Inspirational Quote by John Updike Download Open image “Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things.” — John Updike ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Inspirational Mean Men Religion Spirit
The Spirit of man is like a kite, which rises by means of those very forces which seem to oppose its rise; the tie… — Coventry Patmore Copy Share Image
The sense that a man is serving a Higher than himself, with a service which will become ever more and more perfect freedom, evokes… — John Campbell Shairp Copy Share Image
Man is a part of the world, and his spirit is part of the spirit of the world. We are merely a peculiar mode… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
“Now man is a mixed organization of soul and flesh, who was formed after the likeness of God, and moulded by His hands, that… — The Church Fathers Copy Share Image
What is man? ... What a strange union of matter and mind! A machine for converting material into spiritual force. — Benjamin Peirce Copy Share Image
Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order that he… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Man is a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex, multiform creature that bears within itself strange legacies of thought and passion,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Man is a spiritual being, a soul, and at some period of his life everyone is possessed with an irresistible desire to know his… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
A man's deeds shape and mould his spirit, for better or worse, according to his deeds. — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us. — John Updike Copy Share Image
I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The New England spirit does not seek solutions in a crowd; raw light and solitariness are less dreaded than welcomed as enhancers of our… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Families, doing everything for each other out of imagined obligation and always getting in each other's way, what a tangle. — John Updike Copy Share Image
“The mind cannot fall asleep as long as it watches itself. Only when the mind moves unwatched and becomes absorbed in images that tug it as it were to one side does self-consciousness dissolve and sleep with its healing, brilliantly detailed fictions pour in upon the jittery spirit. Falling asleep is a study in trust. Likewise, religion tries to put… — John Updike Copy Share
In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and subtler ramifications… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Her hair had been going gray as long as he could remember; she bundled it behind in a bun held with hairpins that he… — John Updike Copy Share Image
We talk to God--that is prayer; God talks to us--that is inspiration. — H. Emilie Cady Copy Share Image
You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just understand that the good that you want is already here. All you have to do is get in harmony with it. And you… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
