We cannot really look at the movement of the Spirit, just because It is the Power by which we do the looking.
All people are endowed with the faculty of compassion, and for this reason can develop the humanitarian spirit.
Feminism is still one of those taboo words, so hardly anybody talks about it. People usually go gender-neutral and say the book and film [ Room] are about "the triumph of the human spirit. "
[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.
Whatever adventure you are into, whatever you are doing, your attention should be on your spirit.
The brilliance of contemplated beauty opens the spirit to the mystery of God.
Further, if Spirit has any meaning at all, then it must be eternal, or without beginning or end. If Spirit had a beginning in time, then it would be strictly temporal, it would not be timeless and eternal. And this means, as regards your own awareness, that you cannot become enlightened. You cannot attain enlightenment. If you could attain enlightenment, then that state would have a beginning in time, and so it would not be true enlightenment.
I believe that the work of the Holy Spirit, through the church, will continue on.
Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
The singing of the songs of Zion, though imperfectly, with the inspiration of God, will touch the hearts of the honest more effectively than if sung well without the Spirit of God.
I don't know about Heaven or Hell, but I do know that we are visited all the time by the spirits of those who affected us in life.
When I had this concept ["You're All That"] that I'm not just a body with a mind, that I'm a spirit being, I'm a synergistically trying being, when I understood that, life began to come into focus.
To live in alignment with your Spirit is to live your truth and build your life upon it.
In this noisy, restless, bewildering age, there is a great need for quietness of spirit. Even in our communion with God we are so busy presenting our problems, asking for help, seeking relief that we leave no moments of silence to listen for God's answers. By practice we can learn to submerge our spirits beneath the turbulent surface waves of life and reach that depth of our being where all is still, where no storms can reach us. Here only can we forget the material world and its demands on us.
Even in animals there exists the spirit of their sires.
Never be without remembrance of Him, for His remembrance gives strength and wings to the bird of the Spirit.
Where our language suggests a body and there is none: there, we should like to say, is a spirit.
Jazz isn't like pop, where you sell millions of records with a hit. Your spirit and soul aren't important in pop music. But jazz is like classical music. If people like you, they'll remember you and you'll last forever.
Truth is a free creation of the human spirit, that never would exist at all if we did not generate it ourselves.
Actions speak louder than words. Businesses must act. Once the door to social consciousness is opened, bring the spirit of your company through it to affect change.