infinite spirit

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His actual pictures of departed souls suggest a state very unlike that reversion of the infinite spirit which had been thrust upon Matter and distended in Time, to the timeless Infinitude it had forgone.

From Robert Browning by Herford, C. H. (Charles Harold)

Creeds and systems, prisons of the infinite spirit of man, never can they befit the age in which the ideal of progress has entered, like an intoxication, into the soul.

From Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles by Sullivan, W. R. Washington

Christianity is addressed rather to the infinite spirit of man than to his finite intelligence, and the believing in Christ through love is more precious in the sight of God than any loving through belief. 

From The Fair Haven by Streatfeild, R. A. (Richard Alexander)

Of absolute evil we cannot be sure that there is any; so many ways must the infinite spirit have to awaken men to a sense of their own destiny.

From Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks

She was an old lady of infinite spirit, and daily, dragging the boy with her lest he again went a-fishing, she trudged to farms near and far to examine and feel their hens.

From Tommy and Grizel by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)