The Holy Spirit, thank God, often enables people to forgive even though they are not sure how they did it.
I am often criticized, or at least questions are raised, about what appears to be the absence of the Holy Spirit in my work.
One night, I just woke up and I went, 'Killing Jesus.' And I believe, because I'm a Catholic, that comes from the Holy Spirit. My inspiration comes from that. And so I wrote 'Killing Jesus' because I think I was directed to write that.
Only the holy spirit, the spirit of the lord, can transform us.
There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action.
Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
We are all different. There is no such thing as a standard or run-of-the-mill human being, but we share the same human spirit.
We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit.
Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.
There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.
The entire aim of my work is to elevate the human spirit. We can put the human spirit down so easily.
Biblical myth is as integral to the spirit of the South as the heat and humidity.
God is a spirit. A spirit is as much matter as oxygen or hydrogen.
Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of defiance and resistance in a Jamaican poetic idiom.
Spirit is impervious to illness.
When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
We're immersed in the spirit of God all the time. We just don't notice.
The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship.
