Spirit Quotes - Page 25

• If you seek to help, join the open source community and fight to keep the spirit of the press alive and the internet free. I have been to the darkest corners of government, and what they fear is light.

  Edward Snowden

  Fighting, Light, Government

  "How I Met Edward Snowden" by Glenn Greenwald, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 13, 2014.

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• Do I guard myself, my heart, my feelings, my thoughts? Do I guard the treasure of grace? Do I guard the presence of the Holy Spirit in me? Or do I let go, feeling secure, believing that all is going well?

  Pope Francis

  Letting Go, Believe, Heart

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• I do not know what might be the most fitting description.... I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner. And this is what I said when they asked me if I would accept my election as pontiff: I am a sinner, but I trust in the infinite mercy and patience of our Lord Jesus Christ, and I accept in a spirit of penance.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Literary Genre, Speech

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• To be prophets, in particular, by demonstrating how Jesus lived on this earth, and to proclaim how the kingdom of God will be in its perfection. A religious must never give up prophesising Let us think about what so many great saints, monks and religious men and women have done, from St Anthony the Abbot onward. Being prophets may sometimes involve making ruido [Spanish for noise]. I do not know how to put it Prophecy makes noise, uproar, some say 'a mess.' But in reality, the charism of religious people is like yeast: prophecy announces the spirit of the Gospel.

  Pope Francis

  Religious, Jesus, Giving Up

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• Never be hurried in anything. Do all things calmly and in a spirit of repose. Do not lose your inward peace even if everything seems to be going wrong. What is anything in life compared to peace of soul?

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Soul, Inward, Ifs

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• In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where she thought she could help.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Mother, Suffering, Literature

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• The punishment – to the body, the brain, the spirit – a man must endure to become even a moderately good boxer is inconceivable to most of us whose idea of personal risk is largely ego-related or emotional.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Men, Emotional, Ideas

  Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “On Boxing”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• Art is the highest expression of the human spirit.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Art, Expression, Humans

  Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art”, p.1, Zondervan

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• In Switzerland, on a high mountain, not far from Lucerne, there is a lake they call Pilate's Pond, which the Devil has fixed upon as one of the chief residences of his evil spirits.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Humor, Lakes

  Martin Luther (1862). “The Life of Luther Written by Himself”, p.321

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• Let us be under no illusion. The Jewish spirit, which was responsible for the alliance of large-scale capital with Marxism and was the driving force behind so many anti-Spanish revolutionary agreements, will not be got rid of in a day.

  Francisco Franco

  Agreement, Alliances, Driving

  Victory speech in Madrid, May 19, 1939.

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• There is something about Sundiata [Acoli] that exudes calm. From every part of his being you can sense the presence of revolutionary spirit and fervor. And his love for Black people is so intense that you can almost touch it and hold it in your hand.

  Assata Shakur

  Hands, People, Black

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• Peace is a rare gift. Peace of mind, peaceful sleeps, and peaceful spirits are all luxuries that few rebels can ever afford.

  Assata Shakur

  Sleep, Luxury, Peaceful

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• The inventor is a man who looks around upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to benefit the world; he is haunted by an idea. The spirit of invention possesses him, seeking materialization.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Men, Ideas, Looks

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• One might say that where Religion becomes artificial, it is reserved for Art to save the spirit of religion.

  Richard Wagner

  Art, Might, Reserved

  Richard Wagner (1972). “Prose works”

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• The spirit listens only when the speaker speaks in gestures. And gestures do not mean signs or body movements, but acts of true abandon, acts of largesse, of humor. As a gesture to the spirit, warriors bring out the best of themselves and silently offer it to the abstract.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Mean, Warrior, Movement

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• Fright never injures anyone. What injures the spirit is having someone always on your back, beating you, telling you what to do and what not to do

  Carlos Castaneda

  Fright

  Carlos Castaneda (1991). “Journey To Ixtlan”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit.

  Herb Alpert

  Taken, Sound, Mexico

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• I need not instruct you of my belief: Time gives all and takes all away ; everything changes but nothing perishes ; One only is immutable, eternal and ever endures, one and the same with itself. With this philosophy my spirit grows, my mind expands. Whereof, how r ever obscure the night may be, I await daybreak, and they who dwell in day look for night Rejoice therefore, and keep whole, if you can, and return love for love.

  Giordano Bruno

  Philosophy, Night, Giving

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• Well, you know, there's depression and depression. What I mean by depression in my own case is that depression isn't just the blues. It's not just like I have a hangover in the weekend ... the girl didn't show up or something like that. It isn't that. It's not really depression, it's a kind of mental violence which stops you from functioning properly from one moment to the next. You lose something somewhere and suddenly you're gripped by a kind of angst of the heart and of the spirit.

  Leonard Cohen

  Girl, Hangover, Heart

  "Depression and Depression: Paul Krugman, Leonard Cohen and St. Paul" by Christopher Cocca, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 20, 2011.

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• I think they must mix blood, otherwise the human race is bound to degenerate. Mixing blood is marvelous. It makes strong and intelligent men. It takes away tired spirits.

  Josephine Baker

  Strong, Tired, Intelligent

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• The Americans who went to Europe to die are a unique breed.... (They) crossed the seas to a foreign land to fight for a cause which they did not pretend was peculiarly their own, which they knew was the cause of humanity and mankind. These Americans gave the greatest of all gifts, the gift of life and the gift of spirit.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Fighting, Unique, Europe

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• The change that is coming to the body of Christ is so profound that the world will have a new definition of Christianity... Those who submit to Him in truth... will be the most dangerous and powerful people on earth, and will be the greatest threat to the Antichrist spirit that now sits in the church as a substitute for Him.

  Rick Joyner

  Powerful, People, Profound

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• Do you know that every unbeliever is filled with a demon spirit?

  Benny Hinn

  Demon, Filled, Knows

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• Had the Holy Spirit not been with Jesus, He would have sinned

  Benny Hinn

  Jesus, Holy Spirit, Holy

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• The Spirit tells me - Fidel Castro will die - in the 90s. Oooh my! Some will try to kill him and they will not succeed. But there will come a change in his physical health, and he will not stay in power, and Cuba will be visited of God.

  Benny Hinn

  Trying, Cuba, Succeed

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