Quotes about Spirit
Controversy is bad for the spirit, however enlivening to the wits.
— Dorothy Sayers
The Bible NEVER flatters its heroes. It tells us the truth about each one of them in order that against the background of human breakdown and failure we may magnify the grace of God and recognize that it is the delight of the Spirit of God to work upon the platform of human impossibilities.
— Alan Redpath
God's call to any man and the anointing of the Spirit for service are conditioned upon that man's heart response.
— Alan Redpath
Lord Jesus, we gladly crown Thee now! Lead us, O Thou great Shepherd of the sheep! Lead us, Thou great Captain of our salvation! We are Thine and Thine alone, and before the face of God our Father, in the name of the Holy Spirit our counselor, Lord Jesus Christ we bow to Thee, and we submit body, soul, and spirit. We are Thine forevermore, and we crown Thee King of all!
— Alan Redpath
The condition of the physical body can affect the spirit.
— Ezra Taft Benson
The Holy Ghost will warn us of danger, and it will inspire us to help others in need.
— Joseph Wirthlin
So she tasted of his soul and drank from the well he offered.
— Rachel Hauck
Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
For it is not meters, but a metermaking argument that makes a poem—a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
My speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power" (1 Corinthians 2: 4). In the same letter he wrote, "For the kingdom of God does not consist in talk but in power," and he speaks of the Holy Spirit giving "the working of miracles" (1 Corinthians 4: 20; 12: 10).
— Randy Clark
Evangelism is not first and foremost a matter of strategies, plans and projects, but rather of being filled with the Holy Spirit and allowing that divine life within us to burst forth in both word and action.
— Randy Clark
Please, you will do it anyway. When you hear to do a merciful thing, that is always at least a whisper from the heart of HaShem. Obedience will strengthen the ears of your spirit.
— Randy Ingermanson