HOLY
SPIRIT
The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.
The Bible, 1 Corinthians 2:10
Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own.
The Bible, 1 Corinthians 6:19
The Holy Spirit is not something that stands by itself, something that we can pray for and have as a thing in itself, it is born from Love and is of Love, all its treasures are of Love, and if we are to believe our Gospels it is received by Love and Love only.
Florence Allshorn
Happy the man whose words come from the Holy Spirit and not from himself.
Anthony of Padua
We share in the divine nature through our sharing of the Spirit.
Athanasius
The Holy Spirit, object of faith, is also an object of prayer: we must not only pray that we receive the Holy Spirit. We must pray to him.
Karl Barth
As a foolish church presupposes the Holy Spirit’s presence and action in its own existence, in its offices and sacraments, ordinations, consecrations, and absolutions, so a foolish theology presupposes the Holy Spirit. Only where the Spirit is sighed, cried, and prayed for does he become present and newly active.
Karl Barth
The Spirit bears witness. Ecstasy and enlightenment, inspiration and intuition are not necessary. Happy is the man who is worthy of these; but woe unto us if we wait for such experiences; woe unto us if we do not perceive that these things are of secondary importance.
Karl Barth
We are all strings in the concert of his joy; the spirit from his mouth strikes the note and the tune of our strings.
Jakob Boehme
There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.
John Calvin
If we recognize the Spirit of God as the unique fountain of truth, we shall never despise the truth wherever it may appear, unless we wish to do dishonor to the Spirit of God.
John Calvin
True discrimination between right and wrong does not then depend on the acuteness of our intelligence, but on the wisdom of the Spirit.
John Calvin
All of us who have received one and the same Spirit, that is, the Holy Spirit, are in a sense blended together with one another and with God. For if Christ, together with the Father’s and his own Spirit, comes to dwell in each of us, though we are many, still the Spirit is one and undivided. He binds together the spirits of each and every one of us, and makes all appear as one in him. For just as the power of Christ’s sacred flesh unites those in whom it dwells into one body, I think that in the same way the one and undivided Spirit of God, who dwells in all, leads all into spiritual unity.
Cyril of Alexandria
The Spirit of God is given to the true saints to dwell in them, as his proper lasting abode; and to influence their hearts, as a principle of new nature or as a divine supernatural spring of life and action.
Jonathan Edwards
A general rule for the good use of time is to accustom oneself to live in a continual dependence on the Spirit of God.
F. Fénelon
For Paul the Spirit was an experienced reality.
H. Gunkel
Spiritual rest maketh no man idle, spiritual walking maketh no man weary.
Nathaniel Hardy
Those who have the gale of the Holy Spirit go forward even in sleep. If the vessel of our soul is still tossed with winds and storms, let us awake the Lord, who reposes in it, and He will quickly calm the sea.
Brother Lawrence
The Holy Spirit of grace desires to disturb your sleep. Blessed are you if you awaken.
Lars Linderot
The Holy Ghost has called me by the Gospel, and illuminated me with His gifts, and sanctified and preserved me in the true faith.
Martin Luther
Than anyone should be represented as just and God-fearing who does not have the Spirit would be the same as if Belial were called Christ.
Martin Luther
The unconverted do not like to hear much about the Holy Spirit.
Robert Murray M’Cheyne
His task is to bring about the unity of the human race in the Body of Christ, but he also imparts to this unity a personal, and hence diversified, character.
John Meyendorff
Thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer
Before all Temples th’ upright heart and
pure.
John Milton
There is not a better evangelist in the world than the Holy Spirit.
Dwight L. Moody
All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit.
John Owen
Pardon comes not to the soul alone; or rather, Christ comes not to the soul with pardon only! It is that which He opens the door and enters by, but He comes with a Spirit of life and power.
John Owen
Every time we say, “I believe in the Holy Spirit,” we mean that we believe that there is a living God able and willing to enter human personality and change it.
J.B. Phillips
The testimony of the Spirit is that alone by which the true knowledge of God has been, is and can be only revealed.
The Chief Principles of the Christian Religion as Professed by the People Called the Quakers
The Pentecostal power, when you sum it all up, is just more of God’s love. If it does not bring more love, it is simply a counterfeit.
William J. Seymour
We do not need to wait for the Holy Spirit to come: he came on the day of Pentecost. He has never left the church.
John Stott
I believe in the surprises of the Holy Spirit.
Leon Joseph Cardinal Suenens
I found that I believed in the action of the Holy Spirit, but in a limited sphere; in me the Spirit could not call forth from the organ all the melody he wished; some of the pipes did not function, because they had not been used.
Leon Joseph Suenens
God is especially present in the hearts of His people, by His Holy Spirit; and indeed the hearts of holy men are temples in the truth of things, and in type and shadow they are heaven itself. For God reigns in the hearts of His servants; there is His Kingdom.
Jeremy Taylor
The Holy Spirit is not a blessing from God, He is God.
Colin Urquhart
The renewal of our natures is a work of great importance. It is not to be done in a day. We have not only a new house to build up, but an old one to pull down.
George Whitefield
I feel it’s very important that we direct this “refreshing” and “enabling” move of the Spirit to the New Testament works of the church, that is to say, having been refreshed, we now must channel these people into work that would express that refreshing in solid, biblical context. I believe that if we channel this energy away from a “bless me” kind of focus to a “bless them” kind of focus we will indeed be utilizing this fresh anointing in a biblically appropriate fashion.
John Wimber