Top 100 Our Spirit Quotes
#1. Stepping out of the busyness, stopping our endless pursuit of getting somewhere else, is perhaps the most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.
Tara Brach
#2. Just as the Eucharist fuels our soul and our spirit, good healthful meals fuel our bodies for the work God calls each of us to do in his kingdom. Praying before we consume a meal or when we are feeling exhausted and stressed helps to bring this "body and soul" connection into the light
Mary DeTurris Poust
#3. Even when it feels as if we are being crushed by earthly troubles, we can remain joyful. If we keep our focus on God, our spirit cannot be trampled.
Mary C. Neal
#4. Our mind can move directly and aggressively on impulse, while our spirit moves gently and calmly on our intuition.
Michael Thomas Sunnarborg
#5. [To] Immediately ... turn to our spirit and exercise our spirit to contact God ... practically means that we do not trust in ourselves but in God.
Witness Lee
#6. It was one of those dewy, clear, starry nights, oppressing our spirit, crushing our pride, by the brilliant evidence of the awful loneliness, of the hopeless obscure insignificance of our globe lost in the splendid revelation of a glittering, soulless universe.
Joseph Conrad
#7. A spark of divinity ignited a flame of fire within our spirit, our soul and our hearts.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#8. Rivers are places that renew our spirit, connect us with our past, and link us directly with the flow and rhythm of the natural world.
Leo Tolstoy
#9. Our spirit grows and develops traits in each incarnation that it passes through, and then collects and carries the essence of those traits into future lifetimes. In Buddhist Yoga we refer to our multi-life karmic traits as samskaras.
Frederick Lenz
#10. The acute experience of great beauty readily evokes a nameless yearning for something more than earth can offer. Elegant splendor reawakens our spirit's aching need for the infinite, a hunger for more than matter can provide.
Thomas Dubay
#11. Therefore, brethren, pray until God gives us revelation so that "knowing this" in our spirit we may truly confess "that our old man has been crucified with him."
Watchman Nee
#12. And in a mad trance
Strike with our spirit's knife
Invulnerable nothings
We decay
Like corpses in a charnel
Fear & Grief
Convulse is & consume us
Day by day
And cold hopes swarm
Like worms within
Our living clay
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#13. We need worship for our spirit, fellowship for our soul and committed subservience for our body.
Larry Norman
#14. Most of us, like the assembly line worker, have jobs that are too small for our spirit. Jobs are not big enough for people.
Nora Watson quoted by Studs Terkel2
R. Paul Stevens
#15. Poetry is our heart, our spirit, our soul. Call it whatever; without it, everything else is nothing but hardware.
Vanna Bonta
#16. Life is a gift, and should be cherished, lived and experienced. Though experience often reveals itself as pain in this world, it is still purposeful, it still has its place in the evolution of our spirit.
Michael Poeltl
#18. I know this about the American people: We welcome competition. We'll match our ingenuity, our energy, our experience and technology, our spirit and enterprise against anyone.
George H. W. Bush
#19. Danger alone acquaints us with our own resources, our virtues, our armor and weapons, our spirit, and forces us to be strong.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#20. What is the greatest thing in us is our Spirit, is the Spirit that we have and we should know that we should be proud of it that we have got the Spirit within us. And if you become proud, then you will not do nonsensical things.
Nirmala Srivastava
#21. To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#23. When fear overwhelms truth and love, we call it pain. Our spirit as women has all the knowledge and power we need to give birth and to nurture our babies. It is in our genetic coding. It has been there since the beginning of time. You can trust its wisdom.
Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa
#24. The heavier our bodies, the higher our will, our spirit, rises above them.' 'The wearier we are, the more splendid the training.
Ruth Benedict
#25. When we live in alignment - in accordance with our higher selves, our Spirit - that's when we are truly connected to our Soul.
Excerpt from "Living in Light, Love & Truth". (Page 26).
Kasi Kaye Iliopoulos
#26. Fear is an insidious virus. Given a breeding place in our minds ... it will eat away our spirit and block the forward path of our endeavors.
James F. Bell, III
#27. The problem that we have with a victim mentality is that we forget to see the blessings of the day. Because of this, our spirit is poisoned instead of nourished.
Steve Maraboli
#29. Before we return to Heaven, our real home, we have an incredible opportunity on Earth to face challenges that will help us learn, grow and to become more Christ-like in the fruits of our spirit.
Mary C. Neal
#30. The state of our state is fragile, but I know our spirit and love for Nevada is not.
Kenny Guinn
#31. We're all given terrible trials sometimes, things that we think will break our spirit and kill us, and they make us stronger in the end. They seem like the cruelest blows, but in a funny way they're like compliments from God.
