Ghost Quotes - Page 22

• Studio Ghosts: When you're in the studio painting, there are a lot of people in there with you - your teachers, friends, painters from history, critics... and one by one if you're really painting, they walk out. And if you're really painting YOU walk out.

  Philip Guston

  Inspirational, Teacher, Art

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• Of course all advance depends upon money, when we depend upon paid workers for any advance. Teach men as one of their first lessons in the gospel that pastoral work and evangelistic work ought to be paid, and will they not believe it? They would all believe it if the Holy Ghost did not dispute our teaching. It is a powerful proof of the presence and grace of the Holy Ghost that they do not all believe it and act accordingly.

  Roland Allen

  Powerful, Believe, Teaching

  Roland Allen, David M. Paton (2012). “The Ministry of the Spirit: Selected Writings of Roland Allen”, p.182, The Lutterworth Press

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• A Corpse or a Ghost- I'd sooner be one or t'other, square and fair, than a Ghost in a Corpse, which is my feelins at present.

  William De Morgan

  Squares, Corpses, Fairs

  William Frend De Morgan (1906). “Joseph Vance: An Ill-written Autobiography”, H. Frowde

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• The thing that all of us should strive for is to so live, keeping the commandments of the Lord, that He can answer our prayers. If we will live worthy, then the Lord will guide us - by a personal appearance, or by His actual voice, or by His voice coming into our mind, or by impressions upon our heart and our soul. And oh, how grateful we ought to be if the Lord sends us a dream in which is revealed to us the beauties of the eternity or a warning and direction for our special comfort. Yes, if we so live, the Lord will guide us for our salvation and for our benefit.

  Harold B. Lee

  Dream, Prayer, Grateful

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• My knowledge is, if you will follow the teachings of Jesus Christ and his Apostles, as recorded in the New Testament, every man and woman will be put in possession of the Holy Ghost. . . . They will know things that are, that will be, and that have been. They will understand things in heaven, things on the earth, and things under the earth, things of time, and things of eternity, according to their several callings and capacities.

  Brigham Young

  Jesus, Teaching, Men

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• We believe we are entitled to the gift of the Holy Ghost in extent according to the discretion and wisdom of God and our faithfulness; which gift brings all things to our remembrance, past, present, and to come, that are necessary for us to know, and as far as our minds are prepared to receive the knowledge of God revealed by that all-wise Agent. The Holy Ghost is God's minister, and is delegated to visit the sons and daughters of men. All intelligent beings pertaining to this earth are instructed from the same source.

  Brigham Young

  Wise, Daughter, Believe

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• Though a man should say but a few words, and his sentences and words be ever so ungrammatical, if he speaks by the power of the Holy Ghost, he will do good.

  Brigham Young

  Men, Few Words, Speak

  Brigham Young (1860). “Journal of Discourses”

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• Not a desire, act, wish, or thought does the Holy Ghost indulge in contrary to that which is dictated by the Father

  Brigham Young

  Father, Indulge In, Wish

  Brigham Young (1858). “Journal of Discourses”

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• The Holy Ghost is the Spirit of the Lord, and issues forth from himself, and may properly be called God's minister to execute his will in immensity.

  Brigham Young

  Issues, May, Spirit

  Brigham Young (1855). “Journal of Discourses”, p.50

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• If the Son was begotten by the Holy Ghost, it would be very dangerous to baptize and confirm females, and give the Holy Ghost to them, lest he should beget children, to be palmed upon the Elders by the people, bringing the Elders into great difficulties

  Brigham Young

  Children, Son, Giving

  Brigham Young (1855). “Journal of Discourses”, p.51

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• You might prove doctrine from the Bible till doomsday, and it would merely convince a people, but would not convert them. You might read the Bible from Genesis to Revelations, and prove every iota that you advance, and that alone would have no converting influence upon the people. Nothing short of a testimony by the power of the Holy Ghost would bring light and knowledge to them -- bring them in their hearts to repentance. Nothing short of that would ever do.

  Brigham Young

  Heart, Light, People

  Brigham Young (1858). “Journal of Discourses”, p.327

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• Jesus Christ was not begotten by the Holy Ghost.

