soul and spirit.

  Author: George Ripley

• Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!

  Author: Pat Riley

• There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

  Author: Pat Riley

• Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind.

  Author: Bridget Riley

• Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.

  Author: Branch Rickey

• I hope you will respond to the crisis of confidence that Watergate has created by opening up your administration and reaching out to people in a more magnanimous spirit.

  Author: Elliot Richardson

• For me, acting was a way of releasing all of this stuff that I had inside - and a way for me to tell the stories of the people I knew, so that their spirit could live through me.

  Author: Ving Rhames

• They don't allow you to go any further unless you can do this bomb suit training, because it puts such a mental strain on your spirit. It dumbs you down about 25 to 30 IQ points. You start to hallucinate in the heat inside the suit after 20-30 minutes. So you try not to stay in it too dang long. So the preparation for that - it's either you have it, or you do not.

  Author: Jeremy Renner

• This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.

  Author: Walter Reisch

• There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

  Author: Ronald Reagan

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

  Author: William Reade

• A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.

  Author: William Reade

• The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves.

  Author: Herbert Read

• The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with something quite geometric or the spirit that I was interested in, indulging in, was gone.

  Author: Robert Rauschenberg

• The Minnesota spirit of compassion and help for people in need has moved countless Minnesotans to step forward to provide relief for the survivors of Hurricane Katrina.

  Author: Jim Ramstad

• 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.

  Author: Harold Ramis

• 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.

  Author: Robert Rainy

• 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.

  Author: Trevor Rabin

• I've been immersed in it too long. My spirit is wobbly and my mind is confused. The hurt has become too great.

  Author: Ernie Pyle

• I've really been sick with this cold, but I think I might have kept the columns going anyhow except I was just so low in spirit, I didn't have the will to struggle against them when my deadline was so close and I felt so lousy.

  Author: Ernie Pyle

• I felt it was part of the spirit of the whole program to do more than simply make an object.

  Author: Martin Puryear

• If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit Awards.

  Author: Annie Proulx

• The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.

  Author: V. Pritchett

• As I say, the Animals had a particular concept of themselves as a band. There was an anarchic spirit in it, which was being flattened by commercial designs, attitudes, and needs.

  Author: Alan Price

• God the Father and God the Son cannot be everywhere present; indeed they cannot be even in two places at the same instant: but God the Holy Spirit is omnipresent - it extends through all space, with all other matter.

  Author: Orson Pratt

• God is a spirit. A spirit is as much matter as oxygen or hydrogen.

  Author: Orson Pratt

• Each atom of the Holy Spirit is intelligent, and like all other matter has solidity, form, and size, and occupies space.

  Author: Orson Pratt

• The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being.

  Author: Orson Pratt

• Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

  Author: Plato

• But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

  Author: Albert Pike

• A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.

  Author: Francis Picabia

• The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

  Author: Francis Picabia

• They who grasp the world, The Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, Must pay with deepest misery of spirit, Atoning unto God for a brief brightness.

  Author: Stephen Phillips

• The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.

  Author: James Percival

• True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

  Author: William Penn

• Every time I work with a European director, I find they hire the person that captures the spirit of the role. Americans tend to hire the best face. The person that looks more like the role, whether they can perform the role or not is a bonus.

  Author: Elizabeth Pena

• Golf is the most useless outdoor game ever devised to waste the time and try the spirit of man.

  Author: Westbrook Pegler

• Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.

  Author: M. Peck

• Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

  Author: George Patton

• Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light.

  Author: Boris Pasternak

• 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.

  Author: Blaise Pascal

• 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.

  Author: Arvo Part

• He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the one being for him in all the world: at this altar he would light a lamp of devotion, and keep it burning forever.

  Author: Gilbert Parker

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

  Author: Chuck Palahniuk

• All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit.

  Author: John Owen

• To see this place would truly be worth a trip to India in itself, and from the spirit of the religion that lived here one can learn more in an hour of viewing than from all the books ever written.

  Author: Rudolf Otto

• I just refer to myself as being Spirit, Mind and Body like everybody else and working toward the mastery of my natural divinity and the healing of my emotional mind.

  Author: Leonard Orr

• We need worship for our spirit, fellowship for our soul and committed subservience for our body.

  Author: Larry Norman

• Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were really there and not a spirit just floating around.

  Author: Larry Norman

• How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

  Author: Florence Nightingale

• War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

  Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

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

  Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

• I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his "divine service."

  Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

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

  Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

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

  Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

• When rough times have fallen upon our state in the past, Texans have always responded with generosity and an eagerness to help. The compassionate response to the fires has proven that this community spirit is alive and well.

  Author: Randy Neugebauer

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

  Author: Howard Nemerov

• The scene was not a happy one yet we looked upon it in the cold stoical spirit of a soldier; a slight chilling pang and then a return soul and body to the enemy before us.

  Author: Knute Nelson

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

  Author: Jawaharlal Nehru

• Well, I think I've made 44 films and only like four times I've played real characters I'm just drawn to people who have a pioneer spirit, this extraordinary energy and commitment to their cause.

