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What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

Quotes by John Updike

Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.

Quotes by John Ruskin

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

Quotes by John Owen

By one Spirit we are all baptised into one body.

Quotes by John Nelson Darby

The presence of the Holy Spirit is the keystone of all our hopes.

Quotes by John Nelson Darby

A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.

John Milton

This kind of prelude was succeeded by the concerto itself which he executed with a degree of spirit and firmness that no one has ever pretended to equal.

Quotes by John Hawkins

The persecuting spirit has its origin... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct.

Quotes by John Fiske

Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.

Quotes by John Denham

There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.

Quotes by John Calvin

The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.

Quotes by John Burroughs

Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.

Quotes by Johann Georg Hamann

The Spirit of the Lord is with them that fear him.

Quotes by Joanna Southcott

All TV can do is capture the spirit of a book because the medium is so utterly different. But I'm very grateful for the readers that Masterpiece Theatre has undoubtedly brought me.

Quotes by Joanna Trollope

The spirit of non-conformity is as prevalent now in my part of west Yorkshire as it was in the time of my two immediate predecessors, Mike Wood and Elizabeth Peacock.

Quotes by Jo Cox

I believe strongly in inspiration, inspiration literally meaning 'full of the spirit.' I do believe that it comes to you.

Quotes by Jimmy Webb

The Minnesota spirit of compassion and help for people in need has moved countless Minnesotans to step forward to provide relief for the survivors of Hurricane Katrina.

Quotes by Jim Ramstad

I got really hooked on this riff in the middle of this song called 'Minor Miracles' by my friend Eric Johnson from Fruit Bats. I got the tracks for that from him, and that turned into 'Here in Spirit.'

Quotes by Jim James

My whole goal is to keep my spirit intact. If that doesn't happen, none of this is worth it.

Quotes by Jewel

Biblical myth is as integral to the spirit of the South as the heat and humidity.

Quotes by Jesmyn Ward

We are 100 percent responsible for the pursuit of holiness, but at the same time we are 100 percent dependent upon the Holy Spirit to enable us in that pursuit. The pursuit of holiness is not a pull-yourself-up-by-your-own-bootstraps approach to the Christian life.

Quotes by Jerry Bridges

Pope John Paul II brought hope to all corners of the world, to people of all faiths and backgrounds, with his powerful belief in the human spirit.

Quotes by Jerry Costello

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.

Quotes by Jeremy Taylor

Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit.

Quotes by Jeremy Taylor

As with most physical activity, yoga helps boost your immune system. However, it also stretches and strengthens your body simultaneously, while also balancing your mind and spirit. It benefits the whole human.

Quotes by Jennifer Nettles

What they're not doing is marketing the Dead Kennedys in the spirit of what the band stood for.

Quotes by Jello Biafra

I declare I would rather be a kitten and cry, 'Mew!' than live as I see many of my female acquaintances do, tearing each other's characters to pieces, and wearing out their lives in vanity and vexation of spirit.

Quotes by Jane Welsh Carlyle

A lot of the people of the Midwest came from the Northeast. We're of the same stock. Yet something must have happened when we crossed the Ohio River Valley because I have sensed that there's more of an openness and flexibility of spirit out West.

Quotes by Jane Hamilton

Kids love watching adults act like children. It's that spirit they can relate to.

Quotes by James Roday

We unavoidably stand in so many unholy places and are subjected to so much that is vulgar, profane, and destructive of the Spirit of the Lord that I encourage our Saints all over the world, wherever possible, to strive to stand more often in holy places.

Quotes by James E. Faust

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!

Quotes by James Connolly

You can't break my spirit, it's my dreams you take.

Quotes by James Blunt

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

Quotes by James Baldwin

A shepherd, in whom the spirit of God works, is more highly esteemed before God than the wisest and most potent in self-wit, without the divine dominion.

Quotes by Jakob Bohme

A leader who is a benevolent dictator is actually a democrat by spirit.

Quotes by Jaiprakash Gaur

The Holy Spirit alone can do this, the Holy Spirit alone can establish this link with one's neighbor.

Quotes by Jacques Ellul

What ultimately makes 'The Wire' uplifting amid the heartbreak it conveys is its embodiment of a spirit that Barack Obama calls 'the audacity of hope.' It is filled with characters who should quit but don't, not only the boys themselves but teachers, cops, ex-cops, and ex-cons who lose their hearts to them.

Quotes by Jacob Weisberg

Saint Joseph's still is among the smaller-enrollment institutions with a big-time basketball program. The Jesuits still offer the same high-quality education. St. Joe's students and alumni are as supportive as ever, and their spirit is unquenchable.

Quotes by Jack Ramsay

The average person is gregarious; there is something in the spirit of the crowd that adds to the enjoyment of entertainment.

Quotes by Ivor Novello

The city of Atlanta has always had a good spirit.

Quotes by Ivan Allen

As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.

Quotes by Ira Sachs

I am an immigrant from Mexico. I came to the United States looking for a landscape where I could explore ideas freely and to test my entrepreneurial spirit.

Quotes by Ilan Stavans

The Prophet Muhammad himself sought to erase any distinctions between the message he taught and that taught by Jesus, who he called God's 'spirit and word.'

Quotes by Ibrahim Hooper

The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.

Quotes by Ida B. Wells

The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.

