Spirit Quotes · Page 140

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

— John Fiske

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

— Mahatma Gandhi

So the first thing in democracy, people must have satisfaction. If you don't have satisfaction, it's not going to work out.

— Nirmala Srivastava

And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

— John Frusciante

I admire some people for their brilliance and I respect others for their strength. But I am indebted to those who can…

— Steve Goodier

I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops.

— Odilon Redon

A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.

— Wayne Dyer

Fear is an enemy that can be killed only at close range. The closest range of all is intimacy. The deeper the…

— Andrew Vachss

I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a…

— Alice Walker

It is everyone's right to achieve this state of ones evolution and everything necessary is already inbuilt. But as I respect your…

— Nirmala Srivastava

Without Holy Spirit boldness, the world will remain unevangelized... there can never be a substitute for the power of the Spirit working…

— George Verwer

I would say it simply: No one can give that which he doesn't personally possess, which means we cannot transmit the Holy…

— Pope Benedict XVI

It is the great support and solace of the saints in all the distresses that befall them here, that there is a…

— John Flavel

When you're desireless you are happy because you are never disappointed, you are never nervous. So to be desireless doesn't mean that…

— Nirmala Srivastava

Think not I dread to see my spirit fly, Through the dark gates of fell mortality; Death has no terrors when the…

— Omar Khayyam

Only the Holy Spirit has the power to make the changes God wants to make in our lives… We allow Christ to…

— Rick Warren

I have found on Alpha that those from an essentially enlightened background feel at home with the parts of the course which…

— Nicky Gumbel

But do let me reiterate the spirit of Michigan. It is based upon a deathless loyalty to Michigan and all her ways;…

— Fielding H. Yost

The heart of God through his creation stirs, We thrill to feel it, trembling as the flowers That die to live again,…

— Celia Thaxter

Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pokanoket, and many other once powerful tribes of our people?…

— Tecumseh

The true church is not made of creeds and forms, nor is it contained in walls of wood and stone; the heart…

— Charles Fillmore

With Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward has written the best sort of novel-a beautiful, important book that's both unflinching and tender, heartbreaking…

— Skip Horack

Inspiration is the most valuable commodity for an artist; it is for me anyway. I can't move forward in any way if…

— Mark Ryden

If you want to change the world's spirit, I will suggest that only poetry can do this.

— Andrei Voznesensky

Fasting reduces the power of self so that the Holy Spirit can do a more intense work within us.

— Bill Bright

I just love that spirit that makes people do things that they probably shouldn't.

— Johnny Knoxville

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

But I will win and give her my spirit, because this is the way a mother loves her daughter. -Ying Ying

— Amy Tan

We've got unmatched talent, innovation, entrepreneurial spirit, so when we work together, we can all benefit.

— Hillary Clinton

There is no greater hindrance to the progress of thought than an attitude of irritated party-spirit.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Hurry up, Hurry up. We dont have time. Yeah thats obvious...no wrist watch.

— Inyang Richard Victor

To substitute Scripture for the self-revealing Spirit is to put the dead letter in the place of the living Word.

— Sebastian Franck

We cannot really look at the movement of the Spirit, just because It is the Power by which we do the looking.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To me, there is spirit in a reed. It's a living thing, a weed, really, and it does contain spirit of a…

— Steve Lacy

The essential difference in service is not machines or 'things.' The essential difference is minds, hearts, spirits, and souls.

— Herb Kelleher

Nothing becomes reality in the political life of a nation that was not present in its literature as spirit.

— Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Perhaps the spirit of the Everglades was most evident in the unseen, the hidden, the implied.

— T. J. MacGregor