  Author: Liam Neeson

• Well, from an acting point of view, I bear no relation, I don't look like Alfred Kinsey at all, but I thought somewhere in my artist's soul, my actor's soul, I could capture something of the spirit of the man.

  Author: Liam Neeson

• It's extraordinary to look into a baby's face and see a piece of your flesh and your spirit. It makes you realize you are a part of the human race.

  Author: Liam Neeson

• We tried to set up a company that patterned ourselves after Southwest in all the fun, the spirit, the great people, the smile, the efficiency side of it, but we've added some extras that people aren't used to finding on Southwest.

  Author: David Neeleman

• Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.

  Author: Riccardo Muti

• Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.

  Author: Miyamoto Musashi

• I Knew why I felt at home. The spirit of freedom was hovering over that play yard as it did all over France at that time. A country was free again.

  Author: Audie Murphy

• Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

  Author: John Muir

• We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

  Author: Akio Morita

• The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

  Author: Charles Montesquieu

• I am an animator. I feel like I'm the manager of a animation cinema factory. I am not an executive. I'm rather like a foreman, like the boss of a team of craftsmen. That is the spirit of how I work.

  Author: Hayao Miyazaki

• Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day.

  Author: Donald Mitchell

• The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

  Author: Ludwig Mises

• And if, happy in the lot of no created thing, he withdraws into the center of his own unity, his spirit, made one with God, in the solitary darkness of God, who is set above all things, shall surpass them all.

  Author: Giovanni Mirandola

• A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.

  Author: John Milton

• The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.

  Author: Kate Millett

• A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.

  Author: Arthur Miller

• You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return.

  Author: Arthur Miller

• We began as restless and radical. Remember the spirit of 1997, but by the end of our time in office we had lost our way.

  Author: Ed Miliband

• The intrusions of the white race and the non- compliance with treaty obligations have been followed by atrocities that could alone satisfy a savage and revengeful spirit.

  Author: Nelson Miles

• I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.

  Author: Bette Midler

• Times have changed since George Herbert... but the principle and spirit in which he ministered as a priest remains an inspiration and model for all priests.

  Author: Arthur Middleton

• What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?

  Author: Michelangelo

• Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.

  Author: Alice Meynell

• It's more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.

  Author: Pat Metheny

• I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.

  Author: Yehudi Menuhin

• The most all penetrating spirit before which will open the possibility of tilting not tables, but planets, is the spirit of free human inquiry. Believe only in that.

  Author: Dmitri Mendeleev

• What is my task? First of all, my task is to be pleasing to Christ. To be empty of self and be filled with Himself. To be filled with the Holy Spirit; to be led by the Holy Spirit.

  Author: Aimee McPherson

• But it has, in addition, an even more precious quality - a consciousness of the human intelligence, the human spirit and that man is a social creature.

  Author: Norman McLaren

• So people will come along and do new things and sometimes return to the spirit of an earlier age.

  Author: Norman McLaren

• I don't know whether it ever comes back to the same thing; it does return to the spirit of a previous period in some way, but it's different, it's new.

  Author: Norman McLaren

• It's important, that spirit of youth, and when you're 16 that can get you kickstarted.

  Author: Ewan McGregor

• It was a place that is trying to destroy the individual by every means possible; trying to break his spirit, so that he accepts that he is No. 6 and will live there happily as No. 6 for ever after. And this is the one rebel that they can't break.

  Author: Patrick McGoohan

• To me, Arnold was a pioneer in the spirit of Thomas Edison or Benjamin Franklin, while Tiger is a pioneer in the spirit of Bill Gates.

  Author: Mark McCormack

• I had a born-again experience at the age of 33. As a result of that I found a church where I felt I was being fed properly. I don't say that as a reflection on Catholicism. But once I was born again, I got an evangelical spirit.

  Author: Bill McCartney

• This is the spirit of the Order, indeed the true spirit of Mercy flowing on us.

  Author: Catherine McAuley

• A hero is somebody who is selfless, who is generous in spirit, who just tries to give back as much as possible and help people. A hero to me is someone who saves people and who really deeply cares.

  Author: Debi Mazar

• The fact that he didn't get credit for a while is more the story of social injustice. But his own spirit wasn't driven by that, and wasn't dependent upon that. He just wished he had the cash to go to medical school.

  Author: Mary Masterson

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

  Author: Karl Marx

• But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.

  Author: Jose Marti

• We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.

  Author: Jose Marti

• Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.

  Author: Ralph Marston

• There are forces all around you who wish to exploit division, rob you of your freedom, and tell you what to think. But young folks can rekindle the weary spirit of a slumbering nation.

  Author: Wynton Marsalis

• What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America.

  Author: Branford Marsalis

• Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.

  Author: Jacques Maritain

• The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.

  Author: Gabriel Marcel

• I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress.

  Author: Thomas Mann

• Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit.

  Author: David Mamet

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