I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
~By Alexander Pope ~
As far as spiritual influences in Christian music, I would say Crystal Lewis - a lot of her songs especially. The ministry she has through her songs has really hit me.
~By Stacie Orrico ~
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?
~By Anish Kapoor ~
We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on which it rested hallowed; and until, by our own lives, and by converse with the thoughts they have bequeathed us, we feel that union and relationship of the spirit which we seek.
~By Jones Very ~
But now I'm getting that spiritual motivation to visit Africa.
~By Dennis Brown ~
In course of time, religion came with its rites invoking the aid of good spirits which were even more powerful than the bad spirits, and thus for the time being tempered the agony of fears.
~By Paul Harris ~
I was part of it, and I am still part of it today in terms of what it means to a whole new generation of people who are interested in the enduring energy, achievements, spirit and creativity that exemplified our era.
~By David Amram ~
Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.
~By Robert MacNeil ~
I am here before you tonight to dedicate this administration to bringing a new renaissance of neighborhood life and community spirit, a renewal of confidence in the future of our city and a revival of opportunity for all Chicago.
~By Jane Byrne ~
Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.
~By Vincent McNabb ~
Do not try to approach God with your thinking mind. It may only stimulate your intellectual ideas, activities, and beliefs. Try to approach God with your crying heart. It will awaken your soulful, spiritual consciousness.
~By Sri Chinmoy ~
Just as a son, to be a son of man, must be of the same nature and spirit of his father; so with the sons of God, and so it will be with all who are born of the spirit of God.
~By Elias Hicks ~
Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.
~By May Sarton ~
It is a thoroughly anti-christian doctrine that the Spirit of God, and therefore the life and governing power of the Church, resides in the ministry, to the exclusion of the people.
~By Charles Hodge ~
It's more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.
~By Pat Metheny ~
The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time.
~By Stella Adler ~
As I say, the Animals had a particular concept of themselves as a band. There was an anarchic spirit in it, which was being flattened by commercial designs, attitudes, and needs.
~By Alan Price ~
Love is not a union merely between two creatures, it is a union between two spirits.
~By Frederick William Robertson ~
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.
~By Cesare Pavese ~
For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.
~By Albert Claude ~
The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.
~By Paul Twitchell ~
The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with something quite geometric or the spirit that I was interested in, indulging in, was gone.
~By Robert Rauschenberg ~
Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.
~By John Ruskin ~
I'm touched by the idea that when we do things that are useful and helpful - collecting these shards of spirituality - that we may be helping to bring about a healing.
~By Leonard Nimoy ~
I've really been sick with this cold, but I think I might have kept the columns going anyhow except I was just so low in spirit, I didn't have the will to struggle against them when my deadline was so close and I felt so lousy.
~By Ernie Pyle ~
I was born with a serious spiritual consciousness and for many years studied different paths.
~By Steven Seagal ~
Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
The ego constantly competes with the spirit for control over your inner voice.
~By Darren L. Johnson ~
Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.
~By Kirstie Alley ~
The children, each of those kids is in touch with nature and traditional aboriginal culture so a very important part of getting performances from them was just letting them be and trying to capture the unique spirituality that was in each of them.
~By Phillip Noyce ~
Today we are searching for things in nature that are hidden behind the veil of appearance... We look for and paint this inner, spiritual side of nature.
~By Franz Marc ~
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his "divine service."
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
So during those first moments of the day, which are yours and yours alone, you can circumvent these boundaries and concentrate fully on spiritual matters. And this gives you the opportunity to plan the time management of the entire day.
~By Menachem Mendel Schneerson ~
But the dream is never forgotten, only put aside and never out of reach: Where once the dream connected boys with the world of men, now it reconnects men with the spirit of boys.
~By John Thorn ~
The new spirituality will step away from dogma, will step away from 'We're right and you're wrong.'
~By Neale Donald Walsch ~
There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.
~By Emily Carr ~
I felt it was part of the spirit of the whole program to do more than simply make an object.
~By Martin Puryear ~
Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.
~By Caspar David Friedrich ~
I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate.
~By Sam Ervin ~
The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them.
~By Roland Allen ~
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith; they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat.
~By Martha Gellhorn ~
Homelessness is the actor's fate; physical incapacity to attain what is most required and desired by such a spirit as I am a slave to.
~By Edwin Booth ~
Angels are spirits, flames of fire; they are higher than man, they have wider connections.
