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“Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.”

Mind Spirit Culture Study Conditions Becoming Circumstances Perfection Inward Becoming Something

Author:Matthew Arnold

“To understand a Bible text it takes an act of the Holy Spirit equal to the act that inspired the text in the first place. A revelation of the Holy Spirit in one glorious flash of inward illumination would teach you more of Jesus than five years in a theological seminary.”

Years Firsts Spirit Religion Jesus Christianity Teach Five Holy Equal Inspired Holy Spirit Glorious Revelations Five Years Flash Inward Illumination Theological Seminary

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“There is an inward state of the heart which makes truth credible the moment it is stated. It is credible to some men because of what they are. Love is credible to a loving heart; purity is credible to a pure mind; life is credible to a spirit in which life beats strongly it is incredible to other men.”

Men Mind Heart States Moments Truth Life Is Spirit Love Is Pure Beats Incredibles Purity Inward Credible

Book:Sermons Preached at Brighton

Source: Sermons Preached at Brighton

“Try and travel with the eyes of the spirit wide open, and not too much factual information. To tune in, without reverence, idly -- but with real inward attention. It is to be had for the feeling, that mysterious sense of rapport, of identity with the ground. You can extract the essence of a place once you know how. If you just get as still as a needle you'll be there.”

Ifs Knows Trying Stills Real Feelings Eye Spirit Attention Know How Too Much Information Identity Travel Essence Wide Mysterious Tunes Reverence Inward Needles Factual Rapport

Author:Lawrence Durrell

“A true and safe leader is likely to be one who has no desire to lead, but is forced into a position by the inward pressure of the Holy Spirit and the press of [circumstances]... The man who is ambitious to lead is disqualified as a leader. The true leader will have no desire to lord it over God's heritage, but will be humble, gentle, self-sacrificing and altogether ready to follow when the Spirit chooses another to lead.”

Men Self Spirit Desire Leader Lord Sacrifice Position He Man Ready Circumstances Holy Safe Pressure Presses Humble Gentle Holy Spirit Heritage Ambitious Inward Be Humble True Leader

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“The culture and educational system of the contemporary West are based almost exclusively upon the training of the reasoning brain and, to a lesser degree, of the aesthetic emotions. Most of us have forgotten that we are not only brain and will, senses and feelings; we are also spirit. Modern man has for the most part lost touch with the truest and highest aspect of himself; and the result of this inward alienation can be seen all too plainly in his restlessness, his lack of identity and his loss of hope.”

“The precept to worship God 'in spirit and in truth' recommand to worship him as an inward and moral force, without physical attributes and with no relation to fears and egoist wishes.”

Spirit Force Wish Moral Worship Relation Attributes Inward Worship God

Author:African Spir

“There is a vast difference between the outward clothing of the Spirit's power and the inward filling of the Spirit's life. In the first, despite the power, the hidden man of the heart may remain unchanged. In the latter, that monster is dealt with.”

Men Firsts Heart May Spirit Differences Monsters Despite Latter Clothings Inward Filling

Book:The Gene Edwards Collection: A Tale of Three Kings / The Prisoner in the Third Cell / The Divine Romance

Source: The Gene Edwards Collection: A Tale of Three Kings / The Prisoner in the Third Cell / The Divine Romance

“Who is the happy Warrior? Who is he That every man in arms should wish to be? It is the generous spirit, who, when brought Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought Upon the plan that pleased his boyish thought: Whose high endeavors are an inward light That makes the path before him always bright: Who, with a natural instinct to discern What knowledge can perform, is diligent to learn; And in himself posses his own desire”