Quotes about Spirit

God has called us to be humble servants committed to a local expression of Christ's Body, diligently studying the Scriptures, praying daily, and being led by the Spirit of Truth into His purposes and individual will for our lives.

For God did not give us a spirit of timidity (of cowardice, of craven and cringing and fawning fear), but [He has given us a spirit] of power and of love and of calm and well-balanced mind and discipline and self-control (2 Timothy 1:7 AMP)

In the midst of all this, he gives us a revolutionary concept concerning the central issue of what authentic prophetic ministry is all about: Worship God! Worship God, and you will be walking in the opposite spirit from that of this world. And as you worship God, someone—the great Someone—will inhabit your praises,

There is a kind of gospel being proclaimed today which conveniently accommodates itself to the spirit of the age, and makes no demand for godliness.

Anything we accomplish of eternal value is brought about by the ability and empowerment of the Holy Spirit.

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.

To keep a kind of republic of the spirit—that's what I call success.

There were in her at the moment two beings, one drawing deep breaths of freedom and exhilaration, the other gasping for air in a little black prison-house of fears. But gradually the captive's gasps grew fainter, or the other paid less heed to them: the horizon expanded, the air grew stronger, and the free spirit quivered for flight.

she was like a disembodied spirit who took up a great deal of room.

Soul is more bruisable than flesh, and Juila was wounded in every fiber of her spirit.

I wished to warn the people against the greatest of all evils,—a blind and furious spirit of innovation, under the name of reform.

Yet weakness—or neediness—is a valuable asset in God's community. Jesus introduced a new era in which weakness is the new strength. Anything that reminds us that we are dependent on God and other people is a good thing. Otherwise, we trick ourselves into thinking that we are self-sufficient, and arrogance is sure to follow. We need help, and God has given us his Spirit and each other to provide it.