#iri

If you're not settled spiritually, things can be a little bit more chaotic than normal. ↗

— Emmitt Smith

#chaotic #little #little bit #more #normal

The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue. ↗

— George A. Smith

#enthusiasm #ever #feels #god #made

Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly affected and still affect the course of history? ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#affected #between #character #course #differences

I'm not a chauvinist. I'm a universalist. I think that God imploded, like a spiritual big bang, to launch the eight civilizations that make up recorded history and the religions in those civilizations. ↗

— Huston Smith

#big #big bang #civilizations #eight #god

There is no such thing as immaterial matter. All spirit is matter, but is more fine or pure, and can only be discerned by purer eyes. We cannot see it, but when our bodies are purified, we shall see that it is all matter. ↗

— Joseph Smith, Jr.

#cannot #discerned #eyes #fine #immaterial

After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits. ↗

— Catherine Helen Spence

#break #break up #father #health #his

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#believe #create #holy #more #repent

I had four or five years in school training as a soprano. I fell into pop singing because of economics. I got out of high school and had to go work, and they weren't hiring opera singers. ↗

— Jo Stafford

#economics #fell #five #four #go

Also, because schools must teach the spirit of goodwill, the habit of helping others around you, every class should have this rule: students, if you bring software to class you may not keep it for yourself. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#around #because #bring #class #every

I'm pretty spiritual; I believe a lot in the spirit of man. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#i #i believe #lot #man #pretty