You must cultivate poverty of spirit. Blessed are the meek. She didn’t go on to say anything about inheriting the earth.
While religion, contrary to the common notion, implies, in certain cases, a spirit of slow reserve as to assent, infidelity, which claims to despise credulity, is sometimes swift to it.
You can kill the body, but not the spirit.[to Mr. Hands]
There’s naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
There is prodigious danger in the seeking loose spirits.
The Spirit of Love has acquired strength, the result of all vanquished terrestrial passions.[L’Esprit d’Amour a conquis la force, résultat de toutes les passions terrestres vaincues.]
The spirit is serene only when it contemplates the truth and takes delight in good achieved, and truth and good are not to be laughed at.
Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it even becometh populace.[Einst war der Geist Gott, dann wurde er zum Menschen und jetzt wird er gar noch Pöbel.]
No one who is young is ever going to be old.
Man dies in despair while the Spirit dies in ecstasy.[Aussi les hommes meurent-ils dans le désespoir, tandis que l’Esprit meurt dans le ravissement.]
In each individual the spirit has become flesh, in each man the creation suffers, within each one a redeemer is nailed to the cross.
I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress.