Spirit Quotes - Page 34

• The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to control the aggressive dynamism of nationalism.

  Christopher Dawson

  Strong, League, Enlightenment

  Christopher Dawson (2010). “The Crisis of Western Education (The Works of Christopher Dawson)”, p.94, CUA Press

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• In fact it is remarkable that this theory has had progressively greater influence on the spirit of researchers, following a series of discoveries in different scholarly disciplines. The convergence in the results of these independent studies—which was neither planned nor sought—constitutes in itself a significant argument in favor of the theory.

  Pope John Paul I

  Independent, Discovery, Discipline

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• By divine mandate the interpreter and guardian of the Scriptures, and the depository of Sacred Tradition living within her, the Church alone is the entrance to salvation: She alone, by herself, and under the protection and guidance of the Holy Spirit, is the source of truth.

  Pope Pius XII

  Church, Sacred, Scripture

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• A common allegiance to form of expression that is identified with no single national unit is likely to prove one of the most potent symbols of the freedom of the human spirit that the world has yet known.

  Edward Sapir

  Expression, World, Common

  Edward Sapir, Pierre Swiggers (2008). “General Linguistics”, p.282, Walter de Gruyter

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• Both French and Latin are involved with nationalistic and religious implications which could not be entirely shaken off, and so, while they seemed for a long time to have solved the international language problem up to a certain point, they did not really do so in spirit.

  Edward Sapir

  Religious, Latin, Long

  Edward Sapir, Pierre Swiggers (2008). “General Linguistics”, p.277, Walter de Gruyter

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• Companies are communities. Theres a spirit of working together. Communities are not a place where a few people allow themselves to be singled out as solely responsible for success.

  Henry Mintzberg

  People, Community, Working Together

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• Too many vacations that last too long, too many movies, too much TV, too much video game playing - too much undisciplined leisure time in which a person continually takes the course of least resistance gradually wastes a life. It ensures that a person's capacities stay dormant, that talents remain undeveloped, that the mind and spirit become lethargic and that the heart remains unfulfilled.

  Stephen Covey

  Happiness, Heart, Vacation

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• With strength to lift mountains and spirit to take on the World

  Xiang Yu

  Chinese, Mountain, World

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• Excellence is not an accomplishment. It is a spirit, a never-ending process.

  Lawrence M. Miller

  Leadership, Accomplishment, Excellence

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• Thoughts mold your features. Thoughts lift your soul heavenward or drag you toward hell. … As nothing reveals character like the company we like and keep, so nothing foretells futurity like the thoughts over which we brood. … To have the approval of your conscience when you are alone with your thoughts is like being in the company of true and loving friends. To merit your own self-respect gives strength to character. Conscience is the link that binds your soul to the spirit of God.

  David O. McKay

  Character, Self, Giving

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• The Lord does not need your tithing, as far as He is concerned, but you need it for your growth, spiritually and temporally, that the windows of heaven may be opened and the Spirit of the living God given to you.

  Heber J. Grant

  Heaven, Growth, Doe

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• The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit.

  John D. MacDonald

  Philosophy, Touching, World

  John D MacDonald (2013). “Bright Orange for the Shroud: Introduction by Lee Child: Travis McGee”, p.5, Random House

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• Criticism at its best is re-creative, not spirit-killing.

  Camille Paglia

  Creative, Criticism, Killing

  Camille Paglia (2005). “Break, blow, burn”, Pantheon

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• An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime.

  Edgar Degas

  Artist, Criminals, Crime

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• Then I repeated these words to my spirits: 'Leave me be; give me peace; and let me do the work of my life. I will never forget you.' Something about that incantation was particularly appealing to me. 'I will never forget you'-- as though one had to address the pride of the spirits, as though one wanted them to feel good about being exorcised.

  Andrew Solomon

  Pride, Giving, Feel Good

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• Some tell me Preach the pure gospel! This reminds me that the Communist secret police also told me to preach Christ, but not to mention communism. Is it really so, that those who are for what is called a pure gospel are inspired by the same spirit as those of the Communist secret police?

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Police, Secret, Inspired

  Richard Wurmbrand (2017). “Tortured for Christ: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.74, David C Cook

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• God knows instantly and effortlessly all matter and all matters, all mind and every mind, all spirit and all spirits, all being and every being, all creaturehood and all creatures, every plurality and all pluralities, all law and every law, all relations, all causes, all thoughts, all mysteries, all enigmas, all feeling, all desires, every unuttered secret, all thrones and dominions, all personalities, all things visible and invisible in heaven and in earth, motion, space, time, life, death, good, evil, heaven, and hell.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Law, Space, Evil

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.62, Fig

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• I say that a Christian congregation can survive and often appear to prosper in the community by the exercise of human talent and without any touch from the Holy Spirit! All that religious activity and the dear people will not know anything better until the great and terrible day when our self-employed talents are burned with fire and only that which was wrought by the Holy Ghost will stand forever!

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Religious, Exercise

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• We need to learn that truth consists not in correct doctrine, but in correct doctrine plus the inward enlightenment of the Holy Spirit.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Enlightenment, Doctrine, Needs

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• Any spirit that permits compromise with the world is a false spirit. Any religious movement that imitates the world in any of its manifestations is false to the cross of Christ and on the side of the devil.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Religious, Religion, Devil

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• The Christian woman should remember that she cannot buy true attractiveness; that radiance which really shines forth in beauty is of the heart and spirit and not of the body.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Heart, Shining

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• We may as well face it: the whole level of spirituality among us is low. We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone (We) have imitated the world, sought popular favor, manufactured delights to substitute for the joy of the Lord and produced a cheap and synthetic power to substitute for the power of the Holy Ghost.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Joy, Faces, Gone

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• A little instruction in the elements of chartography—a little practice in the use of the compass and the spirit level, a topographical map of the town common, an excursion with a road map—would have given me a fat round earth in place of my paper ghost.

  Mary Antin

  Practice, Use, Elements

  Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.150, Courier Corporation

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• Is success just about winning? Acclaim? Trophies? Wealth? Our personal happiness or satisfaction? I have been blessed to experience some of these over the years, and I can answer without batting an eye: No. Accomplishments, applause, awards and fortune are rewards that often come as the result of hard work and a determined spirit, but there is something bigger. Something better. Something that will outlast the winningest season, the plushest corner office, the heftiest bonus and the loudest cheers. That something can only be found when we look beyond the final score.

  Tom Osborne

  Cheer, Blessed, Hard Work

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• Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!

  Mary Boykin Chesnut

  Men, Lazy Man, Laziness

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