"We must go beyond the intellect and find recourse in pure intelligence, which is spirit and movement."
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"Not knowing life, how can we know death? Why talk of spirits when you do not understand men?"
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"The Holy Ghost is the Spirit of the Lord, and issues forth from himself, and may properly be called God's minister to execute his will in immensity."
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"It is part of the unceasing human endeavor to prove that the spirit of man can transcend the flaws of his own nature."
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"It must be this rhapsody or none, The rhapsody of things as they are."
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"We divide ourselves up into spirit and human, but essentially we are all a part of the same world."
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"The blessed spirits must be sought within the self which is common to all"
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"Love is a spirit all compact of fire."
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"Pardon, gentles all, the flat unraised spirits that have dared on this unworthy scaffold to bring forth so great an object."
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"I think there are a lot of closet charismatics out there. A lot of [clergy] personally have had their vocations saved because of their experience of Christ and the Holy Spirit through the renewal, but they discovered it wasn't cool [to say so out loud] because it was considered fringe. They got the message from the environment not to talk about it very much. I think the time has come for the closet charismatics to come out."
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"God has seen fit that, since our services are useful to many persons, everyone approves them, but only when they are carried out in the spirit of Our Lord."
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"Americanism is a question of spirit, of conviction and purpose, not creed or birthplaces. The test of our worth is the service we render."
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"The spirit knows that its growth is the real aim of existence."
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"To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse."
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"I say, of the Congress, then, this - that its aims are mistaken, that the spirit in which it proceeds towards their accomplishment is not a spirit of sincerity and whole-heartedness, and that the methods it has chosen are not the right methods, and the leaders in whom it trusts, not the right sort of men to be leaders; - in brief, that we are at present the blind led, if not by the blind, at any rate by the one-eyed."
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"Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit."
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"While still in the cage of your being behold the spirit bird before it flies away."
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"Kill the cow of your ego as quickly as you can, so that your inner spirit can come to life and attain true awareness."
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"There's a hidden sweetness in the stomach's emptiness. We are lutes, no more, no less. If the soundbox is stuffed full of anything, no music.... When you're full of food and drink, Satan sits where your spirit should."
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"Your spirit is mingled with mine what touches you, touches me."
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