Quotes about Spirit

This I have observed: There are no language barriers in the Church. There is a mighty power that transcends the power of messages conveyed by words alone, and this is the power of messages communicated by the Spirit to our hearts.

Only the holy spirit, the spirit of the lord, can transform us.

We take what we think are the tools of spiritual transformation into our own hands and try to sculpt ourselves into robust Christlike specimens. But spiritual transformation is primarily the work of the Holy Spirit. He is the Master Sculptor.

It is the mind that makes the body.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Then, lastly, there is another reason why the good are afflicted with temporal calamities—the reason which Job's case exemplifies: that the human spirit may be proved, and that it may be manifested with what fortitude of pious trust, and with how unmercenary a love, it cleaves to God.

And I knew not God to be a Spirit, not one who hath parts extended in length and breadth, or whose being was bulk; for every bulk is less in a part than in the whole: and if it be infinite, it must be less in such part as is defined by a certain space, than in its infinitude; and so is not wholly every where, as Spirit, as God. And what that should be in us, by which we were like to God, and might be rightly said to be after the image of God, I was altogether ignorant.

For the true God is not a soul, but the maker and author of the soul.

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep [spirit] so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

After you die, you wear what you are.

An argument may remove doubt, but only the Holy Spirit can convict of truth.

To see the universal and all-pervading Spirit of Truth face to face, one must be able to love the meanest of all creation as oneself.