Spirit Quotes

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  Trying to do the Lord's work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Christian, Jesus, Confusing

  Corrie ten Boom (1974). “Tramp for the Lord: The Story that Begins Where The Hiding Place Ends”, p.63, CLC Publications

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• Spirit is an invisible force made visible in all life.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Spiritual, Invisible

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.18, Bantam

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• Open the window of your heart and let the Spirit speak

  Rumi

  Heart, Speak, Window

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• There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter.

  Mother Teresa

  Powerful, Healing, Light

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• Every life has a purpose. We need to let go of the past. Live in the present. Do not waste today worrying about what will happen tomorrow. Embrace your true spirit, embrace and listen to grace and you be transformed in the moment. Do not fixate on what you want but give thanks for what you have.

  Caroline Myss

  Life, Thankful, Letting Go

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• Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

  Bernard Williams

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

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• My affairs are in the keeping of Infinite Wisdom. I am guided by Divine Intelligence. The activity of Spirit inspires my mind and flows through my actions. Life lies open to me, rich, full and abundant.

  Ernest Holmes

  Lying, Inspire, Mind

  Ernest Holmes (2012). “The Science of Mind Collection”, p.552, Penguin

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• You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

  Henry Drummond

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Henry Drummond (2013). “Beautiful Thoughts from Henry Drummond”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

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  In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

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• The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Soul, Foundation

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• No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• God's Word refreshes our mind and God's Spirit renews our strength.

  T. B. Joshua

  Mind

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• I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that deep within you don't know already. All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Truth, Forgotten

  FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Jun 20, 2009

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• Spirituality is natural goodness. God is not a person; God is a presence personified in us. Spirituality is not a thing; it is the atmosphere of God's Presence, goodness, truth, and beauty.

  Ernest Holmes

  Beauty, Truth, Atmosphere

  Ernest Holmes (2012). “The Science of Mind Collection”, p.216, Penguin

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• If the Holy Spirit was withdrawn from the church today, 95 percent of what we do would go on and no one would know the difference. If the Holy Spirit had been withdrawn from the New Testament church, 95 percent of what they did would stop, and everybody would know the difference.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Church Today, Differences

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• Deep listening is miraculous for both listener and speaker. When someone receives us with open- hearted, non-judging, intensely interested listening, our spirits expand.

  Sue Thoele

  Summer, Communication, Judging

  Sue Patton Thoele (2000). “Heart centered marriage: fulfilling our natural desire for sacred partnership”

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• Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Meaningful

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.231, Princeton University Press

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• I greet every new day with the words, 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.' That's the state of mind that directs me, fulfills me, and sends me out into the world with a gift to share. It's a blessing that I have learned over a lifetime - to experience the presence of Spirit in most of my waking moments. It's a feeling of contentment and satisfaction, of peace and love.

  Wayne Dyer

  Blessing, New Day, Feelings

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• The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Sports, Football

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• Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the Lord.

  Thomas Brooks

  Prayer, Breathing, Firsts

  Thomas Brooks (1820). “The privie key of heaven; or Twenty arguments for closet-prayer, in a select discourse”, p.126

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• Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Disappointment, Greatness, Strive

  W. E. B. Du Bois (1980). “Prayers for Dark People”

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• If we don’t have the Word of God as the foundation of what we believe, we will have a faulty footing—it will not stand against the elements that will come against us. God has designed both our physical and spiritual lives to be ordered by one key attribute upon which the fruit of the Spirit is based—that foundation is love.

  David Jeremiah

  Spiritual, Believe, Keys

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• Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

  John Muir

  Nature, Heart, I Hate You

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• The church that is man-managed instead of God-governed is doomed to failure. A ministry that is college-trained but not Spirit-filled works no miracles.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  College, Men, Miracle

  Leonard Ravenhill (2004). “Why Revival Tarries”, p.100, Bethany House

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