Danielle Steel
#32. Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain
Doug Horton
#34. Victims have succumbed to defeat, and their spirit has been conquered and crushed. We survivors are fearless gladiators, and our spirit can never be broken.
Robert Palasciano
#35. It is great and manly to disdain disguise; it shows our spirit and proves our strength.
Edward Young
#36. So age after age - will it be soon, O Lord? -
Beneath the scalpel of nature and art,
Our spirit screams, our flesh depletes itself,
Giving birth to an organ for the sixth sense.
("The Sixth Sense")
Nikolay S. Gumilev
#37. People as well as nations perish without scriptures. The scriptures are spiritual food for our spirit, which is just as important as physical food for our body.
L. Lionel Kendrick
#38. Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.
Cesare Pavese
#39. I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.
Kurt Vonnegut
#40. The thought of death leaves me in perfect peace, for I have a firm conviction that our spirit is a being of indestructible nature; it works on from eternity to eternity, it is like the sun, which though it seems to set to our mortal eyes, does not really set, but shines on perpetually.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#41. Being loving does not mean we will not be betrayed. Love helps up face betrayal without losing heart. And it renews our spirit so we can love again.
Bell Hooks
#42. No matter how hopeless or bleak things appear, the moment always comes when suddenly our spirit revives, and hope is reborn. That is why we must never give up.
Daisaku Ikeda
#43. It's possible to transform the violent energy of our time into a culture of kindness.
All things are possible through the openness of our mind, the gentleness of our spirit, and the act of understanding and embracing.
Lily Yeh
#44. Life can dictate that we suffer physical restrictions and limitations, but no one has the ability to restrict or in any way demean our spirit unless we agree to it.
Sonia Choquette
#45. When God stirs our spirit or breaks our heart, we cannot sit back. We've got to step up and step in. We've got to go all in by going all out. But if we have the courage to make the choice or take the risk, it will become the defining moment of our lives.
Mark Batterson
#46. The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.
Blaise Pascal
#47. The most reliable and proper feeling is often a gentle sense that does not compel. It is like a voice but not a voice; it is a sense that prompts but does not compel. This most precious sense is the operating and anointing of the Holy Spirit within our spirit.
Witness Lee
#49. We must be strong at home if we are going to be strong abroad. We understand that. So we want to be strong at home in our morale or in our spirit, we want to be strong intellectually, in our education, in our economy and, where necessary, militarily.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#50. There is no mistaking love. You feel it in your heart. It is the common fiber of life, the flame that heats our soul, energizes our spirit, and supplies passion to our lives.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#51. May our spirit fill us with understanding of victory and defeat, the gift of collaboration, the wisdom to choose the right path, and opportunities that inspire hope.
Celeste Cooper
#52. The more important a call to action is to our soul's evolution, the more Resistance we will feel about answering it. But to yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be.
Steven Pressfield
#53. We should try our best to pour out all the burdens in our spirit by prayer until all of them have left us.
Watchman Nee
#54. I think we need to do some deep soul searching about what's important in our lives and renew our spirit and our spiritual thinking, whether it's through faith-based religion or just through loving nature or helping your fellow man.
Louie Schwartzberg
#55. Love is two people in love,
who bond as one,
destined for each other;
this is the meaning of love.
A piece of our spirit remains wherever we have been ...
Stacey Chillemi
#56. For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, "Abba, Father." The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children.
Jerry Bridges
#57. They came with a Bible and their religion- stole our land, crushed our spirit ... and now tell us we should be thankful to the 'Lord' for being saved. Chief Pontiac, American Indian Chieftain
George Washington
#58. I know that there is no such thing as death, because our spirit has always been alive and always will be. We are as eternal as God who created us.
Sylvia Browne
#59. God not only wants to break the outer man ... He wants our spirit and our soul ... our inner man and outer man to be separated from each other.
Watchman Nee
#60. Bringing a spiritual dimension into all that we do is essential for ending the struggle and dancing with life. Our body and our minds can take us only so far, our spirit can lead us all the way Home.
Susan Jeffers
#61. We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.
Charles Lamb
#62. We will not apologize for oour way of life, nor will we waver in its defense, and for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now that our spirit is stronger and cannot be broken; you cannot outlast us, and we will defeat you.
Barack Obama
#63. No one can rob us of our own soul, and our spirit is already one with the eternal goodness.
Ernest Holmes
#64. Life is messy. Grit and grace come at us fast, side by side. Sometimes the grit becomes overwhelming and diminishes our spirit. What's good seems lost and gone forever. This is a story about the pathway back to what's beautiful, when the way back seems impossible.
Sharon E. Rainey
#65. Another faculty has released this knowledge: our spirit. It is God's Word in our spirit. It creates a reality that registers in our spirit. We live by this spiritual knowledge and walk in its light.
