Quotes About Spirit

Now the same Spirit dwelling in Christ's heart in heaven, that does in yours here, and always working in his heart first for you, and then in yours by commission from him; rest assured, therefore, that that Spirit stirs up in him bowels of mercy infinitely larger towards you than you can have unto yourselves.

The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

The disembodied spirit is immortal there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.

He who has conquered his own coward spirit has conquered the whole outward world;

What kind of God is this who permits or sends such tragedy into the lives of his friends? Job complained bitterly about his pitiful condition. But would he have learned who God is unless he had gone through the shattering experiences that brought to an end his naive conception of how God functions? The greatest fruit of the night of spirit is the disposition that is willing to accept God on his own terms. As a result, one allows God to be God without knowing who or what that is.

Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.

Solitude is a way to defend the spirit against the murderous din of our materialism.

The devil...the prowde spirite...cannot endure to be mocked.

It was needless, after this, to say that all was vanity and vexation of spirit; for it is impossible to derive happiness from the company of those whom we deprive of happiness.

For trade being the consequence of population, men become too much absorbed thereby to attend to anything else. Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence.

Matter is changing and transient, but substance or spirit is unchanging and eternal.

Spirit in the Infinite is the Creative Power of the universe,

Ministers can but speak to the ear, the Spirit speaks to the heart.

God comes down to us by his Spirit, and we go up to him by prayer.

Upon our turning to God, we have more restored to us in Christ—than ever was lost in Adam. God says to the repenting soul, "I will clothe you with the robe of righteousness; I will enrich you with the jewels and graces of my Spirit. I will bestow my love upon you! I will give you a kingdom! Son, all I have is yours!

The Nature of True Repentance, Part 1 I shall next show what Gospel repentance is. Repentance is a grace of God's Spirit whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and visibly reformed. For a further amplification, know that repentance is a spiritual medicine made up of six special ingredients: 1. Sight of sin 2. Sorrow for sin 3. Confession of sin 4. Shame for sin 5. Hatred for sin 6. Turning from sin If any one is left out, it loses its virtue.

Christ was born of a virgin, that we might be born of God. He took our flesh, that He might give us His Spirit. He lay in the manger that we might lie in paradise. He came down from heaven, that He might bring us to heaven. And what was all this but love? If our hearts be not rocks, this love of Christ should affect us. Behold, love that surpasses knowledge!

Are these the duties I required? I called for the heart and spirit and you bring nothing but the carcass of duty. Should I receive this?" "The Lord says These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me." Isaiah 29:13

Men begin by sinning against the light of conscience, and proceed gradually to despiting the Spirit of grace.

Do not rest in baptism; what is it to have the water, and want the Spirit?

This is a sign of a new nature: when a man hates what he once loved! And because he hates sin, therefore he fights against it with the "sword of the Spirit" (Eph 6:17), as a man who hates a serpent seeks the destruction of it.

What is the reason the word works so differently? It is because the Spirit of God carries the word to the conscience of one and not another. One has receive the divine unction and not the other.

cuando la gracia entra en el corazón, oh qué cambio está ahí! Prepondera la gracia, se presenta frente a la rebelión de la voluntad- hace a un hombre de otro espíritu! convierte el furor de león, en una dulzura de paloma! cambia el odio en delicia! pone un nuevo sesgo en la voluntad! Actúa una espontaneidad y la alegría en servicio de Dios. "tu pueblo será un pueblo dispuesto en el día de tu poder," Salmo 110.8.