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“These early Saints were indeed homeless, but they were not hopeless. Their hearts were broken, but their spirits were strong. They had learned a profound and important lesson. They had learned that hope, with its attendant blessings of peace and joy, does not depend upon circumstance. They had discovered that the true source of hope is faith—faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and in His infinite Atonement, the one sure foundation upon which to build our lives.”

“A woman in agony of spirit might turn her head just so; a man in deep humiliation probably would wring his hands in such a way. From straws like these, drawn from completely different sources, the fabric of a character may be built.”

Men Way May Different Character Hands Might Spirit Turns Source Built Agony Fabric Humiliation Straws

Book:The Fabric of Memory

Source: The Fabric of Memory

“Before one can correctly understand the work of the Holy Spirit, he must first of all know the Spirit himself. A frequent source of error and fanaticism about the work of the Holy Spirit is the attempt to study and understand His work without, first of all, coming to know Him as a person.”

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Book:THE PERSON AND WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

Source: THE PERSON AND WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

“The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it constitutes the true source of national vigour and strength. Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates”

Self Helping Spirit Individual Growth Effects Self Help Source Roots Genuine Genuine Smiles

Book:Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

“Love is the grand motive of the plan of salvation; it is the source of happiness, the ever-renewing spring of healing, the precious fountain of hope. As we extend our hands and hearts toward others in Christlike love, something wonderful happens to us. Our own spirits become healed, more refined, and stronger. We become happier, more peaceful, and more receptive to the whisperings of the Holy Spirit.”

“But I would like to think for a moment about a man who in the morning teaches his students that a false attribution of a Watteau drawing or an inaccurate transcription of a fourteenth-century epigraph is a sin against the spirit and in the afternoon or evening transmits to the agents of Soviet intelligence classified, perhaps vital information given to him in sworn trust by his countrymen and intimate colleagues. What are the sources of such scission? How does the spirit mask itself?”

Source: George Steiner: A Reader

“For although there is not a single aspect of European growth in which the decisive influence of Islamic culture is not traceable, nowhere is it so clear and momentous as in the genesis of that power which constitutes the permanent distinctive force of the modern world, and the supreme source of its victory, natural science and the scientific spirit.”

World Spirit Culture Force Growth Natural Clear Influence Modern Source Victory Aspect Supreme Permanent Islamic Modern World Genesis Distinctive Natural Science Islamic Culture

Author:Robert Briffault

“Affirm the body, beautiful and whole, The earth-expression of immortal soul. Affirm the mind, the messenger of the hour, To speed between thee and the source of power. Affirm the spirit, the Eternal I - Of this great trinity no part deny.”

Mind Soul Whole Body Earth Beautiful Spirit Hours Expression Source Eternal Deny Speed Thee Immortal Messengers Trinity Immortal Soul

Author:Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons.”

People Believe Humans Reason Happens Spirit Human Beings Creativity Divine Source Ancient Rome Greece Ancient Rome Ancient Greece

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“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

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.”

Art Beautiful Joy Spirit Community Source Profit Mysterious Realms Beautiful Things Art And Science

Author:Albert Einstein

“The only way a work of art can become great is for one to acknowledge that it doesn't belong to anybody. The greatness is in constantly giving back, coming to an acknowledgment of the source. Look back to the source of any individual, any process, any set of materials. If the individual personality can relinquish its insistence on concepts like this is mine, I did it, this is original, nobody else has done it, it goes straight for greatness or the essential spirit.”

“A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit.”

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Author:Graham Greene

“Meditation is the progressive quieting of our mind, until we reach the source of thought, which in wisdom traditions are the realm of our soul and spirit. In this domain of awareness there is infinite creativity, synchronicity, the power of intention, and freedom from limitations.”

Mind Soul Spirit Creativity Meditation Awareness Source Tradition Infinite Intention Limitation Realms Progressive Domain Synchronicity Power Of Intention

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources.”

Spirit Source Madness Profit Badness

Author:Aristotle

“To higher or lower ends, they [the majority of mankind] move too often with something of a sad countenance, with hurried and ignoble gait, becoming, unconsciously, something like thorns, in their anxiety to bear grapes; it being possible for people, in the pursuit of even great ends, to become themselves thin and impoverished in spirit and temper, thus diminishing the sum of perfection in the world, at its very sources.”

People World Ends Moving Spirit Mankind Source Bears Becoming Higher Anxiety Ambition Perfection Majority Pursuit Temper Grapes Thorns Countenance Ignoble Gait

Book:The Works of Walter Pater

Source: The Works of Walter Pater