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"Fire is the spirit of candle and honesty is the spirit of man. Without spirit, there shall be no light but darkness" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"spirit is living, and Life is spirit, and Life and spirit produce all things, but they are essentially one and not two." »H Hahn Blavatsky
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"The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age." »Nadia Boulanger
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"You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit." »Demosthenes
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"The Holy spirit makes a man a Christian, and if he is a Christian through the work of the Holy spirit, that same spirit draws him to other Christians in the church. An individual Christian is not Christian at all." »R. Brokhoff
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"Your mind is your spirit; do not seek any other hidden soul inside you! All is in the brain! The depiction of a spirit rising to the sky is no more real than a medieval Scandinavian fairytales!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection." »Oprah Winfrey
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"The wise should surrender speech in mind, mind in the knowing self, the knowing self in the spirit of the universe, and the spirit of the universe in the spirit of peace." »Maitri Upanishads
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"The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit." »Bible
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"In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism." »Charles M. Schwab
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"The spirit is smothered, as it were, by ignorance, but so soon as ignorance is destroyed, spirit shine forth, like the sun when released from clouds." »Sankara
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"There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit." »Napoleon Bonaparte
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"Jingshen is the Mandarin word for spirit and vivacity. It is an important word for those who would lead, because above all things, spirit and vivacity set effective organizations apart from those that will decline and die." »James L. Hayes
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"We thank you, Almighty God, for the gift of water. Over it the Holy spirit moved in the beginning of creation. Through it you led the children of Israel out of their bondage in Egypt into the land of promise. In it your Son Jesus received the baptism of John and we are buried with Christ in his death. By it we share in his resurrection. Through it we are reborn by the Holy spirit." »Book of Common Prayer
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"For Scripture is the school of the Holy spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary and useful to know, so nothing is taught but what is expedient to know. Therefore we must guard against depriving believers of anything disclosed about predestination in Scripture, lest we seem either wickedly to defraud them of the blessing of their God or to accuse and scoff at the Holy spirit for having published what it is in any way profitable to suppress." »John Calvin
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"What is grace? It is the inspiration from on high: it is love; it is liberty. Grace is the spirit of law. This discovery of the spirit of law belongs to Saint Paul; and what he calls "grace" from a heavenly point of view, we, from an earthly point, call "rigtheousness."" »Victor Hugo
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"Being filled with the Holy spirit, then, is a matter of obedience to the Word of God. The filling of the spirit that all experienced at Pentecost was a matter of a promise being fulfilled. Today, the believer is to be filled in obedience to the command of Ephesians 518, continuously, not merely by a single, crisis experience. The Christian life is a growth process toward maturity." »Clarence Cramer
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"But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo the splendor of fame fades into nothing but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette." »James Grover Thurber
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"We are not separate from spirit, we are in it." »Plontius
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"The spirit is the true self." »Marcus Tullius Cicero
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"I myself do nothing. The Holy spirit accomplishes all through me." »William Blake
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"The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power." »Ninon de Lenclos
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"There is always more spirit in attack than in defence." »Titus Livius
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"The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking." »Albert Schweitzer
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"Everything in the world has a spirit which is released by its sound." »Oscar Fischinger
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"Brother, the Great spirit has made us all. . . . ." »Seneca
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"I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer." »Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 381
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"The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are." »Jacques Bossuet
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"Life without liberty is like a body without spirit." »Kahlil Gibran
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"It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive." »Earl Warren
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