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> [“The filling of the Holy Spirit brings a sharp separation between the believer and the world. Actually, after Pentecost, they were looking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-w-tozer/the-filling-of-the-holy-spirit-brings-a-sharp-separation-between-the/)

[A.W. Tozer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-w-tozer/)

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> [“In the Orthodox ecclesial experience and tradition a sacrament is understood primarily as a revelation of the genuine nature of creation, of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-schmemann/in-the-orthodox-ecclesial-experience-and-tradition-a-sacrament-is/)

[Alexander Schmemann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-schmemann/)

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> [“Mary is a woman who loves. How could it be otherwise? As a believer who in faith thinks with God's thoughts and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/mary-is-a-woman-who-loves-how-could-it-be-otherwise-as-a-believer-who/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

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> [“Scholars of Acts agree: This movement took place in the power of the Holy Spirit through the lives of ordinary, months-old and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-smith/scholars-of-acts-agree-this-movement-took-place-in-the-power-of-the/)

[Steve Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-smith/)

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> [... the Apostle Peter declared that the Church was built by the Holy Spirit. For you read that he said: 'God, Who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ambrose/the-apostle-peter-declared-that-the-church-was-built-by-the-holy/)

[Ambrose](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ambrose/)

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> [“I know that whatever the complex origins of my own homosexuality are, there have been conscious choices I've made to indulge -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wesley-hill/i-know-that-whatever-the-complex-origins-of-my-own-homosexuality-are/)

[Wesley Hill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wesley-hill/)

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> [Lord, I give up all my own purposes and plans, all my own desires and hopes and ambitions, and accept Thy will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-stam/lord-i-give-up-all-my-own-purposes-and-plans-all-my-own-desires-and/)

[Betty Stam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-stam/)

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> [Faith, Hope & Love. Faith is directed towards God, love towards others (both within the Christian fellowship and beyond it) and hope…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-stott/faith-hope-love-faith-is-directed-towards-god-love-towards-others/)

[John Stott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-stott/)

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> [“The gift and the presence of the Holy Spirit is the greatest and most wonderful thing which we can experience - we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-rgen-moltmann/the-gift-and-the-presence-of-the-holy-spirit-is-the-greatest-and-most/)

[Jürgen Moltmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-rgen-moltmann/)

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> [“I know it was personally right, it was divinely right, for those apostles to hear what Jesus said and to tarry for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/smith-wigglesworth/i-know-it-was-personally-right-it-was-divinely-right-for-those/)

[Smith Wigglesworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/smith-wigglesworth/)

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> [“O my God, I firmly believe that you are one God in three Divine Persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; I believe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/o-my-god-i-firmly-believe-that-you-are-one-god-in-three-divine/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“You will not react, which literally means to act again, as you did in the past. Instead, even if you are being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shanti-christo-foundation/you-will-not-react-which-literally-means-to-act-again-as-you-did-in/)

[Shanti Christo Foundation](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shanti-christo-foundation/)

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> [“Even more richly than in His name and attributes, God has revealed Himself in His Word as the Triune God. In this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-henry-kersten/even-more-richly-than-in-his-name-and-attributes-god-has-revealed/)

[G. Henry Kersten](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-henry-kersten/)

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> [The Holy Spirit gives us joy. And he is joy. Joy is the gift in which all the other gifts are included.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/the-holy-spirit-gives-us-joy-and-he-is-joy-joy-is-the-gift-in-which/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

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> [“Too often, we say we are defeated by this or that sin. No, we are not defeated. We are simply disobedient. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-bridges/too-often-we-say-we-are-defeated-by-this-or-that-sin-no-we-are-not/)

[Jerry Bridges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-bridges/)

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> [“It is a horrible thing that those who oppose Christ oppose themselves and in their opposition to Christ they are bound by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/it-is-a-horrible-thing-that-those-who-oppose-christ-oppose-themselves/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“You can become a saint! The good news is that God wants us all to go to Heaven! There is no greater…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-t-stobb/you-can-become-a-saint-the-good-news-is-that-god-wants-us-all-to-go/)

[John T Stobb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-t-stobb/)

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> [For me, everything is about Jesus and Father and the Holy Spirit, and relationships, and life is an adventure of faith lived…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-p-young/for-me-everything-is-about-jesus-and-father-and-the-holy-spirit-and/)

[William P. Young](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-p-young/)

