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"One should not be deceived: great spirits are skeptics ... Strength, FREEDOM which is born of the strength and overstrength of the spirit, proves itself by skepticism. Men of conviction are not worthy of the least consideration in fundamental questions of value and disvalue. Convictions are prisons."
"Many are the places of worship, but few indeed are those who worship in Spirit and in truth."
"And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught."
"Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest."
"I always adhered to the idea that God is time, or at least that His spirit is."
"Fasting stirs a hunger in your spirit that goes deeper than the temporary you experience in your flesh."
"To worship God in spirit is the service and homage of the heart, and implies fear of God and trust in Him."
"A dog's spirit dies hard."
"Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love."
"God is the food our spirits were designed to feed on."
"A pard-like spirit, beautiful and swift."
"No great spiritual event befalls those who do not summon it."
"Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well."
"No one can rob us of our own soul, and our spirit is already one with the eternal goodness."
"In my opinion it's not about gay or straight or bi, we're attracted to spirits, whatever body they're in. There are other reasons too, but that's how I see it."
"Eternal truth needs a human language that alters with the spirit of the times."
"Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavoury as gross sensuality."
"If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it."
"That which had pleased me once, troubled by spirit."
"God is an ever-present spirit guiding all that happens to a wise and holy end."
