Nothing exasperates the spirit in man more than power which seems unconquerable and which makes impotent all protest.
I have always been interested in religion, especially in forms of ecstatic religion, where people are touched directly by the Spirit and go completely out of themselves.
While the Bible teaches that immortality of the soul is conditional upon well-doing, it makes no distinction in respect of the spirit.
Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.
You need at least six or seven years to understand the philosophy and concentration of karate to know to clean your spirit of everything and dedicate your mind and body to the sport.
Even now I want to keep my amateur spirit, to spend my time, to be in the sport with all my heart.
Churches we build only by our own efforts and not in the strength of the Spirit will quickly collapse when we don't push and prod people along.
Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don't give your heart to anything, but the love of those whose hearts are glad.
I love disappearing. That's what acting is. For me it's about putting on a persona, stepping into a pair of shoes. It's my face, but I'm using it as a tool for that spirit, that character.
It doesn't matter the kind of music, it doesn't matter whether it's a cowboy hat or a yarmulke. I don't care if it's outer space or pop, the spirit is the same.
The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.
I have Aboriginal roots on my father's side, and have always indentified with that spirit. I feel a lot of my music comes from that place.
Never yet was a nation born that did not begin in the spirit, pass to the heart and the mind, and then take an outer form in the world of men.
The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.
I take pride in knowing the NFL is pink in October, sparking conversations everywhere about breast cancer and prevention, all in the spirit of my mom.
Past boldness is no assurance of future boldness. Boldness demands continual reliance on God's spirit.
Diamonds and pearls are earth's treasures, love is the greatest treasure of life in the physical and life in Spirit.
April hath put a spirit of youth in everything. (Sonnet XCVIII)
The kitchen is tough. It's one of the last bastions in civilized culture that sets out to crush the spirit.
Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.