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> [“THE MEANS OF GOSPEL RENEWAL While the ultimate source of a revival is the Holy Spirit, the Spirit ordinarily uses several “instrumental,”…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-keller/the-means-of-gospel-renewal-while-the-ultimate-source-of-a-revival-is/)

[Timothy Keller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-keller/)

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> [It is so important to see that we are all converted, that we have in our hearts a conviction concerning this great…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-b-hinckley/it-is-so-important-to-see-that-we-are-all-converted-that-we-have-in/)

[Gordon B. Hinckley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-b-hinckley/)

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> [How does God save His people from the pleasure of sin? The answer is, “By imparting to them a nature which hates…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-w-pink/how-does-god-save-his-people-from-the-pleasure-of-sin-the-answer-is/)

[Arthur W. Pink](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-w-pink/)

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> [“Lord deposits something in our spirits that was not there before; and even after He lifts His hand, we carry that burden…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-w-goll/lord-deposits-something-in-our-spirits-that-was-not-there-before-and/)

[James W. Goll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-w-goll/)

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> [Jesus cries out seven times to the seven churches mentioned in the book of Revelation, He who has an ear, let him…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/goddey-wilson/jesus-cries-out-seven-times-to-the-seven-churches-mentioned-in-the/)

[GODDEY WILSON](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/goddey-wilson/)

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> [“It seems to me that in a pastoral situation our first risk is to throw people back on themselves with exhortations and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/it-seems-to-me-that-in-a-pastoral-situation-our-first-risk-is-to/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“Some people pick up on one part of what you say, twist it, and go off into excess and error and create…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-e-hagin-2/some-people-pick-up-on-one-part-of-what-you-say-twist-it-and-go-off/)

[Kenneth E Hagin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-e-hagin-2/)

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> [“Our faith, our conversion, and our eternal salvation, are not of works, lest any man should boast. These things are not brought…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-henry/our-faith-our-conversion-and-our-eternal-salvation-are-not-of-works/)

[Matthew Henry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-henry/)

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> [“Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/the-writers-of-encouraging-com/those-who-live-according-to-the-sinful-nature-have-their-minds-set-on/)

[The writers of Encouraging.com](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/the-writers-of-encouraging-com/)

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> [“It is necessary to protect precious silence from all parasitical noise. The noise of our “ego”, which never stops claiming its rights,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-sarah/it-is-necessary-to-protect-precious-silence-from-all-parasitical/)

[Robert Sarah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-sarah/)

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> [“The fellowship of the Holy Spirit . . . means participation -- partaking with and subsequently sharing with others. This fellowship is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-hon/the-fellowship-of-the-holy-spirit-means-participation-partaking-with/)

[Henry Hon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-hon/)

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> [“...I have had a remarkable experience. In the past the prophetic voice to which I have become accustomed has always been my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/socrates/i-have-had-a-remarkable-experience-in-the-past-the-prophetic-voice-to/)

[Socrates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/socrates/)

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> [“Over what do I have control? A few very important things. My thoughts, which I can take captive by the power of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jen-wilkin/over-what-do-i-have-control-a-few-very-important-things-my-thoughts/)

[Jen Wilkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jen-wilkin/)

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> [“But how to be present to another? Our hearts are so hard. We are so insensitive to the suffering of others. We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-vanier/but-how-to-be-present-to-another-our-hearts-are-so-hard-we-are-so/)

[Jean Vanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-vanier/)

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> [“Glorious Triune God—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—I praise you for the incalculable riches of redemption you’ve lavished on us in the gospel.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scotty-smith/glorious-triune-god-father-son-and-holy-spirit-i-praise-you-for-the/)

[Scotty Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scotty-smith/)

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> [“The Holy Spirit becoming an inhabitant, is a vital principle in the soul: he, acting in, upon and with the soul, becomes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-edwards/the-holy-spirit-becoming-an-inhabitant-is-a-vital-principle-in-the/)

[Jonathan Edwards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-edwards/)

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> [“The early Christians took this story and used it as the backdrop for the doctrine of ‘The Trinity.’ For me, though, this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-overby/the-early-christians-took-this-story-and-used-it-as-the-backdrop-for/)

[Eric Overby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-overby/)

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> [I want you to keep in mind that I'm still in the process of changing, I'm going to share with you my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-wimber/i-want-you-to-keep-in-mind-that-i-m-still-in-the-process-of-changing/)

[John Wimber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-wimber/)

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> [To ignore, repress, or dismiss our feelings is to fail to listen to the stirrings of the Spirit within our emotional life.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brennan-manning/to-ignore-repress-or-dismiss-our-feelings-is-to-fail-to-listen-to-the/)

[Brennan Manning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brennan-manning/)

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> [Any tear shed in sharing the heartbeat of God, any tear shed through Christlike loving empathy with our fellowmen, any tear born…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wesley-l-duewel/any-tear-shed-in-sharing-the-heartbeat-of-god-any-tear-shed-through/)

[Wesley L Duewel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wesley-l-duewel/)

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> [“Romans 1 Greetings from Paul This letter is from Paul, a slave of Christ Jesus, chosen by God to be an apostle…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/romans-1-greetings-from-paul-this-letter-is-from-paul-a-slave-of/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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                        "text": "“In the Orthodox ecclesial experience and tradition a sacrament is understood primarily as a revelation of the genuine nature of creation, of the world, which, however much it has fallen as \"this world,\" will remain God's world, awaiting salvation, redemption, healing and transfiguration in a new earth and a new heaven. In other words, in the Orthodox experience a sacrament is primarily a revelation of the sacramentality of creation itself, for the world was created and given to man for conversion of creaturely life into participation in divine life. If in baptism water can become a \"laver of regeneration,\" if our earthy food - bread and wine - can be transformed into partaking of the body and blood of Christ, if with oil we are granted the anointment of the Holy Spirit, if, to put it briefly, everything in the world can be identified, manifested and understood as a gift of God and participation in the new life, it is because all of creation was originally summoned and destined for the fulfillment of the divine economy - \"then God will be all in all.”",
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                        "text": "“Mary is a woman who loves. How could it be otherwise? As a believer who in faith thinks with God's thoughts and wills with God's will, she cannot fail to be a woman who loves. We sense this in her quiet gestures, as recounted by the infancy narratives in the Gospel. We see it in the delicacy with which she recognizes the need of the spouses at Cana and makes it known to Jesus. We see it in the humility with which she recedes into the background during Jesus' public life, knowing that the Son must establish a new family and that the Mother's hour will come only with the Cross, which will be Jesus' true hour (cf. Jn 2:4; 13:1). When the disciples flee, Mary will remain beneath the Cross (cf. Jn 19:25-27); later, at the hour of Pentecost, it will be they who gather around her as they wait for the Holy Spirit (cf. Acts 1:14).”",
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                        "text": "“Scholars of Acts agree: This movement took place in the power of the Holy Spirit through the lives of ordinary, months-old and even weeks-old believers as they were equipped by the apostles and other believers. A discipleship revolution ignited a firestorm of loving evangelistic zeal and fervent obedience that took the kingdom into the remotest corners of the known world in a period of years and decades, not centuries!”",
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                        "text": "... the Apostle Peter declared that the Church was built by the Holy Spirit. For you read that he said: 'God, Who knows the hearts of men, bore witness, giving them the Holy Spirit, even as was given to us; and He made no distinction between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith' (Acts 15:8-9). In which is to be considered, that as Christ is the Cornerstone, Who joined together both peoples into one, so, too, the Holy Spirit made no distinction between the hearts of each people, but united them.",
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                        "text": "“I know that whatever the complex origins of my own homosexuality are, there have been conscious choices I've made to indulge - and therefore to intensify, probably - my homoerotic inclinations. As I look back over the course of my life, I regret the nights I have given in to temptations to lust that pulsed like hot, itching sores in my mind. And so I cling to this image - washed. I am washed, sanctified, justified through the work of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. Whenever I look back on my baptism, I can remember that God has cleansed the stains of homosexual sin from the crevasses of my mind, heart, and body and included me in his family, the church, where I can find support, comfort, and provocation toward Christian maturity.”",
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                        "text": "Lord, I give up all my own purposes and plans, all my own desires and hopes and ambitions, and accept Thy will for my life. I give myself, my life, my all utterly to Thee, to be Thine forever. I hand over to Thy keeping all my friendships; all the people whom I love are to take a second place in my heart. Fill me and seal me with Thy Holy Spirit. Work out Thy whole will in my life, at any cost, now and forever.",
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                        "text": "Faith, Hope & Love.  Faith is directed towards God, love towards others (both within the Christian fellowship and beyond it) and hope towards the future, in particular, the glorious coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.  Similarly, faith rests of the past; love works in the present; hope looks to the future.  Every Christian without exception is a believer, a lover and a hoper.  Faith, hope and love are three sure evidences of regeneration by the Holy Spirit.",
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                        "text": "“The gift and the presence of the Holy Spirit is the greatest and most wonderful thing which we can experience - we ourselves, the human community, all living things and this earth. For with the Holy Spirit it is not just one random spirit that is present, among all the many good and evil spirits that there are. It is God himself, the creative and life-giving, redeeming and saving God. Where the Holy Spirit is present, God is present in a special way, and we experience God through our lives, which become wholly living from within. We experience whole, full, healed and redeemed life, experience it with all our senses. We feel and taste, we touch and see our life in God and God in our life.”",
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                        "text": "“I know it was personally right, it was divinely right, for those apostles to hear what Jesus said and to tarry for the Holy Spirit; however, it is not right now to tarry for the Holy Spirit. Then why do we not all receive the Holy Spirit, you ask? Because our bodies are not ready for it; our temples are not cleansed. When our temples are purified and our minds are put in order so that carnalities and fleshly desires and everything contrary to the Spirit have gone, then the Holy Spirit can take full charge. The Holy Spirit is not a manifestation of carnality. There are any number of people who never read the Word of God who could not be led away by the powers of Satan. But the power of the Holy Spirit is most lovely, divine in all its construction. It is a great refiner. It is full of life, but it is always divine—never natural. If you deal in the flesh after you are baptized in the Holy Spirit, you cease to go on. Beloved, I want to speak about something greater; something to lift your minds, elevate your thoughts, and bring you into divine ways; something that elevates you out of yourself and into God, out of the world and into a place where you know you have rest for your feet, where you cease from your own works (Heb. 4:10), and where God works in you mightily “to will and to do for His good pleasure” (Phil. 2:13). When I think about a river—a pure, holy, divine river—I say, “What can stand against its inrush?” Wherever it is—in a railway coach, in the street, or in a meeting—its power and flow will always be felt; it will always do its work. Jesus spoke about the Holy Spirit that was to be given. I want you to think about how God gave it, how its coming was manifested, and its reception and its outflow after it had come.”",
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                        "text": "“O my God, I firmly believe that you are one God in three Divine Persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; I believe that your Divine Son became man, and died for our sins, and that He will come to judge the living and the dead. I believe these and all the truths the Holy Catholic Church teaches because You have revealed them, who can neither deceive nor be deceived. An Act of Hope With God we are reminded that there is no place for despair regardless of what life throws in our path. There is always a light at the end of the tunnel, even when the tunnel seems endless. The Act of Hope prayer reminds us of this. O my God, relying on Your almighty power and infinite mercy and promises, I hope to obtain pardon of my sins, the help of Your grace, and life everlasting, through the merits of Jesus Christ, my Lord and Redeemer. An Act of Love Love is one of God’s greatest gifts to us. Love is one of three theological virtues, along with faith and hope.”",
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                        "text": "“You will not react, which literally means to act again, as you did in the past. Instead, even if you are being persecuted (or to speak from personal experience, to be nailed upon a cross), you will have cultivated the ability to love. And in all situations, no matter what another is doing, your first response will be to enter into the quiet stillness within and merely ask the Holy Spirit: What would you have me say? What is most appropriate for this other soul in this moment? For when forgiveness has purified the mind and the heart and the emotional field of your own being, you will discover that you exist only to extend Love.”",
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                        "text": "“Even more richly than in His name and attributes, God has revealed Himself in His Word as the Triune God. In this revelation He reveals the great mystery, far beyond the comprehension of all creatures, that His simple Divine Essence consists in three Persons; and that not in such a way that each of the three persons would possess one part of the Divine Essence, so that by combining they would form the full God-head; but God is a simple Being, and thus is far from being a combination of parts. God consists not of three Persons, but in three Persons; the full Being of God is in the Father, and the same full Being is in the Son, and in the Holy Spirit. The Father is God; the Son is God, no less than the Father; and the Holy Spirit is God, of the same eternity, glory, and majesty as the Father and Son. Among the Divine Persons there is not a first or last, nor is one greater or less. And still there is but one, simple, Divine Being. God is Tri-une.”",
