#iri

I'm not a chauvinist. I'm a universalist. I think that God imploded, like a spiritual big bang, to launch the eight civilizations that make up recorded history and the religions in those civilizations. ↗

— Huston Smith

#big #big bang #civilizations #eight #god

There is no such thing as immaterial matter. All spirit is matter, but is more fine or pure, and can only be discerned by purer eyes. We cannot see it, but when our bodies are purified, we shall see that it is all matter. ↗

— Joseph Smith, Jr.

#cannot #discerned #eyes #fine #immaterial

After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits. ↗

— Catherine Helen Spence

#break #break up #father #health #his

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#believe #create #holy #more #repent

I had four or five years in school training as a soprano. I fell into pop singing because of economics. I got out of high school and had to go work, and they weren't hiring opera singers. ↗

— Jo Stafford

#economics #fell #five #four #go

Also, because schools must teach the spirit of goodwill, the habit of helping others around you, every class should have this rule: students, if you bring software to class you may not keep it for yourself. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#around #because #bring #class #every

I'm pretty spiritual; I believe a lot in the spirit of man. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#i #i believe #lot #man #pretty

People think retiring is fun. Well, maybe, but if you have a certain kind of fire inside, there is no end in sight. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#end #fire #fun #inside #kind

A Christian has no right being in a fight unless it's a spiritual fight. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#christian #fight #right #spiritual #unless

In our friendships we have to be wise that we choose godly people to be our friends. Somebody might say, well does that mean that you should never have a lost person as your friend? No, I wouldn't say that. But you can't have the same intimacy with a lost person that you can with a godly person in whom the Holy Spirit is living. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#does #friend #friends #friendships #godly