#spirits

Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage. ↗

— Jose Bergaman

#cause #damage #drinking #spirits #spiritual

Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#cannot #heal #only #punishment #spirits

Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the campfire. Stories about God, stories about love. Stories about good spirits and evil spirits. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#around #been #campfire #down #evil

I am well aware that many will say that no one can possibly speak with spirits and angels so long as he lives in the body; and many will say that it is all fancy, others that I relate such things in order to gain credence, and others will make other objections. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#angels #aware #body #credence #fancy

You can't evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time. ↗

— George William Russell

#evoke #great #plums #same #spirits

Angels are spirits, flames of fire; they are higher than man, they have wider connections. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#connections #fire #flames #higher #man

Man was so created by the Lord as to be able while living in the body to speak with spirits and angels, as in fact was done in the most ancient times; for, being a spirit clothed with a body, he is one with them. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#ancient #ancient times #angels #being #body

Even free spirits had to the face the music sometime. ↗

— Kathleen Long

#love

Those places where sadness and misery abound are favoured settings for stories of ghosts and apparitions. Calcutta has countless such stories hidden in its darkness, stories that nobody wants to admit they believe but which nevertheless survive in the memory of generations as the only chronicle of the past. It is as if the people who inhabit the streets, inspired by some mysterious wisdom, relalise that the true history of Calcutta has always been written in the invisible tales of its spirits and unspoken curses. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#calcutta #chronicle-of-the-past #darkness #generations #ghosts

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#credit #dressed #good #man #may