Great Spirit Quotes - Page 5

• I trust, and I recognize the beneficence of the power which we all worship as supreme- Order, Fate, the Great Spirit, Nature, God. I recognize this power in the sun that makes all things grow and keeps life afoot. I make a friend of this indefinable force…this is my religion of optimism.

  Helen Keller

  Fate, Order, Optimism

  Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• The Great Spirit is everywhere; He hears whatever is in our minds and our hearts, and it is not necessary to speak to Him in a loud voice.

  Black Elk

  Heart, Voice, Mind

  "The Sacred Pipe : Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux" recorded and edited by Joseph Epes Brown, 1953.

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• Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so much time, which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base, is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone, and is needed most by those who suffer from it most.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hate, Son, Iron

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.26, Library of America

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• We have to keep our God placated with prayer, and even then we are never sure of him-how much higher and finer is the Indian's God...Our illogical God is all-powerful in name, but impotent in fact; the Great Spirit is not all-powerful, but does the very best he can for his injun and does it free of charge

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Prayer, Powerful

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• Brother, the Great Spirit has made us all. . . . .

  Seneca the Younger

  Brother, Spirit, Made

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• The path to glory is rough, and many gloomy hours obscure it. May the Great Spirit shed light on your path, so that you may never experience the humility that the power of the American government has reduced me to. This is the wish of a man who, in his native forests, was once as proud and bold as yourself.

  Black Hawk

  Humility, Men, Light

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• My reason teaches me that land cannot be sold. The Great Spirit gave it to his children to live upon. So long as they occupy and cultivate it, they have a right to the soil. Nothing can be sold but such things as can be carried away

  Black Hawk

  Children, Native American, Land

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• The chiefest action for a man of great spirit is never to be out of action... the soul was never put into the body to stand still.

  John Webster

  Men, Soul, Body

  John Webster, Alexander Dyce (1877). “The Works of John Webster: With Some Account of the Author, and Notes”, p.108

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• Men of great spirit are at high risk at a time when small souls rule the world.

  Robert Silverberg

  Men, Soul, Risk

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• I believe in the great spirit and intelligence of Americans.

  Cindy McCain

  Believe, Spirit, I Believe

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• There's nothing better than meeting somebody with a great soul, and a great spirit and a good heart.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Heart, Soul, Spirit

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• When I feel good, the crowd is behind me, have a great spirit, I think I can be very tough to beat.

  Gael Monfils

  Thinking, Feel Good, Crowds

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• Love is a great spirit. Everything spiritual is in between god and mortal.

  Plato

  Spiritual, Love Is, Mortals

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• Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Being Yourself

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.149, Princeton University Press

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• We do not want churches because they will teach us to quarrel about God. We do not want to learn that. We may quarrel with men sometimes about things on this earth, but we never quarrel about the Great Spirit. We do not want to learn that.

  Chief Joseph

  Men, Justice, Diversity

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• Brothers, we must be united; we must smoke the same pipe; we must fight each other's battles; and more than all, we must love the Great Spirit.

  Tecumseh

  Brother, Native American, Fighting

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• You cannot evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time.

  George William Russell

  Time, Plums, Spirit

  "Across My Path" by Pelham Edgar, (p. 148), 1952.

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• I am not here for me
  I am not here to promote my ego
  I am here to serve the Great Spirit
  To be a voice for those afraid to speak
  To be movement for those who are stuck
  I am here to reveal a mystery
  To learn something new about myself

  Holly Near

  Voice, Ego, Movement

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• You’re worthy because the Great Spirit, or Universe, or God, or whatever you want to call a higher power, has put you on the earth at this time. There’s nothing else to think about! Since you’re as worthy as the next person, you’re as deserving to receive as anyone else. Anything else that your mind says around that is made up, non-supportive crappola!

  T. Harv Eker

  Thinking, Mind, Supportive

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Aug 22, 2011

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• I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.

  Sitting Bull

  Sitting, Spirit, Chiefs

  Sitting Bull, Mark Diedrich (1998). “Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches”

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• Respect is that great spirit of good, which creates the beautiful space giving all souls the simple room to breathe.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Beautiful, Simple, Space

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• We scored a goal and defended until the end with great spirit. We have a lot of young players and I hope we can keep on like this.

  Lorik Cana

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• I am ready to talk today. I have been in a great many councils, but I am no wiser. We are all sprung from a woman, although we are unlike in many things. We can not be made over again. You are as you were made, and as you were made you can remain. We are just as we were made by the Great Spirit, and you can not change us ; then why should children of one mother and one father quarrel ? — why should one try to cheat the other ? I do not believe that the Great Spirit Chief gave one kind of men the right to tell another kind of men what they must do.

  Chief Joseph

  Mother, Children, Father

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• Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors - the dreams of our old men, given them in solemn hours of the night by the Great Spirit; and the visions of our sachems, and is written in the hearts of our people.

  Chief Seattle

  Dream, Native American, Heart

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• The Great Spirit will not make me suffer because I am ignorant. He will put me in a place where I shall be better off than in this world.

  Red Cloud

  Ignorant, Suffering, World

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