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• When the great promise of the Spirit was fulfilled on the day of Pentecost, it was fulfilled not in reference to the apostles only.

  Charles Hodge

  Promise, Pentecost, Fulfilled

  Charles Hodge (1855). “What is Presbyterianism?: An Address Delivered Before the Presbyterian Historical Society at Their Anniversary Meeting in Philadelphia, on Tuesday Evening, May 1, 1855”, p.27

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• Local assemblies of the people constitute the strength of free nations. Municipal institutions are to liberty what primary schools are to science: they bring it within the people's reach, and teach them how to use and enjoy it. A nation may establish a system of free government, but without the spirit of municipal institutions it cannot have the spirit of liberty.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  School, Government, People

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1851). “The Republic of the United States of America: And Its Political Institutions, Reviewed and Examined”, p.62

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• The greatest asset of any nation is the spirit of its people, and the greatest danger that can menace any nation is the breakdown of that spirit-the will to win and the courage to work.

  George B. Cortelyou

  Winning, People, Danger

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• Caution and conservatism are expected of old age; but when the young men of a nation are possessed of such a spirit, when they are afraid of the noise and strife caused by the applications of the truth, heaven save the land! Its funeral bell has already rung.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Land, Heaven

  Henry Ward Beecher, Augusta Moore (1859). “Notes from Plymouth Pulpit: A Collection of Memorable Passages from the Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, with a Sketch of Mr. Beecher and the Lecture Room”, p.57

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• The same disappointments in life will chasten and refine one man's spirit, embitter another's.

  William Matthews

  Disappointment, Failure, One Man

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• Green is the fresh emblem of well founded hopes. In blue the spirit can wander, but in green it can rest.

  Mary Webb

  Blue, Color, May

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• All furnished, all in arms;
  All plum'd like estridges that with the wind
  Bated like eagles having lately bathed;
  Glittering in golden coats like images;
  As full of spirit as the month of May
  And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer;
  Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls.

  William Shakespeare

  Eagles, Wind, Plums

  William Shakespeare (1806). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.298

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• The next sentence is one of the most important spiritual truths you will ever learn: God develops the fruit of the Spirit in your life by allowing you to experience circumstances in which you're tempted to express the exact opposite quality. Character development always involves a choice, and temptation provides that opportunity.

  Rick Warren

  Spiritual, Character, Opportunity

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• Over and over, when I ask God why all of these injustices are allowed to exist in the world, I can feel the Spirit whisper to me, You tell me why we allow this to happen. You are my body, my hands, my feet.

  Shane Claiborne

  Hands, Feet, World

  Shane Claiborne (2006). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical”, p.65, Harper Collins

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• Rest you well, beloved Jesus,
  Caesar’s Lord and Israel’s King,
  In the brooding of the Spirit,
  in the darkness of the spring

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Kings, Spring

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• Every single decision you make as a leader has an effect on the spirit of those you lead.

  Bill Hybels

  Decisions You Make, Leader, Effects

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• Authentic Christians are persons who stand apart from others. Their character seems deeper, their ideas fresher, their spirit softer, their courage greater, their leadership stronger, their concerns wider, their compassion more genuine and their convictions more concrete.

  Bill Hybels

  Christian, Character, Compassion

  "Too Busy Not to Pray". Book by Bill Hybels, 1994.

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• The product of paper and printed ink, that we commonly call the book, is one of the great visible mediators between spirit and time, and, reflecting zeitgeist, lasts as long as ore and stone.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Book, Long, Ink

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• Finished things cease to be a shelter for the spirit; but work in progress is a delight.

  Max Frisch

  Progress, Delight, Shelter

  Max Frisch (1977). “Sketchbook 1946-1949”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Ive never been a big believer in ghosts or the spirit world, and for me, that was part of the point of the movie, ... What the Ghostbusters represented was the triumph of human courage and human ingenuity. People create their own monsters. Our fears come from within us, not outside.

  Harold Ramis

  People, Monsters, Triumph

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• There is no week, nor day, nor hour, when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their supreme confidence in themselves, and lose their roughness and spirit of defiance. Tyranny may always enter—there is no charm or bar against it.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, People, Bars

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• The most all penetrating spirit before which will open the possibility of tilting not tables, but planets, is the spirit of free human inquiry. Believe only in that.

  Dmitri Mendeleev

  Believe, Inquiry, Tables

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• Come to the Word with a spirit of longing with devotion and humble expectation. Be determined to know God.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Humble, Expectations, Determined

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• The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.

  Alan K. Simpson

  Training, Mind, Triviality

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• Legalized abortion is a national holocaust; an affront to our national character; a contradiction of established principles subscribed to from the beginning of Western Civilization; an insult to the principles of our Declaration of Independence; a bane of our national spirit; and a stench in the nostrils of Almighty God.

  Chuck Baldwin

  Character, Civilization, Abortion

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• I wish to put together an imaginary nation. It is my belief that no other nation is possible, or rather, I believe that authors who count take responsibility for a map which is addressed to travellers of the earth, the world, and the spirit. Each issue is composed as a map of this land and this glory, images of our cities and of our politics must join our poetry. I want a nation in which discourse is active and scholarship is understood as it should be, the mode of our understanding and the ground of our derivations.
  -Robin Blaser (June 3, 1967)

  Robin Blaser

  Believe, Responsibility, Issues

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• I want to burn with the spirit of the times. I want all servants of the stage to recognize their lofty destiny. I am disturbed at my comrades' failure to rise above narrow caste interests which are alien to the interests of society at large. Yes, the theatre can play an enormous part in the transformation of the whole of existence.

  Vsevolod Meyerhold

  Destiny, Play, Theatre

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• Of the creative spirits that flourished in Concord, Massachusetts, it might be said that Hawthorne loved men but felt estranged from them, Emerson loved ideas even more than men, and Thoreau loved himself.

  Leon Edel

  Men, Ideas, Creative

  Leon Edel (1970). “Henry D. Thoreau”

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• Man is/the symbol-using (symbol making, symbol-misusing) animal/inventor of the negative (or moralized by the negative)/separated from his natural condition by instruments of his own making/goaded by the spirit of hierarchy (or moved by the sense of order)/and rotten with perfection.

  Kenneth Burke

  Animal, Men, Order

  Kenneth Burke (1973). “Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature and Method”, p.16, Univ of California Press

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• Moreover, I want us to urge political and religious leaders, and all peoples of the world, to move forward in a conciliatory spirit, to deal with religious matters in a responsible and balanced way, and to focus on their common grounds.

  Alcee Hastings

  Religious, Moving, Political

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