~By Matthew Simpson ~
I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family.
~By Danny Glover ~
In my opinion it's not about gay or straight or bi, we're attracted to spirits, whatever body they're in. There are other reasons too, but that's how I see it.
~By Dana Plato ~
Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.
~By Mark Rothko ~
It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.
~By George Herbert ~
The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
~By Saint Aurelius Augustine ~
No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.
~By Grover Cleveland ~
Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally.
~By Christian Lous Lange ~
Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.
~By Rita Dove ~
Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.
~By Dan Brown ~
With the spirit of my administration, New York City is poised for dramatic change. The era of fear has had a long enough reign.
~By Rudy Giuliani ~
All of my work is based on nature. I grew up in a rural environment and living in the Bay Area allows for immediate access to wonderful natural environs. Basically nature is my Genus Loci, or the place where my spirit resides.
~By Judith Anderson ~
Interethnic and spiritual accord is our strategic resource, the basis for progress of our society and state.
~By Nursultan Nazarbayev ~
Spiritual beings, either from the beginning or soon thereafter, become what they are to be for ever and ever.
~By Giovanni Pico della Mirandola ~
Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through.
~By Germaine Greer ~
The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire.
~By David Brainerd ~
And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.
~By Black Elk ~
Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.
~By Gary Oldman ~
The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero.
~By Maxwell Anderson ~
To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.
~By Stephen Hawking ~
But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
~By Albert Pike ~
It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.
~By John Ruskin ~
Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
~By John Dryden ~
The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.
~By Swami Sivananda ~
Times have changed since George Herbert... but the principle and spirit in which he ministered as a priest remains an inspiration and model for all priests.
~By Arthur Middleton ~
The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
~By Ramana Maharshi ~
I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.
~By Diane Lane ~
Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.
~By Johann G. Hamann ~
If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the spirit.
~By Oprah Winfrey ~
Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures.
~By Robertson Davies ~
The stock market can be down, but the stock market is not an indication of where people's spirits and enthusiam are, and where their intellectual energy is.
~By James Daly ~
A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning.
~By Kim Jong Il ~
The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life.
~By Georg Simmel ~
I had to go. A spirit in my feet said 'Go,' and I went.
~By Mathew Brady ~
The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that.
~By John Guare ~
My hates have always occupied my mind much more actively and have given greater spiritual satisfactions than my friendships.
~By Westbrook Pegler ~
Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.
~By John Denham ~
We're going to hear a lot of spirited discussion about the President's plan in the next few days and weeks and that's fine as long as everyone comes ready to talk and not just snipe, complain and argue.
~By George Allen ~
All Church power arises from the indwelling of the Spirit; therefore those in whom the Spirit dwells are the seat of Church power. But the Spirit dwells in the whole Church, and therefore the whole Church is the seat of Church power.
~By Charles Hodge ~
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
~By Albert Einstein ~
It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft ~
The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue.
~By George A. Smith ~
Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche.
~By George Crumb ~
And hence he must be invisible; for a spirit cannot be seen by the eye of man: nor is there any thing in this principle contradictory to reason or experience.
~By Adam Clarke ~
Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.
~By Joe Biden ~
You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return.
~By Arthur Miller ~
Most of all, we should remember all of us are capable of individually helping advance the spirit of equality for all.
~By Mike Rogers ~
God is a spirit. A spirit is as much matter as oxygen or hydrogen.
~By Orson Pratt ~
God gave you not a spirit of faithlessness, not a spirit of despair.
~By Joseph Barber Lightfoot ~
It's up to us, the people, to break immoral laws, and resist. As soon as the leaders of a country lie to you, they have no authority over you. These maniacs have no authority over us. And they might be able to put our bodies in prison, but they can't put our spirits in prison.
~By Cindy Sheehan ~
Australia and Canada were settled by adventurers, they had to break new ground. I think that is indelibly etched on our cultural spirit.
~By Tom Cochrane ~
Hath the spirit of all beauty Kissed you in the path of duty?
~By Anna Katharine Green ~
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
~By George S. Patton ~
Eighteen years ago, the Holy Spirit led me to establish a church in the heart of Times Square.
~By David Wilkerson ~
Some missionaries are giants in the Spirit and pygmies in skills in the Spirit. Work hard to develop a balance. Your leaders, and you, should teach the skills to each other.
~By Richard G. Scott ~
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