Best spirit & passion Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The man who has struggled bravely with the passions of the body, has fought ably against unclean spirits, and has expelled from his soul the conceptual images they provoke, should pray for a pure heart to be given him and for a spirit of integrity to be renewed within him (cf. Ps. 51:10). In other words, he should pray that by grace he may be completely emptied of evil thoughts and filled with divine thoughts, so that he may become a spiritual world of God, splendid and vast, wrought from moral, natural and theological forms of contemplation.”

“It's often said that God works in mysterious ways. You have to really think about what He's trying to do. You can't be lazy and believe in God; He doesn't make it that easy. It takes spirit and faith and passion to really believe. Like most things worthwhile in life, you get back what you put into it. Only with faith, you get back a lot more.”

Thinking Way Trying Believe Said Spirit Passion Easy Mysterious Lazy Get Back Believe In God Worthwhile God Works In Mysterious Ways Mysterious Ways

Book:The Christmas Train

Source: The Christmas Train

“Passion is overcome only by him who has won through stillness of spirit the perfect vision; it comes through the contentment that is regardless of the world.”

World Spirit Passion Perfect Silence Vision Overcoming Contentment Stillness

Author:Shantideva

“Celebrations infuse life with passion and purpose. They summon the human spirit.”

Humans Spirit Purpose Passion Celebration Human Spirit

Book:Corporate Celebration: Play, Purpose, and Profit at Work

Source: Corporate Celebration: Play, Purpose, and Profit at Work

“It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet. They become proofs of original genius only as far as they are modified by a predominant passion; or by associated thoughts or images awakened by that passion; or when they have the effect of reducing multitude to unity, or succession to an instant; or lastly, when a human and intellectual life is transferred to them from the poet's spirit.”

Source: Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions

“Quelque e tendue d'esprit que l'on ait, l'on n'est capable que d'une grande passion. However vast a man's spirit, he is only capable of one great passion.”

Men Spirit Passion Capable Great Passion

Author:Blaise Pascal

“Part of my passion for all things Christmas is seeing my holiday stuff again every December. I suppose I do have more than most folks, so the reunion each winter keeps me in the holiday spirit for a full year. And there are always a few pieces out in my house whatever the month.”

Years Spirit Passion House Stuff Pieces Seeing Months All Things Winter Folks Christmas Holiday My Passion December Reunion Holiday Spirit

Book:Christmas with Mary Engelbreit: The Best Christmas Ever

Source: Christmas with Mary Engelbreit: The Best Christmas Ever

“Pain is a coward. He flees when faced by the irresistible power of the will-to-live, which is more strongly rooted in the flesh than the intensest passion is rooted in the spirit.”

Pain Spirit Passion Flesh Coward Rooted Irresistible Will To Live

Book:Stories and Legends

Source: Stories and Legends

“To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. ... While all melts under our feet, we may well grasp at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to knowledge that seems by a lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange colours, and curious odours, or work of the artist's hands, or the face of one's friend.”

Source: The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry

“Remember that every guilty compliance with the humors of the world, every sinful indulgence of our own passions, is laying up cares and fears for the hour of darkness; and that the remembrance of ill-spent time will strew our sick-bed with thorns, and rack our sinking spirits with despair.”

World Care Remember Spirit Passion Hours Sin Darkness Bed Despair Sick Ill Guilty Remembrance Indulgence Thorns Sinking Compliance Racks

Author:Reginald Heber

“We exhort the compromisers to open their hearts to truth, to free themselves of their wretched and blind circumspection, of their intellectual arrogance, and of the servile fear which dries up their souls and paralyzes their movements. Let us therefore trust the eternal Spirit which destroys and annihilates only because it is the unfathomable and eternal source of all life. The passion for destruction is a creative passion, too!”

Heart Soul Spirit Passion Creative Movement Source Eternal Intellectual Destruction Blind Arrogance Wretched Unfathomable Circumspection Creative Passion Intellectual Arrogance

Author:Mikhail Bakunin

“Anything that can hurt the convictions of another, particularly religious convictions, must be avoided. Freedom of expression must be exercised in a spirit of responsibility. I condemn all manifest provocation that might dangerously fan passions.”

Might Spirit Passion Hurt Religious Responsibility Fans Expression Conviction Manifest Avoided Freedom Of Expression Provocation

Author:Jacques Chirac

“Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.”

Love Life Inspirational Romance Spirit Desire Passion Marriage Wings Deeds Desire Love

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Revival is the Spirit's passion within the believer to know and to obey the total will of God.”

Knows Spirit Passion Believer Gods Will Revival

Author:Leonard Ravenhill

“The passion of vanity has its own depths in the spirit, and is powerfully militant.”

Spirit Passion Depth Vanity Militant

Book:The cat jumps, and other stories

Source: The cat jumps, and other stories

“Superstition, in all times and among all nations, is the fear of a spirit whose passions are those of a man, whose acts are the acts of a man; who is present in some places, not in others; who makes no places holy and not others; who is kind to one person, unkind to another; who is pleased or angry according to the degree of attention you pay him, or praise you refuse to him; who is hostile generally to human pleasure, but may be bribed by sacrifice of a part of that pleasure into permitting the rest. This, whatever form of faith it colors, is the essence of superstition.”

Source: The Religion of Ruskin: The Life and Works of John Ruskin; a Biographical and Anthological Study

“I was a huge fan of video games; I wanted to write something, and I saw the tools at my fingertips to upload a video to my audience, and thats why Im here today. I think that freedom and the lack of gatekeepers, combined with peoples passion, is what really the true spirit of Internet geekdom is about.”

Thinking Writing Today Wanted Spirit Passion Games Audience Saws Fans Huge Internet Tools Video Fingertips Gatekeepers

Author:Felicia Day

“Creativity is a voracious animal. It needs to be fed regularly. If you leave it untended for too long, you run the risk of starving your passion and diminishing your spirit.”

Ifs Needs Long Running Spirit Passion Animal Creativity Risk Feds Starving

Author:Nancy Lam

“In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But theworks of malice and injustice are quite in another style. They are finished with a bold, masterly hand; touched as they are with the spirit of those vehement passions that call forth all our energies, whenever we oppress and persecute.”

Hands Spirit Passion Energy Too Much Style Cold All Things Injustice Finished Touched Malice Doing Good Sluggish Vehement

Book:The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

Source: The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

“There is no passion more dominant and instinctive in the human spirit than the need of the country to which one belongs.... The time comes when nothing in the world is so important as a breath of one's own particular climate. If it were one's last penny it would be used for that return passage.”

Ifs World Needs Humans Important Country Would Be Lasts Used Spirit Passion Particular Return Breaths Climate Nationalism Passages Dominant Human Spirit Pennies Homesickness

Book:Three Lives

Source: Three Lives

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