Spirit Quotes
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Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.
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The attention has to be on the Spirit. And that cannot be there unless and until something happens within.
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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.
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Vivacity is the health of the spirit.
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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.
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The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.
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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.
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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.
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One radical free spirit nonconformist is pretty much like another.
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It is necessary to be concerned about the importance of educating a really beautiful human spirit
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Spirit is like the wind, in that we can't see it but can see its effects, which are profound.
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No one who beats his wife or children, spreads slander in a congregation, or harbors perpetual unforgiveness in his or her heart is full of the Spirit, no matter how many supernatural gifts he or she claims to have.
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Unless I had the spirit of prayer, I could do nothing.
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She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him.
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And you know, these things don't last forever.' I know, Mandy. Nothing does.' That's the spirit.
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Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ''in spirit and in truth.'' Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.
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Survival is not so much about the body, but rather it is about the triumph of the human spirit.
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I'm not born here to have a personality. I'm here to have a spirit. Each of us is born with a purpose for being alive.
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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!
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How can you live without knowing what your spirit is doing and what your spirit is saying to you?
