"Every truth without exception- and whoever may utter it- is from the Holy Spirit."
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"All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit."
"It is by desiring to grow in love that we receive the Holy Spirit, and the thirst for more charity is the effect of this more abundant reception."
"An animal so poor in spirit that he won't even fight on his own behalf is already an evolutionary dead end; the best he can do for his breed is to crawl off and die, and not pass on his defective genes."
"Spirit is the third, yet in such a way that one can speak of a synthesis only when the spirit is posited."
"I was there in the beginning and I was the spirit of love."
"Don't make the body do what the spirit does best, and don't put a big load on the spirit that the body could easily carry."
"Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don't give your heart to anything, but the love of those whose hearts are glad."
"Whomsoever you follow, howsoever great, see to it that you follow the spirit of the master and not imitate him mechanically."
"At the end of the day we're all spirits having a physical experience. That really comes from my relationship with Islam because it just makes me really conscious of my action."
"At the end of the day we're all spirits having a physical experience."
"It is possible for the human spirit to win after all."
"The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger."
"Love is the spirit of life, and makes all things live."
"He who marries the spirit of the age soon becomes a widower."
"Where the most beautiful wild flowers grow, there mans spirit is fed and poets grow."
"The earth I tread on is not a dead inert mass. It is a body, has a spirit; is organic and fluid to the influence of its spirit and to whatever particle of the spirit is in me."
"Though my life is low, if my spirit looks upward habitually at an elevated angle, it is as if it were redeemed. When the desire to be better than we are is really sincere we are instantly elevated, and so far better already."
"How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?"
"Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit."