Quotes about Spirit

When the Word of God is living within us through the breath of the Spirit, it begins to manifest its results in our lives. In other words, it becomes more than words on paper or a digital device; it becomes an experience.

Learning to walk or live in the power of the Holy Spirit is the key to victory over sin and temptation. Paul

theology is the serious and joyful attempt to live blessedly with others, before God, in Christ, through the Spirit

The church is biblical, therefore, when it seeks to embody the words in the power of the Spirit and so become a living commentary.

Jesus is a person, not a proposition; however, language is the means the Spirit uses to enable the gospel to become the all-encompassing framework that allows disciples not only to think but also to situate themselves in relation to the truth, goodness, and beauty of what is in Christ.

Pastor-theologians know something that others do not know, and they know it because the Bible tells them so. To be instructed by the Spirit in the school of the Scriptures is to be, as Peter and John had been, "with Jesus." What pastor-theologians know is something quite particular (what God was doing in Christ) but has enormous, even universal, implications.

The church is biblical, therefore, when it seeks to embody the words in the power of the Spirit and so become a living commentary. The church is thus not only the "people of the book" but also "the (lived) interpretation of the book.

The distinct experiential end in question in the church, communion with God and others, neither justifies nor fits many marketing means. The increase of the kingdom of God owes more to the work of the Spirit than to Madison Avenue.

The biblical scholar Wilhelm de Wette generalized the idea: "The spirit of Protestantism . . . leads necessarily to political freedom.

It takes the Word of God plus the Spirit of God to equal the Truth of God.

We received it by asking. This means that even very gifted people are not necessarily mature Christians. They may not even have good character. Therefore, the gifts of the Spirit do not validate our walk with God.

Self-sabotage is the common denominator in all forms of anxiety and depression, whether rooted in the body, soul or spirit.