Quotes
Quotes about Spirit
O white and midnight sky, O starry bath,
Wash me in thy pure, heavenly crystal flood:
Cleanse me, ye stars, from earthly soil and scath--
Let not one taint remain in spirit or blood!
The fire upon the hearth is low,
And there is stillness everywhere,
And, like winged spirits, here and there
The firelight shadows fluttering go.
Chance cannot touch me! Time cannot hush me!
Fear, hope, and longing, at strife,
Sink as I rise, on, on, upward forever,
Gathering strength, gaining breath,--naught can sever
Me from the Spirit of Life!
Thou hast wounded the spirit that loved thee
And cherish'd thine image for years;
Thou hast taught me at last to forget thee,
In secret, in silence, and tears.
Xenophanes was the first person who asserted... that the soul is a spirit.
The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light,--although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
Take, O boatman, thrice thy fee,--
Take, I give it willingly;
For, invisible to thee,
Spirits twain have crossed with me.
Only one thing is necessary: to possess God--All the senses, all the forces of the soul and of the spirit, all the exterior resources are so many open outlets to the Divinity; so many ways of tasting and of adoring God. We should be able to detach ourselves from all that is perishable and cling absolutely to the eternal and the absolute and enjoy the all else as a loan, as a usufruct.... To worship, to comprehend, to receive, to feel, to give, to act: this our law, our duty, our happiness, our heaven.
Only the spirit of rebellion craves for happiness in this life. What right have we human beings to happiness?
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
A wounded spirit who can bear?
All is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was; and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
The spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord.
Give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness.
The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
Absent in body, but present in spirit.
Not of the letter, but of the spirit; for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
The spirits of just men made perfect.
Ornament of a meek and quiet spirit.
An outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace.
There is, for everybody, a first time. A psychedelic moment, as they say or used to say nowadays, an instant of recognition of verbally inexpressible spiritual realities, a meaning for the term beauty.
Spiritual, surely. Paradise regained.
Spirits can be brought back from the dead, and hell is not a fable
