Children arrive animists. They learn about life, themselves, and empathy by imagining the liveliness of everything they come into contact with.
Healing stories are magickal tales born from personal tribulation and victory, which are then shared.
If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit.
Three metamorphoses of the spirit have I designated to you: how the spirit became a camel, the camel a lion, and the lion at last a child.
The language of poetry is a language of deep intimacy that is meant to touch the human spirit and awaken it to the mystery of life, all life.
The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become.
I mean the flesh, never fade! The flesh never leave the creation, see, because with that divine spirit the flesh cannot fade. If the spirit is weak then the flesh fade, seen?
Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit.
When I sing, it's the most solitary state: just me, and the microphone, and the holy spirit. It's not about notes or scales, it's all about emotion.
As a scientist, you feel a sense of team spirit for your country but you also have a sense of team spirit for the international community.
I don't think the spirit of Hollywood is such a spirit of generosity. I think people really begrudge giving. In New York, it's like that.
Sometimes I Wonder Where Those Spirits Go After Departing From The Bodies, Then I Realize, They Are All Around Us, In The Nature, Full of Spirits In Different Forms....
There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.
I am living and having supernatural experiences. A lot of people get really freaked out about that. I speak in tongues; I've been baptized in the Holy Spirit.
The difference between going where you are needed and going where you are called is purely based upon diligent prayer and the leading of the Holy Spirit.
Most of the book deals with things we already know yet never learn.
I know by experience that Jesus Christ is a very powerful spirit - I know by experience that he is probably the most powerful spirit in the universe. I know by experience he is not a mere human being. He is something beyond that.
We're not like robots. God promises to guide us through the Holy Spirit, but He gives us the freedom to make our own decisions.
Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.
The power of the human spirit inspires me. Movies, books, stories, people, anything that reminds us that we are more than just this physical body and our capacity for love and courage can bend reality.
The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness. It illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world's busy life and become more interested in people than in things.
