Spirit Quotations | Page 5

The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

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

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

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

There's a certain je ne sais quoi that Americans have in spades - a we-can-do-anything spirit that makes so many things possible for all of us. We're rugged individualists, aspirational in nature, and we like to think for ourselves.

Fear is a spirit that produces a feeling.

This I have observed: There are no language barriers in the Church. There is a mighty power that transcends the power of messages conveyed by words alone, and this is the power of messages communicated by the Spirit to our hearts.

The persecuting spirit has its origin . . . in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct.

The point of the primary program is to be developmentally appropriate rather than age appropriate. This keeps in the spirit of that.

We applaud him because his statement was swift, it was responsible, and it was contrite, ... We accepted the contrition and the spirit behind it and our board, in our session, unanimously accepted this statement as well as accepted Rev. Jackson's apology.

We are pleased to have reached this agreement with HBC today and to be associated with a company with such a long and proud history. As the company's largest shareholder for more than two years, we are aware of the tremendous opportunities available to HBC. We are committed to enhancing our customers' shopping experience through a substantially greater focus on service and revitalizing the spirit of the organization.

We are pleased to bring to New York the spirit of Sundance. Our collaboration with BAM is the keystone of our 25th Anniversary celebration plans during the year.

We are looking to this conference for a return, if you like, to the spirit of SARS.

Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine, / And all, save the spirit of man, is divine.

Where the Church is, there is the Spirit of God. And there the Spirit is, there is the Church and all grace.

We appreciate the spirit of cooperation and collaboration this action symbolizes. We are now in process of jointly costing out the proposal to determine whether it meets the cost targets established.

We're making a credible posture and a presence. There's no shortage of volunteers -- it's amazing, the volunteer spirit of our people.

What a lovely honor it is to have Spirit Airlines dedicate a new plane to our islands. We are most appreciative and wish Spirit Airlines wonderful success.

What he has done for those children, making it possible for them to attend a school named for him, makes him more special than anything else, ... Andre is the spirit of the game. He speaks brilliantly, acts like a gentleman and fights like a teenager.

What hasn't he done for prime time is more the question. I think he has brought a strong new creative spirit and the wonderful ability to take chances back to network prime-time television.

We're going to have our hands full in the first round. I hope our emotional spirit comes back a little bit stronger than it was tonight.

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.

Working closely with World Baseball Classic Inc. and the State Department, we were able to reach a licensable agreement that upholds both the legal scope and the spirit of the sanctions. This agreement ensures that no funding will make its way into the hands of the Castro regime.

Three wins in a row has given us a lift and If it's down to spirit and confidence then I fancy us.

With the Spirit and magnifying your call, you can do miracles for the Lord in the mission field. Without the Spirit, you will never succeed, regardless of your talent and ability.

We know his spirit will always be with us, ... He had 21 great years. Dylan is in a better place.

It's more important to be healthy and of good spirit than it is to be thin, just as it's more important to be an attractive woman than a fashionable one.

There are no people on earth in whom a spirit of enthusiastic zeal is so readily kindled, and burns so remarkably, as Americans

The spirit was willing but the flesh was weak.

I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.

Criticism at its best is re-creative, not spirit-killing.

Victimhood and a 'can't do' spirit is what the Democratic Party has mostly been about since the Great Depression.

Painting doesn't mean just describing; it's a state of spirit.

Writing for 'Rooster' was a strange experience. It's funny, once you tap into a voice, words just start to flow. You know when you've hit a spirit or captured something.

We've got great team spirit -- we want to keep giving our all to try and win rather than sitting back and wondering what might have been,

The pioneering spirit is less about thinking up new ideas, as ridding ourselves of dogmas and habits that hold us captive in thinking.

...the spirit reveals itself to everyone with the same intensity and consistency, but only warriors are consistently attuned to such revelations.

...to tune the spirit when someone is trampling on you is called control

Fright never injures anyone. What injures the spirit is having someone always on your back, beating you, telling you what to do and what not to do

We have no choice and it's going to be a tough game. It's going to be a competitive game and I'll be very disappointed if we don't bring the fight and spirit that we had here tonight.

Intelligence and proper education will give you independence of spirit.

Attitude and the spirit in which we communicate are as important as the words we say.

If we walk in the Spirit daily, surrendered to His power, we have the right to expect anything we need to hear from God. The Holy Spirit living within us and speaking to us ought to be the natural, normal lifestyle of believers.

I think the Bible is hugely patriarchal. There are so many sexist comments and homophobic comments and comments that are not in keeping with nurturing and loving the human spirit.

True religion is removed from diet and days, from garments and ceremonies, and placed where it belongs - in the union of the spirit of man with the Spirit of God.

