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Spirit Quotes


"Do you know that every unbeliever is filled with a demon spirit?"


"I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief."


"We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained."


"Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!"


"Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free."


"All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit."


"I believe the divine is part of the world, not in a pantheistic way but by way of the movement of the Spirit."


"I felt it was part of the spirit of the whole program to do more than simply make an object."


"Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it."


"A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world."


"Mutual forbearance and reciprocal concessions: thro' their agency the Union was established - the patriotic spirit from which they emanated will forever sustain it."


"Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were really there and not a spirit just floating around."


"There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness."


"Any movie that has that spirit and says things can be changed is worth making."


"It was a place that is trying to destroy the individual by every means possible; trying to break his spirit, so that he accepts that he is No. 6 and will live there happily as No. 6 for ever after. And this is the one rebel that they can't break."


"The spirit can assert itself only through the medium of clear form."


"I don't know whether it ever comes back to the same thing; it does return to the spirit of a previous period in some way, but it's different, it's new."


"Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal."


"The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers for ever!"


"The presence of the Holy Spirit is the keystone of all our hopes."


"All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit."


"To me, Arnold was a pioneer in the spirit of Thomas Edison or Benjamin Franklin, while Tiger is a pioneer in the spirit of Bill Gates."


"It is an understanding with the Great Spirit or Creator that we will follow these ways."


"I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am."


"You are a dance of a divine spirit, you just have to realize it."


"A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit."


"The Spirit communicating to your spirit is the most effective and fundamental of communications. Write it down. As you write down impressions of the Spirit, more are given."


"All TV can do is capture the spirit of a book because the medium is so utterly different. But I'm very grateful for the readers that Masterpiece Theatre has undoubtedly brought me."


"It hurts the spirit, somehow, to read the word environments, when the plural means that there are so many alternatives there to be sorted through, as in a market, and voted on."


"There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free."


"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."


"It's important, that spirit of youth, and when you're 16 that can get you kickstarted."
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