Top 1200 Human Spirit Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

A human spirit may find no insufficiency of food fit for it, even in the Custom House.

The human being is a surprisingly resilient organism. We are impelled toward health not sickness. Your spirit, as surely as your body, will try to heal....So you should not fear tragedy and suffering. Like love, they make you more a part of the human family. From them can come your greatest creativity. They are the fire that burns you pure.

Total surrender to the demands of the human spirit: be attentive, be intelligent, be reasonable, be responsible, be in love.

Furthermore, through the believer's spirit the Holy Spirit is able to impart God's life to thirsty and dying men. However, this filling of the Holy Spirit differs from the baptism with the Holy Spirit, because the latter is for the purpose of service while the former solves the problem of life (naturally it will affect service too).

We cannot fulfill our engagements with the Almighty without we have that Spirit with us. We should so live as to acknowledge the Good Spirit continually. We cannot do this unless we let the Spirit of God rule in temporalities as well as in spiritual matter.

History is various and sinuous and no essential part of the human spirit is ever wholly absent from it.

Yet there is a dignity in the human spirit which can become most clearly visible in the moment of defeat and disaster.

Imagine what it might do to the human spirit to know that we have conquered hunger as a world wide societal issue?

Mathematics is, in many ways, the most precious response that the human spirit has made to the call of the infinite.

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

The real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its wings.

Art and the triumph of the human spirit - the two combined thrill me. It's the "Braveheart" moment, the stuff Joseph Campbell talks about, "the heroes journey," a beautiful documentary on a poignant topic, the fireman saving a kitten from a burning building. It's the combo of heroism and kindness against the odds or even good reason. It implies immortality because it is the domain of the soul. That evidence of the spirit of life is what makes me get out of bed in the morning.

The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs.

Any treatment of an illness that does not also minister to the human spirit is grossly deficient.

Enlightened Society is all about nurturing the human spirit - waking up to the goodness, kindness and strength that we already have.

Loneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, shut-in worlds.

God would have us move to the highest level of our nature, and that means that we need to understand that our capacity to deal with the spirit-the darkness of the spirit with the light of the spirit as our greatest power.

It is in the wild places, where the edge of the earth meets the corners of the sky, the human spirit is fed.

The Bible has a very meaningful expression: The Spirit makes all things new. We are those who grow old, and we want everything done to our aged standards. The Spirit is never old; the Spirit is always young.

I AM A PERSON WHO THINKS ABOUT THE NATURE OF THE SPIRIT WHEN I WRITE. I THINK ABOUT WHAT CAN'T BE KNOWN AND ONLY IMAGINED. I OFTEN SENSE A SPIRIT OR FORCE OR MEANING BEYOND MYSELF. I LEAVE IT OPEN AS TO WHAT THE SPIRIT IS, BUT I CONTINUE TO MAKE GUESSES.

How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?

Spirit is the essence of consciousness, the energy of the universe that creates all things. Each one of us is a part of that spirit - a divine entity. So the spirit is the higher self, the eternal being that lives within us.

I would say it simply: No one can give that which he doesn't personally possess, which means we cannot transmit the Holy Spirit in an effective way, render the Spirit perceptible, if we ourselves aren't close to the Spirit.

It is so hard for us little human beings to accept this deal that we get. It's really crazy, isn't it? We get to live, then we have to die. ... What spirit human beings have! It is a pretty cheesy deal - all the pleasures of life, and then death.

Prayer, the basic exercise of the spirit, must be actively practiced in our private lives. The neglected soul of the human being must be made strong enough to assert itself once more. For if the power of prayer is again released and used in the lives of common men and women; if the spirit declares its aims clearly and boldly, there is yet hope that our prayers for a better world will be answered.

Words alone cannot fully convey the realities of the soul or the greatness of the human spirit.

Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth.

We need a spirit of victory, a spirit that will carry us to our rightful place under the sun, a spirit which can recognize that we, as inheritors of a proud civilization, are entitled to our rightful place on this planet. If that indomitable spirit were to arise, nothing can hold us from achieving our rightful destiny.

When you love without conditions, you the human and you the God, align with the spirit of life moving through you.

By choosing positivity you become a contender for the human spirit giving hope to those in need.

Art that has depth makes a strong impact on the spirit, emotion, mood and thoughts of a human being.

The human spirit is not indestructible; but a courageous few discover that, when in hell, they are granted a glimpse of heaven.

The life and death of a human being is so exquisitely calibrated as to automatically produce union with Spirit.

Through His Spirit, the Spirit of prayer, our life may be one of continual prayer. The Spirit of prayer will help you become an intercessor, asking great things of God for those around you.

The sensory world is the school, without which the human being would never come to the spirit.

Truth is a free creation of the human spirit, that never would exist at all if we did not generate it ourselves.

I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.

Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.

Do not let your spirit be influenced by your body, or your body be influenced by your spirit. Be neither insufficiently spirited or over spirited. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Take this as the secret of Christ's life in you: His Spirit dwells in your innermost spirit. Meditate on it, believe in it, and remember it until this glorious truth produces within you a holy fear and wonderment that the Holy Spirit indeed abides in you.

Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth- in a word, to know himself- so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves.

There are two parts to the human dilemma. One is the belief that the end justifies the means. That push-button philosophy, that deliberate deafness to suffering, has become the monster in the war machine. The other is the betrayal of the human spirit: the assertion of dogma that closes the mind, and turns a nation, a civilization, into a regiment of ghosts--obedient ghosts or tortured ghosts.

Art is something about the spirit... if you want to make something that has a spirit, and speaks to the spirit of other people in the world, you have to touch it, you have to physically address it... if you don't, if you just farm it out, it becomes a product.

A spiritual Christian therefore is one whose spirit is led by God's Spirit... Perhaps their speech does convey truth, but without the quickening of the Holy Spirit even truth is of small advantage.

Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.

I love putting myself in sink-or-swim situations. You realize the human spirit is built to survive.

So complex is the human spirit that it can itself scarce discern the deep springs which impel it to action.

Repentance is something that is brought about in the human heart by the work of God the Holy Spirit.

Some sort of creativity is within everybody; I think that's just a part of the human spirit. I think there's no human being on earth who is not creative in some way, because I think it's just a part of our genetic makeup.

God is the vital force or spirit which is all-pervading, all-embracing and, therefore, beyond human ken.

I think it is time we learned the lesson of our century: that the progress of the human spirit must keep pace with technological and scientific progress, or that spirit will die. It is incumbent on our educators to remember this; and music is at the top of the spiritual must list. When the study of the arts leads to the adoration of the formula (heaven forbid), we shall be lost. But as long as we insist on maintaining artistic vitality, we are able to hope in man

The human spirit is indomitable, unless your talking specifically about the people I know.

A lot of people are confused about the difference between the soul and the spirit. Basically the spirit is the envelop that protects the soul from harm. If the spirit is relatively healthy, the soul will be too.

To be able to rise from the earth; to be able, from a station in outer space, to see the relationship of the planet earth to other planets; to be able to contemplate the billions of factors in precise and beautiful combination that make human existence possible; to be able to dwell on an encounter of the human brain and spirit with the universe

Reconnection to the natural world is fundamental to human health, well-being, spirit, and survival.

Say whatever you will about Donald Trump, there's one thing nobody can deny, and that is he has a can-do spirit - good old American can-do spirit - and Trump's can-do spirit is backed up with Trump's can-do action.

Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.

You are engaged in a work so spiritual, so far above all human power, that to forget the Spirit is to ensure defeat.