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“I always thought of my work as being animated by a spirit of unhinged generosity.”

Spirit Generosity Animated Generosity Of Spirit

Author:Mark Leyner

“Jesus' kingdom was not like the popular expectation. He used the phrase 'kingdom of God' with a different meaning. His kingdom was not of this world (John 18:36). It was not like the kingdoms of this world. It was the kingdom of God, a supernatural kingdom. It was invisible to most people (John 3:3)-it could not be understood or experienced without the Holy Spirit (v. 6). God is Spirit, and the kingdom of God is a spiritual kingdom.”

People World Different Spiritual Used Spirit Jesus This World Holy Expectations Understood Invisible Kingdoms Phrases Holy Spirit Kingdom Of God Different Meanings

Author:Tom Harpur

“When rough times have fallen upon our state in the past, Texans have always responded with generosity and an eagerness to help. The compassionate response to the fires has proven that this community spirit is alive and well.”

Wells States Helping Past Spirit Community Fire Alive Response Generosity Fallen Rough Compassionate Proven Rough Times Eagerness Texan Community Spirit

Author:Randy Neugebauer

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

Spirit Mother Fall Roles Brother My Brother Blithe

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“My school spirit is at an all time low, I'm losing my status at the school.”

School Spirit Education Losing Lows All Time All Time Low

Author:Frank Zappa

“It is so easy for your people to forget that everything has a spirit, that all are equal. That magic and mystery are a part of your lives, not something to store away in a child's bedroom, or to use as an escape from your lives.”

People Children Use Spirit Spirituality Easy Forget Magic Mystery Equal Stores Bedroom

Book:The Onion Girl

Source: The Onion Girl

“The Holy Spirit is no skeptic. He has written neither doubt nor mere opinion into our hearts, but rather solid assurances, which are more sure and solid than all experience and even life itself.”

Heart Spirit Spirituality Opinion Doubt Written Holy Mere Holy Spirit Assurance Skeptic

Author:Martin Luther

“Spirits are not finely touched But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence But like a thrifty goddess she determines Herself the glory of a creditor,Both thanks and use.”

Use Spirit Spirituality Issues Fine Glory Excellence Determine Thanks Touched Goddess Smallest Creditors Scruples Thrifty

Book:Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)

Source: Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)

“Its all spirit and its all connected...Our choice is to live out of harmony with spiritual ways or in harmony with spiritual ways. Everything is spiritual.”

Way Spiritual Spirit Choices Spirituality Harmony Connected Our Choices

Author:William Commanda

“You will identify yourself either as a body or perfect spirit, as either divided or whole, depending upon how you see others. And, once you understand that, you will be careful about how you think about other people.”

People Thinking Whole Body Spirit Perfect Awareness Careful Divided Be Careful

Author:Gary Renard

“Our God, the Great Spirit, seems also to have forsaken us. Your God makes your people wax stronger every day. Soon they will fill all the land.”

People God Seems Spirit Land Stronger Forsaken Great Spirit

Author:Chief Seattle

“The spirit is what guides my life, and I'm humbly on my knees in thanks for guidance and direction every day. But God is not something to be preached, it's something to be lived.”

God Spirit Guides Thanks Knees Guidance Guidance And Direction

Author:Ben Harper

“[Alternate translation:] The Divine Spirit found a sublime outlet in that wonder of analysis, that portent of the ideal world, that amphibian between being and not-being, which we call the imaginary root of negative unity.”

World Science Spirit Found Wonder Divine Negative Ideals Roots Unity Analysis Imaginary Sublime Translations Outlets Ideal World Portents Amphibians

Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter.”

People Firsts Spirit Given Mets Meetings Albums Max Great People Carter Dukes Armstrong

Author:Abbey Lincoln

“I think I'm like a free spirit.”

Thinking Spirit Free Spirit

Author:Bai Ling

“When your heart is first, you can be absent of heart but when you put spirit first, you have a reason for why you do heart.”

