Spirit Quotes

Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.

After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith; they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat.

Substance must emanate from spirit and is nothing else than the record of the spirit's conception of itself finding expression in space and time.

137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.

And the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat.

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.

In order to be an image of God, the spirit must turn to what is eternal, hold it in spirit, keep it in memory, and by loving it, embrace it in the will.

Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!

It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.

Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

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.

No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.

There is something of the freshness of mind, of the lightness of spirit in Linne which for centuries has been linked in people's minds with the mountains of Sweden and Swedish joy in nature.

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

Pope John Paul II brought hope to all corners of the world, to people of all faiths and backgrounds, with his powerful belief in the human spirit.

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

One of my beliefs is that there are certain institutions within a community which stand for the spirit and heart of that community, there's the church, the local football team, the local pub and the theatre.

The only rich person is a person who is rich in spirit. I have no money deposit. I have only beauty deposit.

Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.

In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.

A spirit in my feet said go, and I went.

No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.

I try to put the same spirit into that that I put into any other music endeavor I'm involved in.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.

There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

And so it was interesting for me to find myself very enamored of a Republican president, but Ronald Reagan was someone I thought captured the spirit of America.