#spirit

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#been #cheer #go #good #how

The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation. ↗

— Constantin Stanislavski

#any #creation #creativeness #factor #feelings

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#because #direct #fear #full #god

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#equal #her #man #nature #never

In order to be an image of God, the spirit must turn to what is eternal, hold it in spirit, keep it in memory, and by loving it, embrace it in the will. ↗

— Edith Stein

#eternal #god #hold #image #keep

I'd forgotten I'd done the anime called Spirited Away, the English version of a Japanese film. ↗

— David Ogden Stiers

#away #called #done #english #film

When the late Bishop was appointed, about thirty-two years ago, to diffuse the light of the Gospel through this extensive portion of His Majesty's dominions, it was even a greater spiritual, than a natural wilderness. ↗

— John Strachan

#ago #appointed #bishop #diffuse #dominions

In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#also #appears #body #everyone #face

One thing I've learned in life is that I can speak for myself, that I can fight my own battles. I don't like anyone telling me how I'm supposed to feel or think or what I'm supposed to say. ↗

— Hope Solo

#free-spirited #individuality #leadership #outspoken #resiliency

Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#atheist #believes #catholicism #grandeur #great