#iri

The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire. ↗

— David Brainerd

#comfort #daily #derived #desirable #desire

A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence. ↗

— David Brainerd

#conjectures #designed #discoveries #existence #faint

I don't mind having a reputation as a serious and spiritual person. I think that would be a nice reputation to have. ↗

— Russell Brand

#i #i think #mind #nice #person

I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit. ↗

— Marianne Faithfull

#i think #me #natural #spirit #suppressing

The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she will advance by her own intrinsic motion, without gaining any new degree of velocity, or lessening what she has acquired. ↗

— William Falconer

#acquiring #advance #any #attained #degree

It is sufficient to say, what everybody knows to be true, that the Irish population is Catholic, and that the Protestants, whether of the Episcopalian or Presbyterian Church, or of both united, are a small minority of the Irish people. ↗

— John Bright

#both #catholic #church #episcopalian #everybody

When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the ideal unit. ↗

— Jerry Falwell

#children #godly #husband #ideal #loved

I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting. ↗

— Pierce Brosnan

#catholic #fighting #had #i #irish

I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public. ↗

— James Broughton

#arguing #art #i #never #passion

Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that. ↗

— James Brown

#everybody #family #feed #forget #hard