Spirit Quotes
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When there is a spirit of controversy in the church or in the land, a revival is needful. The spirit of religion is not the spirit of controversy. There can be no prosperity in religion, where the spirit of controversy prevails.
Charles Grandison Finney
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I want before God that everything, every thought, attitude, action, motive, desire in my heart be pleasing to Him. I ask Him, 'Keep the spotlight of your Spirit on me so there would be nothing impure or unholy in my life.' That's been my prayer for 50 years.
Bill Bright
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The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.
Stephen Covey
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She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him.
Eudora Welty
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The church becomes irrelevant when it becomes purely a human creation. We are not all we were made to be when everything in our lives and churches can be explained apart from the work and presence of the Spirit of God.
Francis Chan
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The main thing is you have to be under the protection of spirituality, under the protection of morality, under the protection of divine laws. If you're not under that protection, you can get caught up into anything.
Nirmala Srivastava
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The spirit of those around you will stick to you like glue. Be careful of wrong associations and what you allow to cling to you. Not everyone who appears friendly is a friend.
Brian Houston
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Who rise from flesh to spirit know the fall: The word outleaps the world, and light is all.
Theodore Roethke
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On gardens: I think they're sanctuaries for the mind and spirit. ... It's easy to feel wonder-struck in a garden, especially if you cultivate delight.
Diane Ackerman
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Survival is not so much about the body, but rather it is about the triumph of the human spirit.
Danitra Vance
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We are shaped not only by our current geography but by our ancestral one as well. Americans, for instance, retain a frontier spirit even though the only frontier that remains is that vast open space between the SUV and strip mall. We are our past.
Eric Weiner
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A revival may be expected when Christians have a spirit of prayer for a revival. That is, when they pray as if their hearts were set upon it. When Christians have the spirit of prayer for a revival. When they go about groaning out their hearts desire. When they have real travail of soul.
Charles Grandison Finney
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And you know, these things don't last forever.' I know, Mandy. Nothing does.' That's the spirit.
Scott Westerfeld
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My affairs are in the keeping of Infinite Wisdom. I am guided by Divine Intelligence. The activity of Spirit inspires my mind and flows through my actions. Life lies open to me, rich, full and abundant.
Ernest Holmes
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Jesus was restrained by the Father to do only what the Father was doing, and You are to be restrained by the Spirit to do only what Jesus is doing!
Eric Ludy
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Know what you want to do - then do it. Make straight for your goal and go undefeated in spirit to the end.
Ernestine Schumann-Heink
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In the evening, when everything is tired and quiet, I sit with Walt Whitman by the rose beds and listen to what that lonely and beautiful spirit has to tell me of night, sleep, death, and the stars. This dusky, silent hour is his; and this is the time when I can best hear the beatings of that most tender and generous heart.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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It is necessary to be concerned about the importance of educating a really beautiful human spirit
Shinichi Suzuki
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The attention has to be on the Spirit. And that cannot be there unless and until something happens within.
Nirmala Srivastava
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How can you live without knowing what your spirit is doing and what your spirit is saying to you?
Caroline Myss