Quotes by Ida B. Wells

First, to be able to love, then to learn that body and spirit are one.

Quotes by Hugo von Hofmannsthal

The 'spirit of Davos' has definitely achieved a thing or two.

Quotes by Hubert Burda

There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.

Quotes by Hubert H. Humphrey

Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.

Quotes by Howard Mumford Jones

The spirit world doesn't admit to communicating with me, so it's fairly even.

Quotes by Howard Nemerov

But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.

Homer

I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence and just about everything that goes along with Christmas.

Quotes by Hillary Scott

In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.

Quotes by Hermann Hesse

The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves.

Quotes by Herbert Read

It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz.

Quotes by Herbie Hancock

The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.

Quotes by Herbie Hancock

The spirit of liberalism is to create free men; it is not the regimentation of men.

Quotes by Herbert Hoover

Garfield is my spirit animal.

Quotes by Henry Zebrowski

I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit.

Quotes by Herb Alpert

The same aspirations to celebrate and uplift the spirit that drove the Egyptians to build the pyramids are still driving us. The things we're doing differ only in magnitude.

Quotes by Henry Petroski

It is the same with revolution; so long as the proper spirit is spreading amongst our young men, we are satisfied that it spreads without bombast or parade.

Quotes by Henry Lawson

Do no dishonour to the earth least you dishonour the spirit of man.

Quotes by Henry Beston

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.

Quotes by Henrik Ibsen

If we have faith in Jesus Christ, the hardest as well as the easiest times in life can be a blessing. In all conditions, we can choose the right with the guidance of the Spirit. We have the gospel of Jesus Christ to shape and guide our lives if we choose it.

Quotes by Henry B. Eyring

Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.

Quotes by Henri Bergson

The man who can articulate the movements of his inner life need no longer be a victim of himself, but is able slowly and consistently to remove the obstacles that prevent the spirit from entering.

Quotes by Henri Nouwen

In the life of the spirit there is no ending that is not a beginning.

Quotes by Henrietta Szold

Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.

Quotes by Helena Rubinstein

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

Helen Keller

In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.

Quotes by Heinrich Heine

To my mind, the main reason for the Depression in the United States as a whole, is the bondage of debt and the spirit of speculation among the people.

Quotes by Heber J. Grant

There is no labor in which we engage but that there is a spirit telling us, 'Oh, you do not need to do that; it is a waste of time, and you ought to be engaged in something else.'

Quotes by Heber J. Grant

This generosity that has been offered to the United States says very much about the Venezuelan spirit.

Quotes by Harry Belafonte

I believe things happen that can't be explained, but so many people seem intent on explaining them. Everyone has an answer for them. Either aliens or things from the spirit world.

Quotes by Harold Ramis

Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.

Quotes by Hans Hofmann

I can't think of any shows I've watched about teenagers that has the same spirit that 'Skins' has, the same honesty about it.

Quotes by Hannah Murray

The most frightening pages of history are those which reveal how easily conditions making a desert of the human spirit may come into existence, with the oozings away of incentive and kindliness in our natural social structure.

Quotes by Haniel Long

The new independent spirit at Warner Music is a perfect fit for a stand-alone label like Maverick.

Quotes by Guy Oseary

May the spirit of devotion to duty which inspires us always dominate this Committee's conferences!

Quotes by Gustav Krupp

The spirit can assert itself only through the medium of clear form.

Quotes by Gustav Mahler

No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.

Quotes by Grover Cleveland

They were very generous with me. Everybody was willing to talk about their particular accident, what they had to deal with and how they got back in touch with their competitors' spirit.

Quotes by Gregory Hines

A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit.

Quotes by Graham Greene

Soul is just that inner spirit. I use that inner spirit for whatever it is I do.

Quotes by Gladys Knight

If anybody in the business can capture the spirit of 'Pony,' it would have to be Rihanna.

Quotes by Ginuwine

Every soul and spirit has some degree of continuity with the universal spirit, which is recognized to be located not only where the individual soul lives and perceives, but also to be spread out everywhere in its essence and substance, as many Platonists and Pythagoreans have taught.

Quotes by Giordano Bruno

Although one soul lives in the whole body, and all the body's members are controlled by one soul, still the whole body and the whole soul and the parts of the universe are vivified by a certain total spirit.

Quotes by Giordano Bruno

He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the one being for him in all the world: at this altar he would light a lamp of devotion, and keep it burning forever.

Quotes by Gilbert Parker

Yoga has allowed me to bring my complete spirit together, which allows me to do less, which is more.

Quotes by Giancarlo Esposito

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.

Quotes by George Washington

Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality.

Quotes by George William Russell

The relation of landlord and tenant is not an ideal one, but any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality.

Quotes by George William Russell

My early wounds were the English school system among other things. It wasn't merely the discipline, it was the ways in which boys got what was called the school spirit.

Quotes by George Woodcock

Our body is the temple of our spirit.

Quotes by George W. Romney

Also there is a similitude of a Trinity shining in the body, soul and spirit.

Quotes by George Ripley

It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer.

Quotes by George Muller

It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.

Quotes by George Herbert

Be still and cool in thine own mind and spirit.

Quotes by George Fox

We are too quick to put labels on things. It is my profession. I get up and paint. Everyone wants to put a label on it, but I am a free spirit, so I fight against that.

Quotes by Geoffrey Holder

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.

Quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.

Quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg

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