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Spirit Quotes



"Do you know that every unbeliever is filled with a demon spirit?"



"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."



"I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief."



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



"Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free."



"We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained."



"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."



"The Holy Spirit alone can do this, the Holy Spirit alone can establish this link with one's neighbor."



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



"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."



"Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!"



"The spirit of arrogance most definitely makes you shine. It paints a bright red target on your own forehead."


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



"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."



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



"A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit."



"Thou, my slave,As thou report'st thyself, was then her servant,And for thou wast a spirit too delicateTo act her earthy and abhorred commands,Refusing her grand hests, she did confine thee,By help of her more potent ministersAnd in her most unmitigable rage,Into a cloven pine, within which riftImprisoned thou didst painfully remainA dozen years; within which space she diedAnd left thee there, where thou didst vent thy groansAs fast as mill wheels strike."



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


"When we hear our souls speak, we are free."



"The spirit finds a way to be born. Instinct seeks for ways to survive."



"The term spirit might have evolved in a mystical fashion, but in today's civilized and thinking society, it refers to simply your inner self. Spirit is the self, and the self is the soul. Hence, a spiritual person is a person who is more interested in realizing his or her inner self, than giving in to any conformity of the society."



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


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



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



"How now, spirit, whither wander you?"


"Old soul cries through the tears of a newborn."



"Mutual forbearance and reciprocal concessions: thro' their agency the Union was established - the patriotic spirit from which they emanated will forever sustain it."



"I tell you I can't be bothered with things like that. I've got a soul above buttons."
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