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Quotes about Spirits

In every age have mighty spirits dwelt unseen with man, biding the hour that needed them.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The material universe is both an essential display of the greatness and goodness of God and the arena of the eternal life of finite spirits, including the human.
- Dallas Willard
But many of the conceptual constructs that we employ in scientific and in philosophical thought concern objects such as black holes and quarks in physics, and God, spirits, and souls in metaphysics. These are objects about which it is of fundamental importance to ask about their existence in reality.
- Mortimer Adler
There was an army of hundreds of thousands of spirits fighting alongside the blacks, and that was why finally the whites were defeated. Everyone is in agreement about that, even the French soldiers, who felt the spirits' fury. Maître Valmorain, who did not believe in anything he did not understand, and as he understood very little believed in nothing, was also convinced that the dead aided the rebels.
- Isabel Allende
Everybody should believe in something; I believe I'll have another drink.
- Anonymous
The desire, let alone the gesture, to meet her needs was good enough to lift her spirits to the place where she could take the next step: ask for some clarifying word; some advice about how to keep on with a brain greedy for news nobody could live with in a world happy to provide it.
- Toni Morrison
Unforgiveness imprisons our souls and opens the door to evil spirits in us. In my experience, unforgiveness is the number one reason why Christians are oppressed.
- Kris Vallotton
Prisoners are people who have invited demonic oppression into their lives through a lifestyle of sin. The demons know they have permission to wreak havoc in these prisoners' souls until the prisoners repent. Once a prisoner has repented, the evil spirits no longer have authorization to oppress that person because the roots of sin have been dealt with.
- Kris Vallotton
No nation is drunken where wine is cheap; and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. It is, in truth, the only antidote to the bane of whiskey.
- Thomas Jefferson
We are eternal beings. We lived as intelligent spirits before this mortal life. We are now living part of eternity. Our mortal birth was not the beginning; death, which faces all of us, is not the end.
- Ezra Taft Benson
I just think music is such a beautiful thing. It lifts the heart and buoys up your spirits - all kinds of music.
- Amy Grant
The question isn't if someone will sign up for spiritual formation; it's just who and what our spirits will be formed by.
- John Ortberg