Distractions must be conquered or they will conquer us. So let us cultivate simplicity; let us walk in the Spirit...

The church can have light only as it is full of the Spirit, and it can be full only as the members that compose it are filled individually.

When a person, yielding to God and believing the truth of God, is filled with the Spirit of God, even his faintest whisper will be worship.

We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone.

I want to live so fully in the Spirit that...every act of my life may be an act of worship.

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.

Because we have shut out the Holy Spirit in so many ways, we are stumbling along as though we are spiritually blindfolded.

When we have the Holy Spirit we have all that is needed to be all that God desires us to be.

Religion can reform a person’s life, but it can never transform him. Only the Holy Spirit can transform!

When the Holy Spirit is in full control of our lives, He will expect our obedience to the written Word of God. But it is part of our human problem that we would like to be full of the Spirit and yet go on and do as we please!

We want to substantially put greater emphasis on customer service and customer satisfaction. We really want to revitalize the spirit of the organization. It needs to be a much greater competitor.

I know the human spirit. I haven't found a wall that can be built that a determined human being can't get over, under or around.

A frisky spirit makes my trombone sing.

I am...sad and angry. Why is my spirit so sad and angry? I look back at my life and all I can remember is rage and rage and rage.

Elvis, stop dat! You know it is taboo to whistle at night. You will attract a spirit.

The spirit of dance is an amazing thing. When the body and the spirit meet, it's a good thing.

Those whose kernels were cracked by benevolent spirit should not forget to be humble.

I’m a free spirit who never had the balls to be free.

Our spirits grow gray before our hairs.

The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

I realize I'm a free spirit. I like to be happy. I have to have more control of my happiness.

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.

Sin spoils the spirit's delicacy, and unwillingness deadens its susceptibility.

The Spirit never makes men the instruments of converting others until they feel that they cannot do it themselves; that their skill in argument, in persuasion, in management, avails nothing.

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

He was himself a case in point, and perhaps not a rare one, for his spirit, it seemed, had been burned out of him but he was yet walking.

God desires that we become spiritually healthy enough through faith to have a conscience that rightly interprets the work of the Holy Spirit.

Christ sets us free by the power of His Spirit; then He maintains our freedom as we learn to live from day to day in the power of that Spirit.

When we think we’re at the mercy of our circumstances and past, we discount the power that is ours through the Holy Spirit.

When the Spirit of God moves within us, we must move with Him or be miserable.

A person full of the Holy Spirit cannot be full of self. Pride never accompanies power in the fully yielded life.

You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.

The Holy Spirit accompanies God's Word to bring revelation of Christ, resulting in transformation.

The truth is that the glory of God is the person and presence of God- The glory is the Holy Spirit .

Had the Holy Spirit not been with Jesus, He would have sinned

My heroes are the non-commissioned officers. If I had another life thats what Id be - a regimental sergeant major or a similar rank. Thats where the spirit of the armed forces is.

We are all going to read Quixote to feed our spirit with this fighter who came out to get rid of injustice and fix the world, ... To some degree, we are followers of Quixote.

The spirit of Columbus hovers over us to-day.

Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit.

The only true disability is a crushed spirit

No one can long worship God in spirit and in truth before the obligation to holy service becomes too strong to resist.

We have been given the privilege to host this presence. The Holy Spirit is in me for my sake but he is upon me for yours.

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

Beauty fades. Your spirit is forever.

God is an ever-present spirit guiding all that happens to a wise and holy end.

The ages of greatest public spirit are not always eminent for private virtue.

Whatever else you fail of, do not fail of the influence of the Holy Spirit; that is the only way you can handle the consciences of men.

In the silences I make in the midst of the turmoil of life I have appointments with God. From these silences I come forth with spirit refreshed, and with a renewed sense of power. I hear a voice in the silences, and become increasingly aware that it is the voice of God.

Authorship is, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, an infamy, a pastime, a day-labor, a handicraft, an art, a science, a virtue.

The saxophone is the embodied spirit of beer.

We accept the offer in the spirit in which it's been offered, but I don't really see it as any kind of dramatic change. I think it's in part a public relations effort on his part. But we have to take in the context as part of a cycle where some positive things are said, and then some negative, unhelpful things are said. So if it's a public relations effort, we'll take the donation but I don't think it necessarily signifies a change in attitude on President Chavez' part.

We also share a bold spirit and wry sense of humor.

I got on my knees and sort of communicated with the spirits. When I came out, I was in charge. I couldn't have acted that, I couldn't have written that.

The most abundant, least used, and most abused resource in the world is human spirit and ingenuity.