Spirit Quotes - Page 7

• The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Body, Touched, Dies

  Ramana (Maharshi) (1959). “Collected Works”

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• ...service can have no meaning unless one takes pleasure in it. When it is done for show or for fear of public opinion, it stunts the man and crushes his spirit. Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Crush, Men, Joy

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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• The heart is naturally hard, and grows harder by custom in sin, especially by long abuse of mercy, neglect of the means of grace, and resisteing the spirit of grace.

  Richard Baxter

  Religious, Heart, Mean

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• Only through the development of mutual respect, and in a spirit of truth, can friendship come about. By these means it is possible to move human minds, but never by force.

  Dalai Lama

  Moving, Mean, Mind

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• The more you think of yourself as shining immortal spirit, the more eager you will be to be absolutely free of matter, body, and senses. This is the intense desire to be free.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Thinking, Shining, Desire

  Swami Vivekananda, Ann Myren (1993). “Living at the Source: Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda”, Shambhala Publications

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• Certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Scary, Body

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Atheism'

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• The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are.

  Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

  Believe, Want, Worst

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• The spirit of wrath - not the words - is the sin; and the spirit of wrath is cursing. We begin to swear before we can talk.

  Mark Twain

  Wrath, Sin, Swear

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.382, Courier Corporation

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• Lightning is like an elementary spirit, eccentric or rational, clever or silly, passing from one extreme to the other.

  Camille Flammarion

  Clever, Silly, Lightning

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• The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Excess, Obsession, Moderation

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• Excitement is the drunkenness of the spirits. Only calm waters reflect heaven in their bosom.

  Margaret of Valois

  Water, Heaven, Calm

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• The worlds represent increasing phases of densification, the involuting descent of spirit into matter, where the way becomes harder and longer.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Unity, World, Phases

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• There is really no difference between matter, mind and Spirit. They are only different phases of experiencing the One.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Differences, Unity, Mind

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2234, Manonmani Publishers

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• The substance, the essence, the Spirit is freedom.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Essence, Substance, Spirituality

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• What [others] most need is to see in you a reflection of what God is like and of the transforming power of the Gospel. Your life can create hunger and thirst for God in others' lives and can be a powerful instrument in the hand of the Holy Spirit to draw their hearts to Christ.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Powerful, Heart, Reflection

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss (2008). “Holiness: The Heart God Purifies”, p.57, Moody Publishers

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• The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Peace, Military

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.47

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• Things have changed. The suburbs are developed, but other parts, like where we recorded Spirit and Danse Manatee are still woodland and farmland.

  Avey Tare

  Changed, Things Have Changed

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• The most abundant, least used, and most abused resource in the world is human spirit and ingenuity.

  Dee Hock

  Inspiration, World, Resources

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• The body, the mind, and the spirit don't form a pyramid, they form a circle. Each of them runs into the other two. The body isn't below the mind and the spirit; from the point of view it's between them. if you reside too much in the mind, then you get too abstract and cut off from the world. You long for the spiritual life, but you can't get to it, and you fall into despair. The exercise of the senses frees you from abstraction and opens the way to transcendence.

  Jane Smiley

  Running, Spiritual, Fall

  Jane Smiley (2017). “Moo”, p.216, Pan Macmillan

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• When called to the Council of the Twelve, October 4, 1963, he said in the Salt Lake Tabernacle: I think of a little sister, a French-Canadian sister, whose life was changed by the missionaries as her spirit was touched. As she said good-by to me and my wife in Quebec, she said, "President Monson, I may never see the Prophet. I may never hear the Prophet. But President, far better, now that I am a member of this Church, I can obey the Prophet."

  Thomas S. Monson

  Sister, Thinking, Lakes

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• If we habitually focus on how to improve things that are already great, can you see how this spirit can transform ourselves, our organizations, families and communities?

  Tony Robbins

  Change, Organization, Focus

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• Baptism with water is the sign and seal of baptism with the Spirit, as much as it is of the forgiveness of sins. Water-baptism is the initiatory Christian rite, because Spirit-baptism is the initiatory Christian experience.

  John Stott

  Christian, Water, Baptism

  John Stott (2013). “Baptism and Fullness: The Work of the Holy Spirit Today”, p.57, InterVarsity Press

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• What they're not doing is marketing the Dead Kennedys in the spirit of what the band stood for.

  Jello Biafra

  Marketing, Band

  Interview with Scott Thill, www.popmatters.com. January 24, 2001.

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