Celibacy used to offend family-values conservatism; now it offends equally against the opposite spirit.
The early Celtic Christians called the Holy Spirit 'the wild goose.' And the reason why is they knew that you cannot tame him.
I think the Chainsaw remake is very good and captures the spirit of the original film. It's true to the tone of the original, to the point that it's almost a companion piece.
When I met with Anna Chancellor, I knew she was a kindred spirit. We got one another.
O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.
The most cherished and sacred moments of our lives are those filled with the spirit of love.
Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.
I have a childlike spirit.
My most cherished desire is to help our women come out of their routine chores and infuse in them the indefatigable spirit of adventure.
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.
That's the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.
No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite.
What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?
Conformism is essential to the group coherence and 'spirit.' The whole impetus behind tribalism of this kind is conservative: Belonging to the tribe is defined by opposition to other tribes. Our tribe, and its traditional ways, is superior to other tribes because it is ours.
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.
The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.
Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.
Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
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.
