Spirit famous quotes
05-22-2025
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One of the special marks of the Holy Ghost in the Apostolic Church was the spirit of boldness.
-- A. B. Simpson -
One of the first signs of a Spirit-filled life is enthusiasm!
-- A. B. Simpson -
Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.
-- Aaron Carter -
Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
-- Abraham Cowley -
We forgot we have Holy Body not less than our Holy Spirit.
-- Abraham Isaac Kook -
Matthew being a constant attendant on our Lord, his history is an account of what he saw and heard; and, being influenced by the Holy Spirit, his history is entitled to the utmost degree of credibility.
-- Adam Clarke -
Never forget that it is the spirit with which you endow your work that makes it useful or futile.
-- Adelaide Hasse -
You are all spirits. It is not that you "have" a spirit. To have a spirit implies that you are spirit and that you are also something else. Human beings are spirits. Being a human being is one of the ways of being a spirit.
-- Adi Da -
The unity of a nation's spirit and will are worth far more than the freedom of the spirit and will of an individual; and that the higher interests involved in the life of the whole must here set the limits and lay down the duties of the interests of the individual.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Art makes the spirit soar. And when the spirit is lifted, life follows.
-- Adriana Trigiani -
Friendship is that virtue by which spirits are bound by ties of love and sweetness and out of many are made one.
-- Aelred of Rievaulx -
The precept to worship God 'in spirit and in truth' recommand to worship him as an inward and moral force, without physical attributes and with no relation to fears and egoist wishes.
-- African Spir -
A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
-- Agnes Repplier -
We can express our worship to God in many ways. But if we love the Lord and are led by His Holy Spirit, our worship will always bring a delighted sense of admiring awe and a sincere humility on our part.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
Come to the Word with a spirit of longing with devotion and humble expectation. Be determined to know God.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
The only true disability is a crushed spirit
-- Aimee Mullins -
The ego tells you to fill space. Your spirit tells you to let space fill you.
-- Alan Cohen -
Yoga is when you feel pure consciousness and spirit.
-- Alan Finger -
When our consciousness is quiet, the waves of thought cease and we see clearly enough to relate back to our spirit. we connect with who we really are.
-- Alan Finger -
When consciousness has no thoughts in it, one can experience spirit and live in harmony with the universal forces.
-- Alan Finger -
Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
-- Alan Hirsch -
The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.
-- Alan K. Simpson -
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.
-- Albert Pike -
The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.
-- Alex Karras -
War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.
-- Alexander Berkman -
We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.
-- Alexander Herzen -
I'm a bit of a romantic, to a fault. It's led me to some great things and also some sad things. It's made me a better person, to keep a good spirit about dating.
-- Alexander Koch -
Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky.
-- Alexander Pope -
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?
-- Alfred Kazin -
The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
The great geniuses are those who have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it breadth of vision and experience.
-- Alfred Stieglitz -
Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
(a womanist) 3. Loves music. Loves dance. Loves the moon. Loves the Spirit. Loves love and food and roundness. Loves struggle. Loves the Folk. Loves herself. Regardless.
-- Alice Walker -
I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself.
-- Alison Bechdel -
Holy Spirit, take the Word of truth as we find it in the Scriptures and bring it home to our lives.
-- Alistair Begg -
The same Holy Spirit who implants faith within a life implants the boldness to verbalize that faith.
-- Alistair Begg -
Only when we are captured by an overwhelming sense of awe and reverence in the presence of God, will we begin to worship God in spirit and in truth.
-- Alistair Begg -
The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.
-- Allan Bloom -
In a word, what characterizes the spiritist revelation is that while divine in its origin and of the initiative of the Spirits, its elaboration is fruit of man’s work.
-- Allan Kardec -
The spirit of science is not to prejudge, but to give any honest query a fair shake.
-- Allen Wheelis -
I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive.
-- Amanda Lindhout -
To Dogmatism the Spirit of Inquiry is the same as the Spirit of Evil.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
I AM A PERSON WHO THINKS ABOUT THE NATURE OF THE SPIRIT WHEN I WRITE. I THINK ABOUT WHAT CAN'T BE KNOWN AND ONLY IMAGINED. I OFTEN SENSE A SPIRIT OR FORCE OR MEANING BEYOND MYSELF. I LEAVE IT OPEN AS TO WHAT THE SPIRIT IS, BUT I CONTINUE TO MAKE GUESSES.
-- Amy Tan -
Fermentation is the exhalation of a substance through the admixture of a ferment which, by virtue of its spirit, penetrates the mass and transforms it into its own nature.
-- Andreas Libavius -
Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.
-- Andrei Sakharov -
Being filled with the Spirit is simply this - having my whole nature yielded to His power. When the whole soul is yielded to the Holy Spirit, God Himself will fill it.
