Top 1200 Holy Spirit Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

This it is that gives a majesty so pure and touching to the historic figure of Christ; self-abandonment to God, uttermost surrender, without reserve or stipulation, to the guidance of the Holy Spirit from the Soul of souls; pause in no darkness; hesitation in no perplexity, recoil in no extremity of anguish, but a gentle unfaltering hold of the invisible Hand, of the Only Holy and All Good--these are the features that have made Jesus of Nazareth the dearest and most sacred image to the heart of so many ages.

If you know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, you already have the Holy Spirit living within you.

The Holy Spirit was not sent so we can have bless ups in our churches but so the world can be changed.

Repentance is something that is brought about in the human heart by the work of God the Holy Spirit.

Life comes after you have been filled with the Holy Spirit. Get down and pray for power.

Only the Holy Spirit has the power to make the changes God wants to make in our lives.... We allow Christ to live through us... through the choices we make. We choose to do the right thing in situations and then trust God's Spirit to give us his power, love, faith, and wisdom to do it. Since God's Spirit lives inside of us, these things are always available for asking.

Were it not for the work of the Holy Spirit there would be no gospel, no faith, no church, no Christianity in the world at all.

The Holy Spirit is the bond by which Christ efficaciously unites us to himself.

Fasting reduces the power of self so that the Holy Spirit can do a more intense work within us.

If you have truly been born again, it was the Holy Spirit who convicted you of sin and drew you into a relationship with Jesus.

As starving men crave a crust of bread, as choking men thirst for water, so do the righteous yearn for the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost is a Revelator: he is a Sanctifier; he reveals truth, and he cleanses human souls. He is the Spirit of Truth, and his baptism is one of fire; he burns dross and evil out of repentant souls as though by fire. The gift of the Holy Ghost is the greatest of all the gifts of God, as pertaining to this life; and those who enjoy that gift here and now, will inherit eternal life hereafter, which is the greatest of all the gifts of God in eternity.

When the Church listens to the Holy Spirit, it becomes fruitful. New movements are born.

As long as the house of The Holy Spirit remains a haven for criminals the reputation of the church will remain in ruins.

Only God can give us a selfless love for others, as the Holy Spirit changes us from within. This is one reason we must receive Christ, for apart from His Spirit we can never be freed from the chains of selfishness, jealousy, and indifference. Will others see Christ's love in your life today?

I have never come away from you without reflecting that the Spirit of God and His holy workings reside in you.

The grace of God has no charms for men till the Holy Spirit gives them a taste for it.

When your day is hard, remember to sing HU. It puts you back in line with the Holy Spirit.

Every divine action begins from the Father, proceeds through the Son, and is completed in the Holy Spirit.

Let the Spirit be lacking, and there may be wisdom of words, but not the wisdom of God; the powers of oratory, but not the power of God; the demonstration of argument and the logic of the schools, but not the demonstration of the Holy Spirit, the all-convincing logic of His lightning flash, such as convinced Saul before the Damascus gate. When the Spirit was outpoured the disciples were all filled with power from on high, the most unlettered tongue could silence gainsayers, and with its new fire burn its way through obstacles as flames fanned by mighty winds sweep through forests.

The evidence of justification by faith is the ongoing work of sanctification through the Holy Spirit.

The heavenly Father Whom we worship is the Father of the Truth, namely, of the only-begotten Son, and has the Spirit of Truth, the Holy Spirit, and those who worship Him in these Two do so because they believe in these Persons and act through Them. For the Apostle tells us that it is through the Spirit that we worship and pray (cf. Rom. 8:26), and God's only-begotten Son says, 'No man cometh unto the Father, but by Me' (John 14:6).

The Holy Spirit truly transforms us. With our cooperation, he also wants to transform the world we live in.

What stirs up in my heart is, 'Oh would we see an outpouring of the Holy Spirit.'

Every truth without exception- and whoever may utter it- is from the Holy Spirit.

Fasting keeps you sensitive to His (God) Spirit, enabling you to live holy.

The spirit of Christmas needs to superseded by the Spirit of Christ. The spirit of Christmas is annual; the Spirit of Christ is eternal. The spirit of Christmas is sentimental; the Spirit of Christ is supernatural. The spirit of Christmas is a human product; the Spirit of Christmas is a divine person. That makes all the difference in the world.

