Holy Spirit Quotes

"If you love me, show it by doing what I've told you. I will talk to the Father, and he'll provide you another Friend so that you will always have someone with you. This Friend is the Spirit of Truth. The godless world can't take him in because it doesn't have eyes to see him, doesn't know what to look for. But you know him already because he has been staying with you, and will even be in you! I will not leave you orphaned. I'm coming back.” (John 14:15-18, The Message)
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The danger of an unspiritual theology may take either of two forms. The first occurs when theology is afraid to yield itself unreservedly to the leading of the Spirit and defers to other authorities, when it "rotates in circles of historicism, rationalism, moralism, romanticism, dogmatism or intellectualism." The other occurs when theology assumes that it possesses the Spirit ex officio, as it were. "The presence and action of the Spirit are the grace of God who is always free." The Spirit cannot be domesticated in the Church or any of its offices. "Only when he is sighed, cried, and prayed for, does he become present and newly active. Veni Creator Spiritus! Come, O come, thou Spirit of Life." From Barth for Beginners by George S. Hendry