Phil Pringle
#66. We should begin the day with the Bible, and as it comes to a close let the Word speak its wisdom to our souls. Let it be the Staff of Life upon which our spirit is nourished. Let it be the Sword of the Spirit which cuts away the evil of our lives and fashions us in His image and likeness.
Billy Graham
#67. Like flowers and plants, we too need ground under our feet, warmth and sunshine and food for our spirit, protective boundaries, tending and care, freedom to grow unencumbered and without limitation, and complete support from the Universe to become our greatest possible self.
Sonia Choquette
#68. If our spirit is submitted to the Holy Spirit, we will make choices according to the Father's will and stay on His highway.
Bonnie Jones
#69. When we lack etiquette, we trash things. We trash each other. We trash the environment. We lose sight of the value of things. We suffer alienation when our spirit is disconnected from our physical awareness.
Frederick Lenz
#70. The only words that matter flow from the cracks in our spirit, through the breaches in our resolve.
C.B. Shiepe
#71. It's not the troubles we run into, it's what we do about them which determines their net effect upon our lives ... by the very act of trying, our spirit is making progress.
Nick Baylis
#72. Our purpose here on earth: to manifest the very nature of our spirit, which is touched by the spirit of God.
Rumi
#73. We should cultivate the optimistic temperament, and endeavour to see the good that dwells in everything. If we sit down and lament over the imperfection of our bodies and our minds, we profit nothing; it is the heroic endeavour to subdue adverse circumstances that carries our spirit upward.
Swami Vivekananda
#74. While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
Gilda Radner
#75. The Presence of God is an applying of our spirit to GOD, or a realization of GOD as present, which is borne home to us either by the imagination or by the understanding.
Brother Lawrence
#76. Even sickness becomes an experience that we pass through in happiness because our happiness is not dependent upon how our body feels, but how our spirit feels.
Frederick Lenz
#78. Prayer is the peace of our spirit, the stillness of our thoughts, the evenness of recollection, the seat of meditation, the rest of our cares and the calm of our tempest; prayer is the issue of a quiet mind, of untroubled thoughts, it is the daughter of charity, and the sister of meekness.
Jeremy Taylor
#80. Spiritual reading, therefore, is slow, deliberate, meditative reading in which we allow the words to penetrate our heart and question our spirit.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#81. When we create an environment where our spirit is in sync with the Divine Spirit, then we should be on the lookout for good, positive, helpful thoughts and ideas from a source beyond ourselves. p23.
David Brazzeal
#82. Uncharged with invisible meaning, the visible is nothing, mere clay; and without visible circumstance, a territory, to connect to, our spirit is shapeless, nameless, and undefined.
E.L. Doctorow
#83. Creating is to humans as flying is to birds. It is our nature, our spirit.
Kevin Ashton
#84. Global transformation can occur only when each individual has the courage to awaken from this amnesia to our true self and then make conscious choices true to our spirit. The human race is the only species on earth evolved enough to be capable of this privilege.
Patsie Smith
#85. The attacks of September 11th were intended to break our spirit. Instead we have emerged stronger and more unified.
Rudy Giuliani
#86. When we emerge into the beauty of a dancing peacock, our spirit dances with joy.
Debasish Mridha
#87. Our body is just a vehicle for us while we're here. It is our soul and our spirit that last forever." I
Brian L. Weiss
#90. The model of the human habitat dictated by zoning is a formless, soul-less, centerless, demoralizing mess. It bankrupts families and townships. It disables whole classes of decent, normal citizens. It ruins the air we breathe. It corrupts and deadens our spirit.
James Howard Kunstler
#91. It is not so much the greatness of our troubles, as the littleness of our spirit, which makes us complain.
James Hudson Taylor
#93. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but names will break our spirit.
James Howe
#94. We play in the jungle gym of sexuality until our spirit takes us out into a clear field where we can see the stars, the ten thousand radiances of enlightenment. One of those radiances is the dance of sexuality.
Frederick Lenz
#96. Our spirit is the real part of us, the body but its garment. A man would not find peace at the tailor's because his coat comes from there; neither can the spirit obtain true happiness from the earth just because his body belongs to earth.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#97. When our consciousness is quiet, the waves of thought cease and we see clearly enough to relate back to our spirit. we connect with who we really are.
Alan Finger
#98. Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it isn't.
Eben Alexander
#99. Habit! that skillful but slow arranger, which starts out by letting our spirit suffer for weeks in a temporary state, but that thespirit is after all happy to discover, for without habit and reduced to its own resources, the spirit would be unable to make any lodgings seem habitable.
Marcel Proust
#100. A great book feeds our soul and nourishes our spirit in a way nothing else can.
C.S. Lakin
