Best spirit & discovery Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it, except for a brief period; the search after it is rarely rewarded by the discovery, but there is an admirable substitute for it... a contented spirit.”

Earth Happiness Spirit Periods Discovery Roots Plant Enjoyed Substitutes Admirable

Author:Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

“They were the first Westerners. The spirit of the West, the modern spirit, is a Greek discovery; and the place of the Greeks is in the modern world.”

World Firsts Spirit Modern Discovery West Greek Modern World Westerners

Book:The Greek way ; The Roman way

Source: The Greek way ; The Roman way

“a novelist's chief desire is to be as unconscious as possible. He has to induce in himself a state of perpetual lethargy. He wants life to proceed with the utmost quiet and regularity. He wants to see the same faces, to read the same books, to do the same things day after day, month after month, while he is writing, so that nothing may break the illusion in which he is living - so that nothing may disturb or disquiet the mysterious nosings about, feelings around, darts, dashes, and sudden discoveries of that very shy and illusive spirit, the imagination.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“My own experience is that the Bible is dull when I am dull. When I am really alive, and set in upon the text with a tidal pressure of living affinities, it opens, it multiplies discoveries, and reveals depths even faster than I can note them. The worldly spirit shuts the Bible; the Spirit of God makes it a fire, flaming out all meanings and glorious truths.”

I Can Spirit My Own Fire Alive Bible Discovery Pressure Notes Depth Faster Glorious Dull Worldly Affinity Spirit Of God

Author:Horace Bushnell

“For a man solemnly to undertake the interpretation of any portion of Scripture without invocation of God, to be taught and instructed by His Spirit, is a high provocation of him; nor shall I expect the discovery of truth from any one who thus proudly engages in a work so much beyond his ability.”

Men Spirit Ability Taught Discovery Scripture Interpretation Portions Provocation Invocation

Book:Pneumatologia: Or, A Discourse Concerning the Holy Spirit, Wherein an Account is Given of His Name, Nature, Personality, Dispensation, Operations, and Effects; His Whole Work in the Old and New Creation is Explained; and the Doctrine Concerning it Vindicated

Source: Pneumatologia: Or, A Discourse Concerning the Holy Spirit, Wherein an Account is Given of His Name, Nature, Personality, Dispensation, Operations, and Effects; His Whole Work in the Old and New Creation is Explained; and the Doctrine Concerning it Vindicated

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