Found 489 Results for: Spirit

• Encouraged by the noble words of Judas, which had the power to inspire valour and give the young the spirit of mature men, they decided not to entrench themselves in a camp, but bravely to take the offensive and, in hand-to-hand fighting, to commit the result to the fortune of war, since the city, their holy religion and the Temple were in danger. (2 Maccabees 15, 17)

• Glad heart means happy face, where the heart is sad the spirit is broken. (Proverbs 15, 13)

• Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall. (Proverbs 16, 18)

• A glad heart is excellent medicine, a depressed spirit wastes the bones away. (Proverbs 17, 22)

• Sickness the human spirit can endure, but when the spirit is broken, who can bear this? (Proverbs 18, 14)

• The human spirit is the lamp of Yahweh -- searching the deepest self. (Proverbs 20, 27)

• Who knows if the human spirit mounts upward or if the animal spirit goes downward to the earth? (Ecclesiastes 3, 21)

• the dust returns to the earth from which it came, and the spirit returns to God who gave it. (Ecclesiastes 12, 7)

• for the holy spirit of instruction flees deceitfulness, recoils from unintelligent thoughts, is thwarted by the onset of vice. (Wisdom of Solomon 1, 5)

• Wisdom is a spirit friendly to humanity, though she will not let a blasphemer's words go unpunished; since God observes the very soul and accurately surveys the heart, listening to every word. (Wisdom of Solomon 1, 6)

• For the spirit of the Lord fills the world, and that which holds everything together knows every word said. (Wisdom of Solomon 1, 7)

• extinguish this and the body turns to ashes, and the spirit melts away like the yielding air. (Wisdom of Solomon 2, 3)