In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.
George Taylor: Chalk up another victory to the human spirit.
Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.
I love being in a band. I love that collaborative spirit, although some would suggest that I don't get involved in the collaborative spirit, but it's not true.
I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive.
The human spirit collapses not when it is deprived of food but when it is denied a dream. - Andy Paula, LifeBeyondNumbers
I believe innately in the human spirit being a powerful and positive thing. And that just comes out, whether you like it or not. It comes out in the writing.
Marriage, like everything else in the world, is holy or unholy depending on the purpose the mind ascribes to it.
For if we see that the sun, in sending forth its rays upon the earth, to generate, cherish, and invigorate its offspring, in a manner transfuses its substance into it, why should the radiance of the Spirit be less in conveying to us the communion of ...
Nor is it the spirit of those Christians - alas, they are many - whose ambition in life seems limited to building a nice middle-class Christian home, and making nice middle-class Christian friends, and bringing up their children in nice middle-class ...
I smack myself in the forehead. “Holy priceless collection of Etruscan snoods, they’re not moving!” I exclaim. There’s a choking noise over my head somewhere. “Etruscan snoods?” I glow quietly inside. Some accomplishments mean more than o...
From time to time I try to imagine this world of which he spoke--a culture in whose mythology words might be that precious, in which words were conceived as vessels for communications from the heart; a society in which words are holy, and the challen...
God wants man to be His creature. Furthermore, He wants him to be His PARTNER. There is a causa Dei in the world. God wants light, not darkness. He wants cosmos, not chaos. He wants peace, not disorder. He wants man to administer and to receive justi...
I recall once seeing a commentary advertised as having been written in prison without recourse to other commentaries and by reliance on the Holy Spirit alone. I doubt whether those last two phrases are complementary. If God has set teachers in the ch...
I cannot decide whether it is an illness or a sin, the need to write things down and fix the flowing world in one rigid form. Bear believed writing dulled the spirit, stilled some holy breath. Smothered it. Words, when they’ve been captured and imp...
Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.
Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.
You don't enter a dance studio and say "I can't do that." If you do, then why are you in the studio in the first place?
A great spirit has been amongst us, and a great artist is gone.
Human spirit needs music. Music nourish the soul to survive life's trauma.
Jim said he believed it was spirits, but I says: no, spirits wouldn't say "dern the dern fog".
