We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.
Among the many arguments to be made against cultural revolutions is that they are monotonous in spirit and monomaniacal in intention.
I think that's a part of what motivates me in my teaching and writing. Once the Gospel feels mainstream and becomes a nicely organized, orchestrated belief system, frankly, I don't think there is even an attraction to the human spirit.
The natural inclination in all humans is to posit a force, a spirit, outside of us. That tendency toward superstitious magical thinking is just built into our nature.
Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning.
If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level.
The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.
The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
I want to be recognised as exemplifying the Olympic spirit - one of the last true Olympians.
All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.
With the right to vote, our choice should be for the Holy Spirit to lead us and guide us.
I love sportsmen's spirit, their ability to come back and override negativity. Michael Owen has been written off so many times, but he will always prove the doubters wrong.
God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.
Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.
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.
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.
The Citizen's Petition reflects Vermont's spirit of pragmatism and across-the-board cooperation. I applaud the 'Campaign to Fix the Debt' for calling attention to one of the country's most pressing problems, our ballooning national debt, and for urging policymakers to find practical solutions.
The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.
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.
The sense of being a separate, egoic self begins with the astral, not with the physical, body. The soul is individualized spirit.
