Thanks be to God, the Spirit helpeth our infirmities, even the mental infirmity of subjection to interruptions when we least desire them.
—Amy Carmichael
The application of Christ to the soul effectually, though it be so far wrought in the first saving work of the Spirit, as truly to unite the soul to Christ: yet it is a work gradually advancing in the believer’s soul, whilst it abides on this side heaven and glory.
—John Flavel
It is the Spirit of God alone who can make a person inwardly certain of the truth of divine revelation.
—Herman Bavinck
Strive, O my soul, to maintain and keep alive impressions, first, of the constant presence of a holy, omniscient, omnipotent, but infinitely merciful and gracious God, of Christ our almighty shepherd, of the Holy Spirit, of the evil one, and the invisible world in general.
—William Wilberforce
That which is born of, or produced by, the Holy Ghost, in the heart or soul of a man when he is regenerate, that which makes him so, is spirit; in opposition to the flesh, or that enmity which is in us by nature against God.
—John Owen
That which is born of, or produced by, the Holy Ghost, in the heart or soul of a man when he is regenerate, that which makes him so, is spirit; in opposition to the flesh, or that enmity which is in us by nature against God.
—John Owen
I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.
—Charles Dickens
There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the human heart that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes.
—Leo Tolstoy
The work of the Spirit does not only evidence and manifest that difference which God’s election has made between man and man, but it also makes a twofold difference itself; namely in state and temper? whereby they visibly differ, not only from other men, but also from themselves.
—John Flavel
“Blessed be the name of our gracious God, he knows how to erase the evil and to cleanse the soul through his Holy Spirit’s applying the work of Jesus to us.”
Spiritual acts for tyrants are worse than bodily ones. A thief will be pardoned sooner than a righteous man who is strong in spirit.
—Hryhorii Skovoroda
“When the heart is fully influenced by God’s Spirit, then the will and the intellect, the memory and the imagination, and everything else which makes up the inward man, comes under cheerful allegiance to the King of kings.”
– Charles Spurgeon
The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father do. And the Spirit can do nothing of himself; but what he hears from the Father and Son; and it is impossible it should be otherwise, considering not only the unity of their nature, but also of their will and design.
—John Flavel
To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.
—Stephen Hawking
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
—Aldous Huxley
For the Holy Spirit comes in the Father’s and in the Son’s name and authority, to put the last hand to the work of our salvation, by bringing all the fruits of election and redemption home to our souls in this work.
—John Flavel
The spirit of a nation is reflected in its history, its religion, and the degree of its political freedom.
—Georg Hegel
I will press forward and labour to know God better, and love him more, assuredly I may, because God will give his Holy Spirit to them that ask him, and the Holy Ghost will shed abroad the love of God in the heart.
—William Wilberforce
When we bring the Church down to the level of the world to reach the world, we are losing all the while and grieving the Spirit of God.
—D. L. Moody
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
—Marcus Aurelius
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
—Voltaire
The Father has elected, and the Son has redeemed; but until the Spirit (who is the last cause) has wrought his part also, we cannot be saved.
—John Flavel
No sooner has a soul escaped than the great Adversary takes steps to ensnare it again. The fiercest attacks are made on the strongest forts, and the fiercer the battle the young believer is called on to wage, the surer evidence it is of the work of the Holy Spirit in his heart.
—D. L. Moody
A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
—John Milton
He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks.
—Sun Tzu
“Oh, to preach Christ in a Christly way, — to tell of mercy in the spirit of mercy, and to preach grace in a truly gracious way!”
– Charles Spurgeon
“You shall know that he is with you, you shall be sure of it, for his life shall touch your life, his spirit shall flood and overflood your spirit; and then, but not till then, shall you be fit to speak in his name.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“[…]Christ is still alive, and still with his people, still conversing with his chosen ones, still by his Divine Spirit speaking out of his very heart into the hearts of his true disciples.”
– Charles Spurgeon
When the government is too intrusive, people lose their spirit.
—Laozi
What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?
—Michelangelo