Firsts Heart Reason Spirit Absent

Author:Derek Luke

“I am very proud of my mom and consider her the most courageous woman I know. With perseverance, sacrifice and hard work, she raised a family of Olympic athletes and gave us the tools and the spirit to succeed. That is something that my brothers and I will always be thankful for.”

“The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.”

Real Reason Spirit Force Paris No Reason Valleys Mentality Silicon Silicon Valley

Author:Xavier Niel

“The new independent spirit at Warner Music is a perfect fit for a stand-alone label like Maverick.”

Spirit Perfect Fit Music Is Independent Labels Stand Alone Maverick Perfect Fit

Author:Guy Oseary

“I think the traditional explanation is that demons just find someone, they pick on them and try to break down their spirit so they can... take control of their bodies. Why exactly? I don't know.”

Thinking Knows Trying Body Spirit Break Picks Traditional Explanation Demon Breaking Down Take Control

Author:Oren Peli

“In my opinion it's not about gay or straight or bi, we're attracted to spirits, whatever body they're in. There are other reasons too, but that's how I see it.”

Reason Body Spirit Opinion Gay

Author:Dana Plato

“I feel comfortable here primarily because I think Los Angeles is made up of people who don't come from here, so you can find kindred spirits very easily. It's a town of gypsies.”

People Thinking Feels Made Spirit Comfortable Towns Los Angeles Gypsy Kindred Kindred Spirit

Author:Matthew Rhys

“The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves.”

Ifs Humans Care Spirit Left Sin Activity Take Care Human Spirit Ugliness

Book:The Meaning of Art

Source: The Meaning of Art

“I mean, like, rock n' roll was always about spirit and fun.”

Mean Spirit Fun Rocks Rock N Roll

Author:Joey Ramone

“A person can be big, because of spirit. A person can be big because of their position in the family, the hierarchy in the family. That role has been played by women who are quite thin.”

Persons Has Beens Bigs Spirit Roles Position Hierarchy

Author:Phylicia Rashad

“For me, acting was a way of releasing all of this stuff that I had inside - and a way for me to tell the stories of the people I knew, so that their spirit could live through me.”

People Way Stories Spirit Stuff Acting

Author:Ving Rhames

“The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors.”

Persons Spirit Responsibility Direct Performances Composer Conductor Interpreting

Book:On Conducting

Source: On Conducting

“The spirit of logical analysis should in practice blend with the practical pressure for the adoption of some form of international language, but it should not allow itself to be stampeded by it.”

Should Form Spirit Language Practice Pressure International Practicals Analysis Logical Adoption International Language

Book:Culture, Language, and Personality: Selected Essays

Source: Culture, Language, and Personality: Selected Essays

“There is more openness in LA to possibilities than on the East Coast of America. There is a pioneering spirit there that stems from the reason people went out there in the first place-to find something new.”

People Firsts Reason America Spirit Possibility East Something New Openness Stem Coast East Coast Pioneering Pioneering Spirit

Author:Esa-Pekka Salonen

“But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series of injustice, which has reigned in all countries for almost four thousand years.”

Years Firsts Country Government Spirit Four Changed Thousand Succeed Series Injustice Thousand Years Conquest

Author:Ezra Stiles

“Every music - except dance music, which is for dancing, I suppose - is for the spirit of the human being, and not for the body.”

Humans Body Spirit Human Beings Dancing Dance Music

Author:Klaus Schulze

“Excepting the infinite spirit, everything else is changing. There is the whirl of change.”

Spirit Change Infinite

Book:Complete Works

Source: Complete Works

“Maybe Governor Romney in the spirit of openness should tell us how much money he's made off of how many households that have been foreclosed by his investments.”

Should Has Beens Made Spirit Republican Investment Openness Household Governors Romney Governor Romney

Author:Newt Gingrich

“And so one may be without connection with any church, and even without connection with any established religion, and yet be in spirit, hence in reality, a much truer Christian than hosts of those who profess to be His most ardent followers, as indeed Jesus Himself so many times says. "By their fruits ye shall know them," said He. "Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven."”