Keep always in mind the rule of faith which I profess and by which I bear witness that the Father and the Son and the Spirit are inseparable from each other, and then you will understand what is meant by it. Observe now that I say the Father is other [distinct], the Son is other, and the Spirit is other. This statement is wrongly understood by every uneducated or perversely disposed individual, as if it meant diversity and implied by that diversity a separation of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit

The Holy Spirit's main ministry is not to give thrills but to create in us Christlike character.

I don't believe in the Holy Trinity - but I do believe in the Holy Ghost. The Holy Spook is just a friendly way of saying Holy Ghost.

The Church is where it is today because it has decided that the advertising agents know better than the Holy Spirit of God.

The true aim of our Christian life consists in the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God.

I can say with total conviction that it was the Holy Spirit that chose, guided the election of Pope Francis.

Holy Spirit, take the Word of truth as we find it in the Scriptures and bring it home to our lives.

The less Holy Spirit we have, the more cake and coffee we need to keep the church going.

For me, God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit have always been my closest friends in this journey.

Neither theological knowledge nor social action alone is enough to keep us in love with Christ unless both are proceeded by a personal encounter with Him. Theological insights are gained not only from between two covers of a book, but from two bent knees before an altar. The Holy Hour becomes like an oxygen tank to revive the breath of the Holy Spirit in the midst of the foul and fetid atmosphere of the world

If you have to be reasoned into Christianity, some wise fellow can reason you out of it! If you come to Christ by a flash of the Holy Spirit so that by intuition you know that you are God's child, you know it by the text but you also know it by the inner light, the inner illumination of the Spirit, and no one can ever reason you out of it.

Furthermore, it is not that Spirit is present but you need to be enlightened in order to see it. It is not that you are one with Spirit but just don't know it yet. Because that would also imply that there is some place Spirit is not. No, according to Dzogchen, you are always already one with Spirit, and that awareness is always already fully present, right now. You are looking directly at Spirit, with Spirit, in every act of awareness. There is nowhere Spirit is not.

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.

In my experience, self-hatred is the dominant malaise crippling Christians and stifling their growth in the Holy Spirit.

If we repeatedly read the Bible without the help of the Holy Spirit, it tends to reinforce our own prejudices and rock-hard doctrinal positions. We end up merely finding ammunition for what we already believe. We become so spiritually proud, so convinced of our own positions, that the Spirit is hindered in helping us to grow in the things of God.

Let us ask the Holy Spirit for the grace to live daily according to the mind of Jesus and his Gospel.

Loving a holy God is beyond our moral power. The only kind of God we can love by our sinful nature is an unholy god, an idol made by our own hands. Unless we are born of the Spirit of God, unless God sheds His holy love in our hearts, unless He stoops in His grace to change our hearts, we will not love Him... To love a holy God requires grace, grace strong enough to pierce our hardened hearts and awaken our moribund souls.

It is not for us to imagine that we can prove the truth of Christianity by our own arguments; nobody can prove the truth of Christianity except the Holy Spirit, by his own almighty work of renewing the blinded heart. It is the sovereign prerogative of Christ's Spirit to convince men's consciences of the truth of Christ's gospel; and Christ's human witnesses must learn to ground their hopes of success not on clever presentation of the truth by man, but on powerful demonstration of the truth by the Spirit.

The Holy Spirit has a way of His own to say much in few words.

God is an ever-present spirit guiding all that happens to a wise and holy end.

The simple fact is that the World is too busy to give the Holy Spirit a chance to enter in.

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world.

What we need to be assured of is not that we possess an excellent system of doctrine and ritual, but that the gift of the Holy Spirit is a reality.

An argument may remove doubt, but only the Holy Spirit can convict of truth.

Not only the words (vocabula) which the Holy Spirit and Scripture use are divine, but also the phrasing

The Holy Spirit upon my left leads my feet without ceasing into the camp of the righteous and into the tents of the free.

If the Holy Spirit guides us, He will do it according to the Scriptures and never contrary to them.

The Holy Spirit accompanies God's Word to bring revelation of Christ, resulting in transformation.

From the first Day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit has proven that He will only come to the degree that we have unity.

Young stand-ups, we ought to do comedy in George Carlin's spirit, in Richard Pryor's spirit, in Jackie Gleason's spirit, in Lucille Ball's spirit, because they did it with the spirit.

Those who operate through the Holy Spirit are more equipped to resist temptation.

When we think we’re at the mercy of our circumstances and past, we discount the power that is ours through the Holy Spirit.

The crowning blessing of a true visitation of the Holy Spirit is a mighty harvest for the kingdom of God.

The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.