Stirs Quotes
141 Stirs quotes by 123 unique authors
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The [nonprofit] sector enhances our creativity, enlivens our communities, nurtures individual responsibility, stirs life at the grassroots, and reminds us that we were born free.
— John W. Gardner
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Dance music ... stirs some barbaric instinct - lulled asleep in our sober lives - you forget centuries of civilization in a second, & yield…
— Virginia Woolf
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The room shall speak, it must catch me up and hold me, I want to feel that I belong here, I want to hearken and…
— Erich Maria Remarque
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For every moment the sea is peace and relief, there is another when it shivers and stirs to become chaos. It's just as ready to…
— Tim Winton
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It's our Christian duty to offer spiritual worship to God that engages our minds, stirs our hearts & flows from our lips
— Alistair Begg
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'Every good endowment and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights' (Jms. 1:17). But there is something more. Inspired…
— Pope Dionysius
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In order to profit from this path [of prayer] and ascend to the dwelling places we desire, the important thing is not to think much…
— Teresa of Avila
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Next to meditation is music, soulful music, the music that stirs and elevates our aspiring consciousness.
— Sri Chinmoy
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Nothing speaks louder than an evocative photograph that stirs the imagination, tugs at the heart strings and engages the mind.
— Mark Carwardine
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Synchronicity is an inexplicable and profoundly meaningful coincidence that stirs the soul and offers a glimpse of one's destiny.
— Phil Cousineau
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Find the thing that stirs your heart and make room for it
— Joan D. Chittister
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Upon occasion we should go as far as intoxication.... Drink washes cares away, stirs the mind from its lowest depths.... But in liberty moderation is…
— Seneca the Younger
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Christ dazzles me and stirs within me such feelings of amazement that I can never get over Him.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Oh! now to be alone, on some grand height, Where heaven’s black curtains shadow all the sight, And watch the swollen clouds their bosom clash,…
— Robert Montgomery
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With each day in Africa, a gazelle wakes up knowing he must outrun the fastest lion or perish. At the same time, a lion stirs…
— Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
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A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. ... A writer has the duty to be…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses…
— Richard Le Gallienne
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There is something very wonderful about music. Words are wonderful enough; but music is even more wonderful. It speaks not to our thoughts as words…
— Charles Kingsley
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Music, I think, is best when it honestly explores personal demons, and it stirs around in the silt of the psyche to find out what's…
— Tom Morello
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Nothing stirs God’s heart more than a humble heart and a merciful spirit. God responds to mercy, because it is through compassion that we fully…
— Nicky Cruz
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I do not love the sea. The look of it is disquieting. There is something in the very sound of it that stirs the premonition…
— H. M. Tomlinson
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I have never seen white so absolute / And alone, glistening in awkward form / Dreaming across the water a bright path. / As it…
— John O'Donohue
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O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies; not the smallest atom stirs or lives on matter,…
— Herman Melville
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It's hard to tell / if we close our eyes or if night / opens in us other starred eyes, / if it burrows into…
— Pablo Neruda
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We should bathe our spirits in the deep, pure feeling that stirs within us when we gaze on the glories of His creation. This is…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
Who Wrote These Stirs Quotes
123 authors contributed a total of 141 Stirs Quotes, led by these top contributors: