 The spirit of prayer is a pressing forth of the soul out of this earthly life, it is a stretching with all its desire after the life of God, it is a leaving, as far as it can, all its own spirit, to receive a spirit from above, to be one life, one love, one spirit with Christ in God. Author: William Law |
| As all types and figures in the Law were but empty shadows without the coming of Christ, so the New Testament is but a dead letter without the Holy Spirit in redeemed men as the living power of a full salvation. Author: William Law |
| This new birth in Christ, thus firmly believed and continually desired, will do everything that thou wantest to have done in thee, it will dry up all the springs of vice, stop all the workings of evil in thy nature, it will bring all that is good into thee, it will open all the gospel within thee, and thou wilt know what it is to be taught of God. Author: William Law |
| Read whatever chapter of scripture you will, and be ever so delighted with it - yet it will leave you as poor, as empty and unchanged as it found you unless it has turned you wholly and solely to the Spirit of God, and brought you into full union with and dependence upon him. Author: William Law |
| When God spoke to Moses and others in the Old Testament, those events were encounters with God. An encounter with Jesus was an encounter with God for the disciples. In the same way an encounter with the Holy Spirit is an encounter with God for you. Author: Henry Blackaby |
| God speaks through a variety of means. In the present God primarily speaks by the Holy Spirit, through the Bible, prayer, circumstances, and the church. Author: Henry Blackaby |
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| Jesus Christ, came into the world to glorify the Father, and the Holy Ghost came into the world to glorify the Son. Author: F.B. Meyer |
| When we are born again, a new life - the life of God - is put into us by the Holy Spirit. But the old self-life, which is called in Scripture the flesh, is not taken away. The two may coexist in the same heart. "The flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh. Author: F.B. Meyer |
| "Amplius" means broader, fuller, wider. That is God's perpetual word to us in relation to filling of the Holy Spirit. We can never have enough to satisfy His yearning desire. When we have apprehended most, there are always unexpected supplies in store ready to be drawn upon. Author: F.B. Meyer |
| Man was so engineered by God that the presence of the Creator within the creature is indispensable to His humanity. Author: Major Ian Thomas |
| The moment you are redeemed through the atoning death of Christ upon the cross, you receive the Holy Spirit within your human spirit. Author: Major Ian Thomas |
| The Kingdom of God is not going to be advanced by our churches becoming filled with men, but by men in our churches becoming filled with God. Author: Duncan Campbell |
