Spirit Quotes - Page 34

• Much of the hatred and fear of sexuality found in religions stems from the idea that sex is a thing of the body and that the body must be denied so that the spirit may be elevated. In Buddhism there is no notion that the body is made of inferior matter while the spirit flies free within.

  Brad Warner

  Sex, Buddhism, Ideas

  Brad Warner (2010). “Sex, Sin, and Zen: Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything in Between”, p.17, New World Library

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• Zen professes itself to be the spirit of Buddhism, but in fact it is the spirit of all religions and philosophies.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Philosophy, Buddhism, Facts

  D.T. Suzuki (2007). “An Introduction to Zen Buddhism”, p.33, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The Great Way has no gate. Clear water has no taste. The tongue has no bone. In complete stillness, a stone girl is dancing.

  Seungsahn

  Girl, Dancing, Water

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• History doesn't mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man.

  Henry Ford

  War, Mean, Men

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• Truth is a shining goddess, always veiled, always distant, never wholly approachable, but worthy of all the devotion of which the human spirit is capable.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Learning, Shining

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Fact and Fiction”, p.153, Routledge

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• There is only one way to be prepared for death: to be sated. In the soul, in the heart, in the spirit, in the flesh. To the brim.

  Henry de Montherlant

  Inspiring, Heart, Soul

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• Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the spirit of chemistry.... if mathematical analysis should ever hold a prominent place in chemistry -- an aberration which is happily almost impossible -- it would occasion a rapid and widespread degeneration of that science.

  Auguste Comte

  Analysis, Aberration, Impossible

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• It is by the Holy Spirit that we love those who are united to us in Christ. The more plentifully we have received of the Spirit of Christ, the more perfectly we are able to love them: and the more we love them the more we receive the Spirit. It is clear, however, that since we love them by the Spirit Who is given to us by Jesus, it is Jesus Himself Who loves them in us.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Jesus, Able

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.187, Shambhala Publications

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• The Holy Spirit is the most perfect gift of the Father to men, and yet He is the one gift which the Father gives most easily.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Father, Men

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.189, Shambhala Publications

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• It is not merely our own desire but the desire of Christ in His Spirit that drives us to grow in love. Those who seldom or never feel in their hearts the desire for the love of God and other men, and who do not thirst for the pure waters of desire which are poured out in us by the strong, living God, are usually those who have drunk from other rivers or have dug for themselves broken cisterns.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Strong, Heart

  Thomas Merton (2002). “No Man Is an Island”, p.206, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is by desiring to grow in love that we receive the Holy Spirit, and the thirst for more charity is the effect of this more abundant reception.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Charity, Holy

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.190, Shambhala Publications

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• The true contemplative is one who has discovered the art of finding leisure even in the midst of his work, by working with such a spirit of detachment and recollection that even his work is a prayer

  Thomas Merton

  Art, Prayer, Leisure

  Thomas Merton, (2013). “Thomas Merton - Spiritual Direction and Meditation”, p.51, Read Books Ltd

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• Education was not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It was an initiation into the life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.

  Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

  Life, Education, Truth

  "The Evolution of India".

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• Wherever love and compassion are active in life, we can perceive the magic breath of the spirit blowing through the sense world.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Compassion, Magic, World

  Rudolf Steiner (1998). “Love & Its Meaning in the World”, p.235, SteinerBooks

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• I believe that drudgery and clock-watching are a terrible betrayal of that universal, inborn entrepreneurial spirit.

  Richard Branson

  Betrayal, Believe, Clock

  Richard Branson (2010). “Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur”, Virgin

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• We are trying to solve the problem of haze in the spirit of good neighbourliness with Malaysia but are also hoping that other ASEAN member countries are taking notice and willing to lend a helping hand.

  Marty Natalegawa

  Country, Hands, Trying

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• The spirit of Christmas is - and hopefully always will be - about goodwill and generosity to others and peace on earth.

  Nick Rahall

  Generosity, Earth, Goodwill

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• If you look at the fact that the best chance we have for a good economy is the private sector. The government cannot create jobs. If the government could create jobs, then Communism would have worked. But didn't work. So what we have to do is allow the private sector and the entrepreneurial spirit to lead us back to a job-filled recovery.

  Tim Scott

  Jobs, Recovery, Government

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• When I write I can shake off all my cares. My sorrow disappears, my spirits are revived.

  Anne Frank

  Writing, Sorrow, Care

  Anne Frank (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.132, Hamilton Books

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• If we are not inwardly wrought upon, and changed by the powerful operations of the Holy Spirit, and our moral actions proceed from a principle of a new nature, however we may call ourselves Christians, we shall be found naked at the great day.

  George Whitefield

  Christian, Powerful, Great Day

  George Whitefield (1828). “Sermons on important subjects ... With a memoir of the Author by S. Drew; and a dissertation on his character, preaching, etc., by Joseph [or rather Josiah] Smith”, p.550

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• If revival is being withheld from us it is because some idol remains still enthroned; because we still insist in placing our reliance in human schemes; because we still refuse to face the unchangeable truth that It is not by might, but by My Spirit.

  Jonathan Goforth

  Religious, Truth, Idols

  Jonathan Goforth (0101). “"By my Spirit"”, p.114, Solid Christian Books

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• Who am I that I should urge these missionaries to confess their sins in public, when, for all I know, they may be living nearer to God than I am? The Spirit of God does not need me to act as His detective.

  Jonathan Goforth

  Doe, Needs, May

  Jonathan Goforth (0101). “"By my Spirit"”, p.8, Solid Christian Books

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• It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege. Anxiety, sickness, suffering, or danger, now and then, with a foregoing of the common conveniences and charities of this life, may make us pause, and cause the spirit to waver, and the soul to sink; but let this only be for a moment. All these are nothing when compared with the glory which shall be revealed in and for us. I never made a sacrifice.

  David Livingstone

  Sacrifice, Anxiety, Soul

  David Livingstone (1858). “Cambridge Lectures: Together with a Prefatory Letter by Sedgwick”, p.23

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• The purest joy in the world is joy in Christ Jesus.  When the Spirit is poured down, his people get very near and clear views of the Lord Jesus.  They eat his flesh and drink his blood.  They come to a personal cleaving to the Lord.  They taste that the Lord is gracious.  His blood and righteousness appear infinitely perfect, full and free to their soul.  They sit under his shadow with great delight. . . . They lean on the Beloved.  They find infinite strength in him for the use of their soul — grace for grace — all they can need in any hour of trial and suffering to the very end.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Jesus, Views, Blood

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• Use your health while you have it, my dear friend and brother. Do not cast away peculiar opportunities that may never come again. You know not when your last Sabbath with your people may come. Speak for eternity. Above all things, cultivate your own spirit. A word spoken by you when your conscience is clear, and your heart full of God's Spirit, is worth ten thousand words spoken in unbelief and sin.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Brother, Heart, Opportunity

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Andrew Alexander Bonar (1866). “The life and remains, letters, lectures, and poems of [the Rev] Robert Murray McCheyne”, p.86

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