#spirit

It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is was deemed advisable to exclude from the national government all power to act upon the subject. ↗

— Joseph Story

#advisable #ambition #consciousness #dangers #deemed

My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#along #between #could #find #found

No writer of a portion of the Bible was perfect. It was the direct and miraculous operation of the Holy Spirit that what they wrote is without mistake. ↗

— Walter Lang

#direct #holy #holy spirit #miraculous #mistake

It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#acting #commonplace #crowd #each #far

Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#bring #insights #new #politics #reject

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive. ↗

— Earl Warren

#form #justice #keeps #law #spirit

I was an optimist, a great champion of the human spirit. And I lost that for a time. I feel like I've regained a bit of that in the last few years but there was a period of my life in which I had a very low opinion of people in general. ↗

— Jude Law

#champion #feel #few #general #great

Every day, we've got to do something physical. It's mind, body and spirit. ↗

— Ray Lewis

#day #every #every day #got #mind

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#certain #circumstances #deeds #demand #even

There are more people living in Lower Manhattan now than before the terrorist attacks. That's faith for you. There's such a strong spirit here. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#before #faith #here #living #lower