O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.

That I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache!

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, ‚black feminist‘ does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it’s just… womanish.

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

He who doesn’t pray to the Lord prays to the devil.

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

America is the spirit of human exploration distilled.

The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship.

I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God’s Will, united in spirit and in aim.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don’t have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil’s propagation.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

When we trust God more than our feelings, it confuses the devil. I mean, when he throws you his best shot and he can’t budge you from believing God, he won’t know what to do with you anymore.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

If Sunday is the Lord’s day, then Saturday belongs to the Devil. It is the only night of the week when he gives out Free passes to the Late show at the Too Much Fun Club.

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations – wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.

Fear is a spirit that produces a feeling.

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

There is neither spirit nor matter in the world. The stuff of the universe is spirit-matter. No other substance but this could have produced the human molecule.

Too many Christians live their lives like slaves – to the devil – because they believe his lies more than they trust God.

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

The devil ain’t got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil’s a good friend, too… because when you don’t know him, that’s the time he can mosh you down.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.

Language is wine upon the lips.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

What you see, but can’t see over is as good as infinite.

What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.

Your energy, your spirit are important considerations. Feeling petty and frustrated can have reverberating consequences for your ability to think strategically and reach your goals.

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.

Heaven is a state of mind, not a location, since Spirit is everywhere and in everything.

Our enemy, the devil, wants to control us, and his target is our will. The main way he tries to influence our will is through lying to us.

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can’t fool the neighbors.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them – neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn’t do anything to you, but since you aren’t wise, you need us who are old.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

There are two great forces, God’s force of good and the devil’s force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don’t understand.