“I am not joking. I'm speaking
of spirit. Not dogma but spirit. The Way.”
Denise Levertov (1923–1997) Poet
Conversation in Moscow
Source: Ghost Story
“I am not joking. I'm speaking
of spirit. Not dogma but spirit. The Way.”
Denise Levertov (1923–1997) Poet
Conversation in Moscow
Kenpachiro Satsuma (1947) Japanese actor
As quoted by David Milner, "Kenpachiro Satsuma Interview I" http://www.davmil.org/www.kaijuconversations.com/satsum.htm, Kaiju Conversations (December 1993)
Russell Baker (1925–2019) writer and satirst from the United States
"The Morals Charge," The New York Times (1974-05-14)
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
2000s, 2003, Hope and Conscience Will Not Be Silenced (July 2003)
Context: There was a time in my country's history where one in every seven human beings was the property of another. In law, they were regarded only as articles of commerce, having no right to travel or to marry or to own possessions. Because families were often separated, many were denied even the comfort of suffering together. For 250 years the captives endured an assault on their culture and their dignity. The spirit of Africans in America did not break. Yet the spirit of their captors was corrupted. Small men took on the powers and airs of tyrants and masters. Years of unpunished brutality and bullying and rape produced a dullness and hardness of conscience. Christian men and women became blind to the clearest commands of their faith and added hypocrisy to injustice. A republic founded on equality for all became a prison for millions. And yet in the words of the African proverb, no fist is big enough to hide the sky. All of the generations oppressed under the laws of man could not crush the hope of freedom and defeat the purposes of God.
Sitting Bull (1831–1890) Hunkpapa Lakota medicine man and holy man
Quoted in Vine Deloria, God Is Red: A Native View of Religion. Golden, Colo: Fulcrum Pub, 2003, cited to Virginia Armstrong, I have spoken; American history through the voices of the Indians. Chicago, Sage Books, 1971.
Henry D. Moyle (1889–1963) Member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
Conversation with President w:Boyd K. Packer of the Quorum of the Twelve driving back from Arizona and talking about a man who destroyed the faith of young people from the vantage point of a teaching position, but who had not yet been formally excommunicated. Reported in The Mantle Is Far, Far Greater Than The Intellect, a talk given by Pres. Packer at the Fifth Annual Church Educational System Religious Educators' Symposium, 22 August, 1981, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. For an official transcript see Brigham Young University Studies, Summer 1981.
Quotes as an apostle
“The first Man is the first Spirit-seer; all appears to him as Spirit.”
Novalis (1772–1801) German poet and writer
Novalis (1829)
Context: The first Man is the first Spirit-seer; all appears to him as Spirit. What are children, but first men? The fresh gaze of the Child is richer in significance than the forecasting of the most indubitable Seer.