Quotes about Spirit
God not only wants to break the outer man...He wants our spirit and our soul...our inner man and outer man to be separated from each other.
- Watchman Nee
We would all worship better, sing better, fellowship better, give better, evangelize better, share better, and behave much better if we were first humbling ourselves, confessing our sins, asking God's Spirit to fill us, and submitting ourselves to Him in prayer.
- Stephen Kendrick
In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.
- Deepak Chopra
If our life is not a course of humility, self-denial, renunciation of the world, poverty of spirit, and heavenly affection, we do not live the lives of Christians.
- William Law
Perhaps there cannot be a better way of judging of what manner of spirit we are of, than to see whether the actions of our life are such as we may safely commend them to God in our prayers.
- William Law
No concept is a carrier of life.
- Carl Jung
Use it or lose it" is a law of nature, but mercifully "not a soul will be lost" is a law of the spirit that supersedes it.
- Arianna Huffington
Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources.
- Aristotle
Pride creates a noise within us which makes the quiet voice of the Spirit hard to hear. And soon, in our vanity, we no longer even listen for it. We can come quickly to think we don't need it.
- Henry B. Eyring
God is a spirit and converses with us in a quiet atmosphere because our minds are not capable of listening to his voice when they are filled with noise and confusion.
- Mother Angelica
With my natural communication abilities, I could probably gather a crowd even without the Spirit.
- Francis Chan
I believe that what Genesis suggests is that this original self, with the print of God's thumb still upon it, is the most essential part of who we are and is buried deep in all of us as a source of wisdom and strength and healing which we can draw upon or, with our terrible freedom, not draw upon as we choose. I think that among other things all real art comes from that deepest self - painting, writing music, dance, all of it that in some way nourishes the spirit.
- Frederick Buechner