Quotes of: True-spirit Keyword

God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which he must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and relax our nerves.

The Pursuit of God

Caring about him was like trying to love a tree stump - a cold, mean-spirited paternalistic tree stump. With fungus.

Prophecy Girl

Your spirit needs self-love like the body needs oxygen.

Psychic Wisdom on Love and Relationships

You are my favorite song; a rhythm of beauty that captures my spirit.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Let me make this radiantly clear—if you believe in spirits and the metaphysical world, your biology will create the illusion that these things are real.

Unspirituality: Permission to Be Human

Desire is an appetite, quickly sated. Longing is a wound, an opening in the heart or the spirit. Whatever the cause, whatever the duration, it almost always leaves a scar.

The Valley of Unknowing

Living in the Spirit changes your attitude, thinking, and ultimately your actions.

A Woman's Guide to Making Right Choices

The best beauty treatment of all is time spent quietly before the Lord.

A Woman's Walk with God: Growing in the Fruit of the Spirit

May the beauty of the flowers remind us of the beauty of our loved one's spirit

We Do Remember You

Every time I work with a European director, I find they hire the person that captures the spirit of the role. Americans tend to hire the best face. The person that looks more like the role, whether they can perform the role or not is a bonus.

Elizabeth Pena

...theology waits as it works. It waits for its lungs again to be filled. Without the renewing breath of the Spirit it cannot speak.

After Crucifixion: The Promise of Theology

A clever general, therefore, avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return. This is the art of studying moods.

The Art of War

Her anger said, as anger is apt to say, that God was with her— that all heaven, though it were crowded with spirits watching them, must be on her side.

Middlemarch

Olive trees are intimate creatures, eloquent in their twistedness. It's easy to understand why the ancients believed human spirits could be trapped inside them.

Middlesex

O God, what offering shall I give To Thee, the Lord of earth and skies? My spirit, soul, and flesh receive, A holy, living sacrifice.

Joachim Lange

Stand-up comedy is a very hard thing on the spirit. There are people who transcend it, like Jack Benny and Steve Martin, but in its essence, it's soul-destroying. It tends to turn people into control freaks.

Mike Nichols

I'm not much like my mother; that role falls to my brothers, who have more of her blithe and freewheeling spirit.

Meghan O'Rourke

In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell.

Norman Mailer

Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are.

Oswald Chambers

Whenever the conviction of God’s Spirit comes there is the softening of the whole nature to obey; but if the obedience is not instant there will come a metallic hardening and a corrupting of the guidance of God.

Oswald Chambers

The main characteristic which is the proof of the indwelling Spirit is an amazing tenderness in personal dealing, and a blazing truthfulness with regard to God’s Word.

Oswald Chambers