Spirit Quotes - Page 38

• Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Religious, Names, Symbolic Meaning

  Charles Alexander Eastman, Michael Oren Fitzgerald (2007). “The Essential Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa): Light on the Indian World”, p.14, World Wisdom, Inc

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• I had always been a free spirit, and always gotten what I wanted.

  Rick James

  Free Spirit, Wanted

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you let people break your spirit and detour you from your path, then you have not been true to yourself or those you're here to touch, those who believe in you.

  Allison DuBois

  Believe, People, Detours

  Allison DuBois (2008). “Secrets of the Monarch: What the Dead Can Teach Us About Living a Better Life”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't organize in the spirit of antagonism; that should be beneath your consideration.

  Mark Hanna

  Consideration, Should, Antagonism

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• We live in a world of transgressions and selfishness, and no pictures that represent us otherwise can be true; though happily for human nature, gleamings of that pure spirit in whose likeness man has been fashioned, are to be seen, relieving its deformities, and mitigating, if not excusing its crimes.

  James F. Cooper

  Men, Selfishness, World

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• It is already becoming clear that a chapter which had a Western beginning will have to have an Indian ending if it is not to end in self-destruction of the human race. At this supremely dangerous moment in human history , the only way of salvation is the ancient Hindu way. Here we have the attitude and spirit that can make it possible for the human race to grow together in to a single family.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Attitude, Race, Self

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• The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.

  Gabriel Marcel

  Philosophy, Taken, Battle

  Gabriel Marcel (1952). “Men against humanity”

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• The true task of spiritual life is not found in faraway places or unusual states of consciousness. It is here in the present. It asks of us a welcoming spirit to greet all that life presents to us with a wise, respectful, and kindly heart. We can bow to both beauty and suffering, to our entanglements and confusion, to our fears and to the injustices of the world. Honoring the truth in this way is the path to freedom.

  Jack Canfield

  Wise, Spiritual, Heart

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• It's not a great song unless it makes your DNA remember Eden and your spirit long for Home.

  Mark Lowry

  Song, Home, Dna

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• You are God in a physical body. You are Spirit in the flesh. You are Eternal Life expressing Itself as You. You are a cosmic being. You are all power. You are all wisdom. You are all intelligence. You are perfection. You are magnificence. You are the creator, and you are creating the creation of You on this planet

  Rhonda Byrne

  Creating, Perfection, Body

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Secret”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

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• It's better to make a mistake with the full force of your being than to timidly avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit. Responsibility means recognizing both pleasure and price, action and consequence, then making a choice.

  Dan Millman

  Motivational, Mistake, Mean

  Dan Millman (2009). “Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.54, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Today on planet Earth, may you experience the wonder and beauty of yourself as Abba’s Child and temple of the Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ

  Brennan Manning

  Jesus, Children, Today

  Brennan Manning (2015). “Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging”, p.17, NavPress

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• May all your expectations be frustrated, may all your plans be thwarted, may all your desires be withered into nothingness, that you may experience the powerlessness and poverty of a child and sing and dance in the love of God who is the Father, Son and Spirit.

  Brennan Manning

  Children, Father, Son

  Brennan Manning (2015). “Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging”, p.17, NavPress

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• To deny this is to deny our own heritage, our own spirit, and our own souls.

  John Denver

  Soul, Heritage, Deny

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• French is not a language that lends itself naturally to the opaque and ponderous idiom of nature-philosophy, and Teilhard has according resorted to the use of that tipsy, euphoristic prose-poetry which is one of the more tiresome manifestations of the French spirit.

  Peter Medawar

  Philosophy, Prose Poetry, Use

  Peter Brian Medawar (1996). “The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science”, p.2, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Youth must refrain from ungrateful questioning of governmental mandates. Instead they must dedicate themselves to study, work and military service. The very spirit of rebellion is reprehensible.

  Che Guevara

  Military, Ungrateful, Youth

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• I knew that the moment the great governing spirit strikes the blow to divide all humanity into just two opposing factions, I would be on the side of the common people.

  Che Guevara

  Blow, Two, People

  "Becoming Che: Guevara's Second and Final Trip through Latin America". Book by Carlos "Calica" Ferrer, translated by Sarah L. Smith, p. 170, 2006.

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• If we agree in love, there is no disagreement that can do us any injury,
  but if we do not, no other agreement can do us any good.
  Let us endeavor to keep the unity of the spirit in the bonds of peace.

  Hosea Ballou

  Agreement, Unity, Injury

  Hosea Ballou (1828). “A Treatise on Atonement: In which the Finite Nature of Sin is Argued, Its Cause and Consequences as Such; the Necessity and Nature of Atonement; And, Its Glorious Consequences, in the Final Reconciliation of All Men to Holiness and Happiness”, p.236

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• Love God, and do as you like, say the Free Spirits. Yes; but as long as you like anything contrary to God's will, you do not love Him.

  Meister Eckhart

  Long, Free Spirit, God Love

  "Light, Life, and Love: Selections from the German Mystics of the Middle Ages". Book by William Ralph Inge, 1904.

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• Danger was the grindstone on which the swordsman whetted his spirit. Enemies were teachers in disguise.

  Eiji Yoshikawa

  Teacher, Enemy, Danger

  Eiji Yoshikawa, Charles S. Terry (1989). “Way of Life and Death”, Pocket

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• I heard a loud noise in the heavens, and the Spirit instantly appeared to me and said the Serpent was loosened, and Christ had laid down the yoke he had borne for the sins of men, and that I should take it on and fight against the Serpent, for the time was fast approaching when the first should be last and the last should be first.

  Nat Turner

  God, Christian, Jesus

  Nat Turner (2011). “The Confessions of Nat Turner, the Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Virginia”, p.21, Univ of North Carolina Press

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• History is various and sinuous and no essential part of the human spirit is ever wholly absent from it.

  Benedetto Croce

  Essentials, Humans, Absent

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• The way I understand gifts is that the giver must make a sacrifice, create an uneven exchange, bring himself closer to the recipient, create change and do it all with the right spirit.

  Seth Godin

  Sacrifice, Way, Giver

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• The truth is that Christian theology, like every other theology, is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is also opposed to all other attempts at rational thinking.

  H. L. Mencken

  Christian, Thinking, Truth Is

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• All melodious poets shall be hoarse as street ballads, when once the penetrating keynote of nature and spirit is sounded-the earth-beat, sea-beat, heart-beat, which make the tune to which the sun rolls, and the globule of blood and the sap of the trees.

  Charles Ives

  Heart, Blood, Sea

  Charles Ives (2004). “Essays Before a Sonata”, p.41, 1st World Publishing

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