#spirit

To see this place would truly be worth a trip to India in itself, and from the spirit of the religion that lived here one can learn more in an hour of viewing than from all the books ever written. ↗

— Rudolf Otto

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All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit. ↗

— John Owen

#helpless #helps #leave #mortification #must

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance. ↗

— Gilbert Parker

#foolish #haunt #memory #our #refuge

The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation. ↗

— Walter Pater

#culture #eager #human #human spirit #life

Golf is the most useless outdoor game ever devised to waste the time and try the spirit of man. ↗

— Westbrook Pegler

#ever #game #golf #man #most

I'm aware that people I have loved and have died and are in the spirit world looking after me. ↗

— Princess Diana

#aware #died #i #looking #loved

When younger, I was thin as a rail. As I've grown older, I've put on weight. I have continued to love myself in all those roles. Part of my spirituality, I always tell people, is to accept yourself for who you are. ↗

— Troy Perry

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They who grasp the world, The Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, Must pay with deepest misery of spirit, Atoning unto God for a brief brightness. ↗

— Stephen Phillips

#brightness #deepest #glory #god #grasp

They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not. ↗

— Katherine Anne Porter

#did #dissipation #face #gave #give

To me, there is spirit in a reed. It's a living thing, a weed, really, and it does contain spirit of a sort. It's really an ancient vibration. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#contain #does #living #living thing #me