Holy spirit proverbs

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◆ You can spend all your life looking for things. The truth is that those things will elude you. Change your approach. Begin to seek God and you will see things running after you.

- Theophilus Ajadi98

◆ Father, Son, and Holy Spirit remind us that there is always more of God than we know, always more of God than we can explain, always more of God than we can show. The Trinity says God is not in a box but is bigger, much bigger than we imagine. God is more powerful than we sometimes want to believe or remember, but in remembering there is great comfort.

- Thomas R. Steagald98

◆ It's hard to hear the gentle whisper of the Spirit amid the noise of Christendom.

- Shane Claiborne98

◆ Satan does not care what you know. He only fears what you understand and apply. In fact, his assignment is to hinder your understanding.

- Theophilus Ajadi98

◆ Seek God's inspiration first, then you will become an inspiration to someone else.

- James Tamara98

◆ Torrance uses the analogy of an embrace. When we hug someone, there is a double movement. We open our arms and in so doing give ourselves to the beloved. But in the embrace we also draw that person close to us...One hand, Christ, opens the relationship, the other hand, the Holy Spirit draws us into that relationship with the Father.

- Leonard J. Vander Zee98

◆ Not to be daily employing the Spirit and new nature for the mortifying of sin is to neglect that excellent succor which God has given us against our greatest enemy. If we neglect to make use of what we have received, God may justly hold his hand from giving us more. His graces, as well as his gifts, are bestowed on us to use, exercise, and trade with. Not to be daily mortifying sin is to sin against the goodness, kindness, wisdom, grace, and love of God, who has furnished us with a principle of doing it.

- John Owen98

◆ Using a combination of history, common sense, the Word of God and the Spirit of God, every leader can generally predict the way things will go.

- Dag Heward-Mills98

◆ Our Scripture awakened that most glorious of things, the spontaneous love our Lord so desires His children to bear Him, for it is what He bears them.

- Amy Rachel Peterson98

◆ You may not fully discover who you are until you are helped by the Holy Spirit.

- Bamigboye Olurotimi98

◆ No matter how much individuals do through their own efforts, they cannot actively purify themselves enough to be disposed in the least degree for the divine union of the perfection of love. God must take over and purge them in that fire that is dark for them, as we will explain.

- Juan de la Cruz98

◆ The author nicely encapsulates Paul's overarching intent in his letter to Corinth, to impress upon those in the church infatuated with the gifts of the Spirit a greater awestruck awareness of His presence in and among them. The author then illustrates thusly: if we have but a few coins, we may carry them lightly with little concern as to whether we lose them. But if we are aware that we carry a great sum, we will carry it with great care. How much more the Treasure of the Holy Spirit within the earthen vessel of our bodies?

- Watchman Nee98

◆ Prayer does not blind us to the world, but it transforms our vision of the world, and makes us see it, all men, and all the history of mankind, in the light of God. To pray 'in spirit and in truth' enables us to enter into contact with that infinite love, that inscrutable freedom which is at work behind the complexities and the intricacies of human existence. This does not mean fabricating for ourselves pious rationalizations to explain everything that happens. It involves no surreptitious manipulation of the hard truths of life.

- Thomas Merton98

◆ There is nothing stereotyped about God's dealings with His children. Therefore, we must not by our prejudices and preconceptions make watertight compartments for the working out His Spirit, either in our own lives or in the lives of others. We must leave God free to work as He wills and to leave what evidence He pleases of the work He does.

- Watchman Nee98

◆ An imagination submitted to the movement of the Holy Spirit is a powerful tool in the hands of God to write testaments of His glory.

- Alisa Hope Wagner98