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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."


"Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal."


"It is an understanding with the Great Spirit or Creator that we will follow these ways."


"A free spirit is not bound by this, that, matter, materialism or opinion. They sing, dance and flow on the wind - for they are at one with it. They are nothing and everything - void and expanse. Even space and time does not confine or define them. For they are pure energy itself."


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


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


"There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness."


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


"But you are not your bank account, or your ambition. You're not the cold clay lump you leave behind when you die. You're not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are Spirit, you are love, and even though it is hard to believe sometimes, you are free. You're here to love, and be loved, freely. If you find out next week that you are terminally ill - and we're all terminally ill on this bus - what will matter are memories of beauty, that people loved you, and that you loved them."


"I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am."


"Fly with a kind heart, a light spirit, and a resilient soul."



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


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


"She is a rare soul, she has this infectious energy that makes you want to run next to her, she belonged to no one but herself & to anyone that was yet understand themselves, found the missing pieces in her presence."


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


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


"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."



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



"The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour."


"We are souls of unlimited possibilities, yet limited by our minds!"


"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."


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


"Fortunate are those who take the first step. Someday people will realize that men and women are capable of speaking the language of the angels - that all of us are possessed of the gifts of the Holy Spirit and that we can perform miracles, cure, prophesy, and understand."


"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."



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


"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."


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


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


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


"You know a wild spirit just by looking at them, they carry a vibe that doesn't appear often but when it does my god you won't forget them. They are always passing through lives, never staying put, but always remembered long after they have left. These souls are kindred spirits, they connect deeply or not at all."


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


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