“Spirit is a tangible substance.”

“Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.”

“Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible and mars the mutable, and finally has come to look and not to buy.”

“A good church is a Bible-centered church. Nothing is as important as this--not a large congregation, a witty pastor, or tangible experiences of the Holy Spirit.”

“the beauty of nature appears only as a reflectin of the beauty,that belongs to spirit, as an imperfect incomplete mode [of beauty],a mode which in its substance is contained in the spirit itself"*hegel”

“The abstract idea of a spirit certainly implies that it has neither substance, form, shape, voice, or anything which can render its presence visible or sensible to human faculties.”