| But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. -- Jesus Christ |
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Christ, JesusEra:
-6 |
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| There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit. -- Napoleon Bonaparte |
| Author:
Napoleon IEra:
1769 |
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| God is a reality of spirit...He cannot...be conceived as an object, not even as the very highest object. God is not to be found in the world of objects. -- Nicholas Berdyaev |
| Author:
Berdyaev, NicholasEra:
1874 |
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| That which exists through itself is called The Eternal. The Eternal has neither name nor shape. It is the one essence, the one primal spirit. Essence and life cannot be seen. They are contained in the light of heaven. The light of heaven cannot be seen. It is contained in the two eyes. -- Lu Yen |
| Author:
Yen, LuEra:
800 |
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| Know thou the self (spirit) as riding in a chariot, The body as the chariot. Know thou the intellect as the chariot-driver, And the mind as the reins. The senses, they say, are the horses; The objects of sense, what they range over. The self combined with senses and mind Wise men call "the enjoyer." -- Upanishads |
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UpanishadsEra:
-800 |
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| The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool. -- The Hitopadesa |
| Author:
Hitopadesa, TheEra:
600 |
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| Let the wind of the spirit blow between your shores. The great oaks in the forest do not grow in each other's shade. -- Kahlil Gibran |
| Author:
Gibran, KahlilEra:
1883 |
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| The Breath becomes a stone; the stone, a plant; the plant, an animal; the animal, a man; the man, a spirit; and the spirit, a god. -- Kabbalah |
| Author:
KabbalahEra:
-1200 |
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| The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc. -- Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan |
| Author:
Khan, Pir Vilayat InayatEra:
1916 |
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| Richer is one hour of repentance and good works in this world than all of life of the world to come; and richer is one hour's calm of spirit in the world to come than all of life of this world. -- The Talmud |
| Author:
Talmud, TheEra:
-500 |
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| Adversity breaks the inferior man's will but only bends the superior man's spirit. Outward influence is denied the great man, who accordingly uses words sparingly but retains his central position. -- I Ching |
| Author:
Ching, IEra:
-1150 |
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| So she poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Author:
Hawthorne, NathanielEra:
1804 |
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| My patience to his fury, and am arm'd to suffer, with a quietness of spirit, the very tyranny and rage of his. -- William Shakespeare |
| Author:
Shakespeare, WilliamEra:
1564 |
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| What is thought? It is not Matter, nor spirit. It is not a Thing; but a Power and Force. I make upon a paper certain conventional marks, that represent that Thought. There is no Power or Virtue in the marks I write, but only in the Thought which they tell to others. I die, but the Thought still lives. It is a Power. The fact that Thought continues to exist an instant, after it makes its appearance in the soul, proves it immortal: for there is nothing conceivable that can destroy it. The spoken words, being mere sounds, may vanish into thin air, and the written ones,mere marks, be burned, erased, destroyed: but the THOUGHT itself lives still, and must live on forever. -- Albert Pike |
| Author:
Pike, AlbertEra:
1809 |
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| In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason. -- Heinrich Heine |
| Author:
Heine, HeinrichEra:
1797 |
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| From of old the things that have acquired unity are these: Heaven by unity has become clear; Earth by unity has become steady; The spirit by unity has become spiritual; The Valley by unity has become full; All things by unity have come into existence. -- Lao-Tzu |
| Author:
Lao-TzuEra:
-604 |
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| Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being. -- Sigmund Freud |
| Author:
Freud, SigmundEra:
1856 |
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| I Thy God am the Light and the Mind which were before substance was divided from spirit and darkness from Light. -- The Divine Pymander |
| Author:
Divine Pymander, TheEra:
-2500 |
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| True thoughts have duration in themselves. If the thoughts endure, the seed is enduring; if the seed endures, the energy endures; if the energy endures, then will the spirit endure. The spirit is thought; thought is the heart; the heart is the fire; the fire is the Elixir. -- Lu Yen |
| Author:
Yen, LuEra:
800 |
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| If the thoughts are absolutely tranquil the heavenly heart can be seen. The heavenly heart lies between sun and moon (i.e. between the two eyes). It is the home of the inner light. To make light circulate is the deepest and most wonderful secret. The light is easy to move, but difficult to fix. If it is made to circulate long enought, then it crystallizes itself; that is the natural spirit body... -- Lu Yen |
| Author:
Yen, LuEra:
800 |
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| Love in its essence is spiritual fire. -- Swedenborg |
| Author:
SwedenborgEra:
1688 |
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| The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns. -- Kabbalah |
| Author:
KabbalahEra:
-1200 |
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| Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong. -- Harriet Henry Ward Beecher Stowe |
| Author:
Stowe, Harriet Ward BeecherEra:
1811 |
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| As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body. -- Upanishads |
| Author:
UpanishadsEra:
-800 |
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| A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. -- John Milton |
| Author:
Milton, JohnEra:
1608 |
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| The seven deadly sins...Food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes,respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted. -- George Bernard Shaw |
| Author:
Shaw, George BernardEra:
1856 |
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| If a man possesses a repentant spirit his sins will disappear, but if he has an unrepentant spirit his sins will continue and condemn him for their sake forever. -- Buddha |
| Author:
BuddhaEra:
-568 |
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| Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, Although they come and go by day, Are like the smith's bellows: They take breath but are not alive. -- Nagarjuna |
| Author:
NagarjunaEra:
100 |
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| The dirty work at political conventions is almost always done in the grim hours between midnight and dawn. Hangmen and politicians work best when the human spirit is at its lowest ebb. -- Russell Baker |
| Author:
Baker, RussellEra:
1925 |
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| Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
| Author:
Goethe, Johann VonEra:
1749 |
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| Misdirected life force is the activity in disease process. Disease has no energy save what it borrows from the life of the organism. It is by adjusting the life force that healing must be brought about, and it is the sun as transformer and distributor of primal spiritual energy that must be utilized in this process, for life and the sun are so intimately connected. -- Kabbalah |
| Author:
KabbalahEra:
-1200 |
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