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“I cannot but think that it would be a great step if mankind could familiarise themselves with the idea that they are spirits incorporated for a time in the flesh re spirits incorporated for a time in the flesh.”

Ifs Thinking Ideas Would Be Spirit Steps Mankind Flesh

Author:Catherine Crowe

“A KEY TO BEGIN FORGIVING: Become soft and tender with the person. The first step is to become soft in your mind and spirit. Lower your voice and relax your facial expressions. This reflects honor and humility; and as Proverbs 15:1 suggests, "A gentle answer turns away anger."”

Mind Firsts Persons Spirit Turns Voice Answers Steps Humility Expression Keys Honor Forgiving Gentle Relax Bitterness First Steps Facial Facial Expression

Author:Gary Smalley

“The old notion that the savage is the freest of mankind is the reverse of the truth. He is a slave, not indeed to a visible master, but to the past, to the spirits of his dead forefathers, who haunt his steps from birth to death, and rule him with a rod of iron.”

Past Spirit Steps Mankind Masters Birth Slave Notion Visible Iron Reverse Savages Forefathers

Author:James G. Frazer

“Thy spirit, Independence, let me share! Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.”

Source: Life of Smollett, by R. Anderson. Roderick Random

“Constantine, the Emperor, saw something in the religion of Christ's people which awakened his interest, and now we see him uniting religion to the state and marching up the marble steps of the Emperor's palace, with the church robed in purple. Thus and there was begun the most baneful misalliance that ever fettered and cursed a suffering world... When ... Constantine crowned the union of church and state, the church was stamped with the spirit of the Caesars.”

People World States Spirit Suffering Interest Christ Church Steps Saws Atheism Unions Purple Palaces Church And State Awakened Emperor Marble Cursed Uniting Constantine

Author:George W Truett

“Who can ever be alone for a moment in Italy? Every stone has a voice, every grain of dust seems instinct with spirit from the Past, every step recalls some line, some legend of long-neglected lore.”

Long Moments Seems Past Spirit Voice Lines Steps Stones Instinct Dust Legends Grain Recalls Neglected Every Step

Book:At home and abroad

Source: At home and abroad

“The first step in the elevation of women under all systems of religion is to convince them that the great Spirit of the Universe is in no way responsible for any of these absurdities.”

Way Firsts Spirit Universe Steps Responsible Convince First Steps Absurdity Elevation Great Spirit

Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“I learned a history not then written in books but one passed from generation to generation on the steps of moonlit porches and beside dying fires in one-room houses, a history of great-grandparents and of slavery and of the days following slavery; of those who lived still not free, yet who would not let their spirits be enslaved.”

Stills Book Spirit House Rooms Steps History Fire Written Generations Dying Slavery Following Grandparent Porch Great Grandparents

Book:Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Puffin Modern Classics)

Source: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Puffin Modern Classics)

“We should not forget that when we limp away afflicted through the spirit, it is not to the factory gates or to the corporate steps we pilgrimage. Instead we go to the sea for its salt. We find shade under the sycamores on the great avenues. Or we go to the rivers where water tells us modestly of its own sickness.”

Should Spirit Water Forget Steps Sea Rivers Corporate Sickness Gates Shade Factories Salt Avenues Pilgrimage

Book:How to Paint a Dead Man

Source: How to Paint a Dead Man

“Let Love step down, open the clasped hands, forfeit the thorny crown, retrieve the garment that was whole, body and spirit one, spirit and soul.”

Love Soul Whole Body Hands Spirit Steps Perseverance Crowns Rebirth Garments Forfeit Spirit And Soul

Book:Collected Poems 1912-1944

Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944