Spirit Quotations | Page 4

We are made in the image of God, and we need to put Spirit back into the equation when we want to improve our physical and our mental health.

Our late Leader, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, with his universal sympathy for all oppressed and his profound understanding of Jesus' revolutionary spirit of love and sacrifice, carried on his revolutionary work for forty years and brought about at last the liberation of the Chinese people.

I value all things as nothing in comparison with having the spirit of God to guide me.

God gave you not a spirit of faithlessness, not a spirit of despair.

I try to put the same spirit into that that I put into any other music endeavor I'm involved in.

I don't believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

I know my spirit is not mean, and I have a very good spirit and a funny spirit.

With my natural communication abilities, I could probably gather a crowd even without the Spirit.

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

Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.

In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.

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.

I know by experience that Jesus Christ is a very powerful spirit - I know by experience that he is probably the most powerful spirit in the universe. I know by experience he is not a mere human being. He is something beyond that.

A person can be big, because of spirit. A person can be big because of their position in the family, the hierarchy in the family. That role has been played by women who are quite thin.

Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.

My characters who come back from death are worse for wear. In some ways, they're not even the same characters anymore. The body may be moving, but some aspect of the spirit is changed or transformed, and they've lost something.

Feeling at home with ourselves and being able to create a spirit of place that nourishes us physically, emotionally and spiritually is a goal worthy of our highest priority.

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

All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.

We are all different. There is no such thing as a standard or run-of-the-mill human being, but we share the same human spirit.

I think the word 'social entrepreneur' is a really good description of what I am. What that means me to is that you have the entrepreneurial gift and spirit to create something out of nothing.

My music has to do with beauty, and it's intended to, if not lift the spirits, then be a kind of a balm to the spirits.

Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.

The only rich person is a person who is rich in spirit. I have no money deposit. I have only beauty deposit.

The Haight is just a place; the '60s was a spirit.

Every day, we've got to do something physical. It's mind, body and spirit.

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

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

Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.

In the scriptures, 'peace' means either freedom from strife, contention, conflict, or war, or an inner calm and comfort born of the Spirit that is a gift of God to all of his children, an assurance and serenity within a person's heart.

I want all my friends, family and fans to know that I am in good spirits and I will be fine.

Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don't think that can be said of the Africa I traveled in.

You can't instruct an audience to laugh, but what you can do is read well and understand the spirit and subtleties, if there are any, in the dialogue.

I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.

I'm aware that people I have loved and have died and are in the spirit world looking after me.

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

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

Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?

There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.

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

Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don't give your heart to anything, but the love of those whose hearts are glad.

The 'Bird's Nest' National Stadium, which I helped to conceive, is designed to embody the Olympic spirit of 'fair competition.' It tells people that freedom is possible but needs fairness, courage and strength.

Meeting Stevie Wonder was a massive, lifetime achievement for me. He's one of the sweetest people. I sense a kindred spirit in him, and I hope he'd say the same. Actually, he did.

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

A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

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

The idea of appealing to people of a like mind and like spirit always appealed to me.

A 'real pastor' is not preaching of their own; they are speaking what God put in their heart by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is using them at that very moment to speak to the congregations situations -past, present, and future.

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

As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.

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

Kind words not only lift our spirits in the moment they are given, but they can linger with us over the years.

Peace is a gift that is embodied through the Holy Spirit through the acceptance of Christ.

Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit.

I'd just like to carry on in Dad's footsteps. I think that Dad's spirit and passion lives in every single one of us.

There is such a thing as 'thanks-feeling' - feeling thankful. This ought to be the general, universal spirit of the Christian.

You must have faith to pray. You must have faith to ponder the word of God. You must have faith to do those things and go to those places which invite the Spirit of Christ and the Holy Ghost.

We are living through a remarkably privileged era, when certain deep truths about the cosmos are still within reach of the human spirit of exploration.

The best counsel for us to give young people is that they can arrive back to Heavenly Father only as they are guided and corrected by the Spirit of God. So if we are wise, we will encourage, praise, and exemplify everything which invites the companionship of the Holy Ghost.

Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.

It's not a struggle to be on a diet. You feel lighter, and your spirit is lighter, too. But I love chocolate, and I allow myself to have chocolate. That doesn't go against a diet for me.

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

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

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

We are spirit children of a loving Heavenly Father who placed us in mortality to see if we would choose - freely choose - to keep His commandments and come unto His Beloved Son. They do not compel us. They cannot, for that would interfere with the plan of happiness. And so there is in us a God-given desire to be responsible for our own choices.

A woman whose life is involved in the righteous rearing of her children has a better chance of keeping up her spirits than the woman whose total concern is centered in her own personal problems.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

Through reading the scriptures, we can gain the assurance of the Spirit that that which we read has come of God for the enlightenment, blessing, and joy of his children.

The religions that fascinate me and, you know, could possibly tempt me are not the ones that involve faith or belief. They're the ones that offer you the opportunity to know the spirit or deity.

My father was a joyous, joyous spirit, he really was. He was a hedonist, that was just - he enjoyed life, thrust up to the elbows with it. He was a terrible father. I don't know that he was parented that well.

As we gain experience with the Holy Ghost, we learn that the intensity with which we feel the Spirit's influence is not always the same.

No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.

Lord sanctify us. Oh! That Thy spirit might come and saturate every faculty, subdue every passion, and use every power of our nature for obedience to God.

Repentance allows God's mercy to come forth because it recognizes that the sin committed was against God. It also bares contriteness of the heart and the desire to walk in the Spirit and not in the flesh so that particular sin will never be repeated.

Jesus never mistreated anyone just because they mistreated Him. He confronted them in a spirit of gentleness and then continued to love them.

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There's really not that much difference between you and I. And my name really doesn't matter. Hopefully, my heart and my spirit matters to you. Hopefully.

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

Man is ever searching for the source whence he has come, searching for the life which is upwelling within him, immortal, nay, eternal and divine; and every religion is the answer from the Universal Spirit to the seeking spirits of men that came forth from Him.

I have a foot here and a foot in some spirit world. There are many more layers to reality, and that permeates my life and my writing in a very natural way. I don't even think about it.

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.

I'm young at heart. I'm young in spirit, and I'm still adventurous.

I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

Nelson Mandela is physically separated from us, but his soul and spirit will never die. He belongs to the whole world because he is an icon of equality, freedom and love, the values we need all the time everywhere.

America is the spirit of human exploration distilled.

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

There is something greater than any nation; it is the spirit which created the nation.

Persecutions are inevitable as a Christian. We are not greater than our Master, Jesus Christ, in whose Holy Spirit we gain strength to endure.

Through the grace of Christ we shall live in obedience to the law of God written upon our hearts. Having the Spirit of Christ, we shall walk even as He walked.

God's people are peculiar. Their spirit cannot mingle with the spirit and influence of the world. You do not wish to bear the Christian name and yet be unworthy of it.

I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

When we have fallen and need to get back up again, we are able to do it in His strength walking in His Spirit. Cling to the Spirit of Christ Jesus - He will never fail.

There is need occasionally to leave the noise and the tumult of the world and step within the walls of a sacred house of God, there to feel His Spirit in an environment of holiness and peace.

Unless generosity of spirit prevails among men, there can never be upon earth an ideal life.

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.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.