  Brigham Young

  Jesus, Christ, Holy

  Brigham Young (1977). “Journal of Discourses”, p.51, Рипол Классик

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• To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man.

  Matthew Arnold

  Life, Men, World

  Matthew Arnold (1867). “New Poems”, p.145

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• Voluptuous bloom and fragrance rare The summer to its rose may bring; Far sweeter to the wooing air The hidden violet of spring. Still, still that lovely ghost appears, Too fair, too pure, to bid depart; No riper love of later years Can steal its beauty from the heart.

  Bayard Taylor

  Love, Summer, Spring

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.43

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• One need not be a Chamber - to be Haunted - One need not be a House - The Brain - has Corridors - surpassing Material Place - Far safer, of a Midnight - meeting External Ghost - Than an Interior - Confronting - That cooler - Host. Far safer, through an Abbey - gallop - The Stones a'chase - Than Moonless - One's A'self encounter - In lonesome place - Ourself - behind ourself - Concealed - Should startle - most.

  Emily Dickinson

  Self, House, Brain

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.184, Harvard University Press

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• All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.

  Saint Basil

  Fall, Utterance, Sin

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• It is - last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man

  Matthew Arnold

  Men, Frozen, World

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.425, Delphi Classics

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• Acting is not a genteel profession. Actors used to be buried at a crossroads with a stake through the heart. Those people's performances so troubled the onlookers that they feared their ghosts. An awesome compliment. Those players moved the audience not such that they were admitted to a school, or received a complimentary review, but such that the audience feared for their soul. Now that seems to me something to aim for.

  David Mamet

  School, Heart, Player

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• What . . . is this testimony of Jesus, how can it be acquired, and what will it do for those who receive it? The testimony of Jesus is the sure and certain knowledge, revealed to the spirit of a person through the Holy Ghost, that Jesus is the living Son of the living God. Because the testimony of Jesus is God-given, it stands preeminent and is essential to a happy life. It is the fundamental principle of our religion, and all other things pertaining to our faith are appendages to it.

  Keith B. McMullin

  Jesus, Happy Life, Son

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• Who knew there were so many ghosts to be busted in the world?

  Paul Feig

  World, Busted

  "Paul Feig: Ghostbusters reboot criticism is 'vile, misogynistic shit" by Ben Child, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2015.

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• The ignorant frighten children with ghosts, and the better educated assure them there is no such thing. Our understanding may believe the latter, but our instincts believe the former; so that, out of this education, we retain the terror, and just believe enough to make it very troublesome whenever we are placed in circumstances that awaken it.

  Catherine Crowe

  Children, Believe, Understanding

  Catherine Crowe (1850). “The night-side of nature; or, Ghosts and ghost-seers”, p.174

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• I look for ghosts; but none will force Their way to me. 'Tis falsely said That there was ever intercourse Between the living and the dead.

  William Wordsworth

  Looks, Way, Apparitions

  William Wordsworth (1848). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England”, p.74

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• I have noticed this, that when a man is full of the Holy Ghost he is the very last man to be complaining of other people.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Men, People, Lasts

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 420, 1895.

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• I firmly believe that the moment our hearts are emptied of pride and selfishness and ambition and self-seeking and every thing that is contrary to God's law, the Holy Ghost will come and fill every corner of our hearts; but if we are full of pride and conceit and ambition and self-seeking and pleasure and the world, there is no room for the Spirit of God; and I believe many a man is praying to God to fill him when he is full already with something else.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Believe, Heart, Ambition

  Dwight L Moody (2013). “Secret Power”, p.20, Lulu Press, Inc

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• My daddy says that when you do somethin' to distract you from your worstest fears, it's like whistlin' past the graveyard. You know, making a racket to keep the scaredness and the ghosts away. He says that's how we get by sometimes. But it's not weak, like hidin'...it's strong. It means you're able to go on.

  Susan Crandall

  Strong, Mean, Past

  "Whistling Past the Graveyard". Book by Susan Crandall, 2014.

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