Knows May Said Reality Christian Spirit Father Jesus Heaven Church Christianity Lord Connections Fruit Kingdoms Followers Host Ardent Kingdom Of Heaven

Book:Thoughts I Met on the Highway and Other Truths

Source: Thoughts I Met on the Highway and Other Truths

“Nobody can make you happy but yourself. Things occupy us, people occupy us, but they don't make us happy. If we are honest, what makes us happy is to experience spirit.”

People Ifs Happiness Spirit Honest Buddhism Make You Happy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

Feels Body Happiness Spirit Buddhism Sickness Dependent

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is important to have a certain amount of solitude just to clear your circuits. You will find that you can be very happy just being by yourself. Go to new places. It will cleanse your spirit.”

Important Spirit Certain Nature Clear Buddhism Amount Solitude Being Yourself Just Being Very Happy Circuits New Places

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

Play Spirit Stars Clear Fields Buddhism Thousand Ten Enlightenment Sexuality Gym Jungle Radiance

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In order to succeed on the athletic field, it is necessary to succeed in daily life. Your spirit and your life must be perfectly trimmed for the chi to flow properly.”

Spirit Order Fields Health Buddhism Succeed Flow Daily Life Athletic Athletics Order To Succeed

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Sports and athletics can be a path in Zen, in concordance with daily practice of zazen meditation. You need to move with your spirit, not just with your body.”

Needs Body Moving Spirit Sports Practice Path Meditation Health Buddhism Your Body Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are lots of people who work out and aren't at all powerful in terms of their mind or their spirits.”

People Mind Spirit Term Powerful Health Buddhism Work Out Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When your spirit is free and your body is well developed, magic occurs. You are able to let go and become the play.”

Wells Play Body Able Spirit Magic Health Buddhism Letting Go Your Body Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

Way Life Inspirational Mind Home Body Spiritual Spirit Struggle Positive Essentials Dancing Dimensions Way Home Spiritual Dimensions

Author:Susan Jeffers

“I am persuaded, that if any attempt is made to improve the education of the poor, and such an unmanly spirit should guide the resolution of a society or committee for that purpose, it would render the design abortive.”

Ifs Should Made Spirit Purpose Poor Design Guides Resolution Committees

Book:Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted

Source: Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted

“I was an optimist, a great champion of the human spirit. And I lost that for a time. I feel like I've regained a bit of that in the last few years but there was a period of my life in which I had a very low opinion of people in general.”

People Feels Years Humans Lasts Spirit Lost Bits Opinion Periods Lows Champion Optimist Human Spirit

Author:Jude Law

“I adore book-to-film adaptations when they're done well, and I'm more lenient than many readers when it comes to what counts as 'done well.' For me, the most important thing is that the film maintains the spirit of the original book.”

Wells Important Book Done Film Spirit Reader Originals Important Things Adore Adaptation Lenient Film Adaptations

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“Jesus teaches us another way: Go out. Go out and share your testimony, go out and interact with your brothers, go out and share, go out and ask. Become the Word in body as well as spirit.”

Way Wells Body Spirit Asks Jesus Teach Share Brother Testimony Another Way Your Brother

Author:Pope Francis

“I've always moved by my heart. I've moved by the spirit of what I feel was right for me next. I always pray and ask God: 'What's the next thing? What am I supposed to do next?”

Feels Heart Spirit Next Asks Praying My Heart Moved

Author:Ricky Skaggs

“I entered the diocesan seminary. I liked the Dominicans, and I had Dominican friends. But then I chose the Society of Jesus, which I knew well because the seminary was entrusted to the Jesuits. Three things in particular struck me about the Society: the missionary spirit, community and discipline.”

Wells Spirit Three Jesus Community Particular Discipline Missionary Three Things Seminary Jesuit

Book:My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change

Source: My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change

“I sincerely hope I can contribute to the progress there has been in relations between Jews and Catholics since the Second Vatican Council in a spirit of renewed collaboration.”

Has Beens I Can Spirit Progress Relation Catholic Jew Collaboration Council Sincerely

Author:Pope Francis