-- Andrew Murray -
Fear is an enemy that can be killed only at close range. The closest range of all is intimacy. The deeper the fear is embedded in one’s spirit, the more vulnerable it is.
-- Andrew Vachss -
Films made in the spirit of the past continued to be made.
-- Andrzej Wajda -
Peace is a fruit of the Spirit, not the byproduct of accumulated wealth.
-- Andy Stanley -
This Sacrament really contains You, O my God, You whom the Angels adore, in whose presence the Spirits and mighty Powers tremble. Oh! if we could only see You clearly as they do, with what reverence would we approach this Sacrament, with what humility would we receive You.
-- Angela of Foligno -
The portal of healing and creativity always takes us into the realm of the spirit.
-- Angeles Arrien -
Refugees have done more for my heart and my spirit than I can ever express in words.
-- Angelina Jolie -
The brilliance of contemplated beauty opens the spirit to the mystery of God.
-- Angelo Sodano -
God is a pure no-thing, concealed in now and here; the less you reach for him, the more he will appear.
-- Angelus Silesius -
God, whose love and joy are present everywhere, can't come to visit you unless you aren't there.
-- Angelus Silesius -
It isn't bread that feeds you; it is life and the spirit that feed you through bread.
-- Angelus Silesius -
For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature.
-- Ann Druyan -
Purify your life by keeping the commandments. This will help you qualify for the Spirit, who will assist you in your quest.
-- Ann M. Dibb -
If you were music I would listen to you ceaselessly       And my low spirits would brighten up.
-- Anna Akhmatova -
Just as the ancients danced to call upon the spirits in nature, we too can dance to find the spirits within ourselves that have been long buried and forgotten.
-- Anna Halprin -
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
-- Anna Quindlen -
You are not your bank account, our your ambitiousness. You're not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You're not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love.
-- Anne Lamott -
Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.
-- Anne Sullivan Macy -
Matter is, in its constituent elements, the same as spirit; existence is one, however manifold in its phenomena; life is one, however multiform in its evolution.
-- Annie Besant -
Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff.
-- Annie Dillard -
The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.
-- Annie Dillard -
Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
-- Ansel Adams -
When I looked into her eyes, I saw an invisible spirit of something that I already loved.
-- Anthony Kiedis -
The human spirit is not indestructible; but a courageous few discover that, when in hell, they are granted a glimpse of heaven.
-- Anthony Storr -
Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
-- Anton Chekhov -
In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
-- Anton Chekhov -
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.
-- Anton Seidl -
We must beware of yielding to the pressure of a spirit of cowardly conformity which proclaims itself everybody's friend in the hope that everybody will obligingly return the compliment.
-- Antonin Sertillanges -
Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.
-- Antonio Gramsci -
Revolutionaries see history as a creation of their own spirit, as being made up of a continuous series of violent tugs at the other forces of society - both active and passive, and they prepare the maximum of favourable conditions for the definitive tug (revolution).
-- Antonio Gramsci -
The more mechanical becomes the weapons with which we fight, the less mechanical must be the spirit which controls them.
-- Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell -
The more fearless we are in our personal lives, the more of that spirit we'll bring to changing our world.
-- Arianna Huffington -
You have to, in some ways, trust in the human spirit and in human ingenuity.
-- Ariel Garten -
Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources.
-- Aristotle -
The saxophone is the embodied spirit of beer.
-- Arnold Bennett -
If you will have patience in difficulties you know the Holy Spirit is within you, if you will also have the strength to be thankful in troubles than is when the Holy Spirit shines through you.
-- Arsenie Boca -
It is in the wild places, where the edge of the earth meets the corners of the sky, the human spirit is fed.
-- Art Wolfe -
His sanguine spirit turns every firefly into a star.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
That our knowledge only illuminates a small corner of the Universe, that it is incomplete, approximate, tentative and merely probable need not concert us. It is genuine nevertheless. Physical science stands as one of the great achievements of the human spirit.
-- Arthur David Ritchie -
Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?
-- Arthur Erickson -
Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them.
-- Arthur Helps -
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.
-- Arthur Middleton -
At the heart of every revival is the spirit of prayer.
-- Arthur Wallis -
The crowning blessing of a true visitation of the Holy Spirit is a mighty harvest for the kingdom of God.
-- Arthur Wallis -
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.
-- Arvo Part -
The indwelling presence and power of the Spirit are to be sought and received by faith in God's word of promise.
-- Asa Mahan -
When windows shatter through a bomb, we will repair it next week because we are Afghans. That's the spirit.
-- Ashraf Ghani -
We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest.
-- Atal Bihari Vajpayee
