Quotes about Spirit

It is the false convert who is like a dog that returns to his vomit and the pig who goes back to the mire. A genuine convert would rather die than despise the Spirit of grace and trample the blood of Christ under his feet. 3:21 See Psalm 50:22-23.

the irreconcilable antitheses of death and life, the world and the kingdom of heaven, and then again to see them both as one, before he can evaluate the concealed power of this unique spirit. For 'this was a man and to be a man means to be a fighter'.

Man is both strong and weak, both free and bound, both blind and far-seeing. He stands at the juncture of nature and spirit; and is involved in both freedom and necessity.

Dance is the landscape of man's soul.

Man's words are mere breath, but the word of the Lord is spirit and life.

The man who sticks it out against his fate shows spirit, but the spirit of a fool.

He (man) is both dust of earth and breath of God.

Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent.

A man is a little soul carrying around a courpse.

The world proceeds from the same spirit as the body of man. It is a remoter and inferior incarnation of God, a projection of God in the unconscious.

The strongest wind cannot stagger a Spirit; it is a Spirit's breath. A just man's purpose cannot be split on any Grampus or material rock, but itself will split rocks till it succeeds.

For the most part, the best man's spirit makes a fearful sprite to haunt his grave.