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                        "text": "“Too often, we say we are defeated by this or that sin. No, we are not defeated. We are simply disobedient. It might be good if we stop using the terms victory and defeat to describe our progress in holiness. Rather, we should use the terms obedience and disobedience. When I say I am defeated by some sin, I am unconsciously slipping out from under my responsibility. I am saying something outside of me has defeated me. But when I say I am disobedient, that places the responsibility for my sin squarely on me. We may in fact be defeated, but the reason we are defeated is because we have chosen to disobey. We need to brace ourselves up and to realize that we are responsible for thoughts, attitudes, and actions. We need to reckon on the fact that we died to sin's reign, that it no longer has any dominion over us, that God has united us with the risen Christ in all His power and has given us the Holy Spirit to work in us. Only as we accept our responsibility and appropriate God's provisions will we make any progress in our pursuit of holiness.”",
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                        "text": "“It is a horrible thing that those who oppose Christ oppose themselves and in their opposition to Christ they are bound by Satan and enslaved by his lies and temptations. We may rightly say; \"I once was blind but now I see.\" Now as we have been enlightened by the Holy Spirit we should be able to care enough about those who are still bound to pray that God would have the same mercy on them that he has given freely to us.\" C R Lord 2017”",
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                        "text": "“You can become a saint! The good news is that God wants us all to go to Heaven! There is no greater proof than the gift of His Son, Jesus Christ. We, the baptized, have been entrusted with all the grace necessary to become a saint through the Holy Eucharist. Bus as if that was not enough, He gives us the ability to be Jesus' hands and feet on the Earth through the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit, the example of how to live those out through the lives of the saints, and the tremendous graces available through devotions approved by the Magisterium of the Holy Roman Catholic Church. Don't miss the opportunity!”",
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                        "text": "For me, everything is about Jesus and Father and the Holy Spirit, and relationships, and life is an adventure of faith lived one day at a time. Any aspirations, visions and dreams died a long time ago and I have absolutely no interest in resurrecting them (they would stink by now anyway). I have finally figured out that I have nothing to lose by living a life of faith. I know more joy every minute of every day than seems appropriate, but I love the wastefulness of my Father's grace and presence. For me, everything in my life that matters, is perfect!",
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                        "text": "“THE MEANS OF GOSPEL RENEWAL While the ultimate source of a revival is the Holy Spirit, the Spirit ordinarily uses several “instrumental,” or penultimate, means to produce revival. EXTRAORDINARY PRAYER To kindle every revival, the Holy Spirit initially uses what Jonathan Edwards called “extraordinary prayer” — united, persistent, and kingdom centered. Sometimes it begins with a single person or a small group of people praying for God’s glory in the community. What is important is not the number of people praying but the nature of the praying. C. John Miller makes a helpful and perceptive distinction between “maintenance” and “frontline” prayer meetings.1 Maintenance prayer meetings are short, mechanical, and focused on physical needs inside the church. In contrast, the three basic traits of frontline prayer are these: 1. A request for grace to confess sins and to humble ourselves 2. A compassion and zeal for the flourishing of the church and the reaching of the lost 3. A yearning to know God, to see his face, to glimpse his glory These distinctions are unavoidably powerful. If you pay attention at a prayer meeting, you can tell quite clearly whether these traits are present. In the biblical prayers for revival in Exodus 33; Nehemiah 1; and Acts 4, the three elements of frontline prayer are easy to see. Notice in Acts 4, for example, that after the disciples were threatened by the religious authorities, they asked not for protection for themselves and their families but only for boldness to keep preaching! Some kind of extraordinary prayer beyond the normal services and patterns of prayer is always involved.”",
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                        "text": "It is so important to see that we are all converted, that we have in our hearts a conviction concerning this great work. It is not a matter of the head only. It is a matter of the heart. It is being touched by the Holy Spirit until we know that this work is true, that Joseph Smith was verily a prophet of God, that God lives and that Jesus Christ lives and that they appeared to the boy Joseph Smith, that the Book of Mormon is true, that the priesthood is here with all of its gifts and blessings.",
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                        "text": "How does God save His people from the pleasure of sin? The answer is, “By imparting to them a nature which hates evil and loves holiness.” This takes place when they are born again, so that actual salvation begins with regeneration. Of course it does; where else could it commence? Fallen man can neither perceive his desperate need of salvation, nor come to Christ for it, till he has been renewed by the Holy Spirit.",
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                        "text": "“Lord deposits something in our spirits that was not there before; and even after He lifts His hand, we carry that burden as a word or commission from Him. He lays on us a “burden” for a particular situation, and we may carry that impartation for days, weeks, months, or even years. For example, it might be a burden over the abortion situation in the United States. God’s hand comes upon us and then departs, leaving behind a supernatural enablement of grace, a Holy Spirit endowment to prophesy and intercede in a way we never could before. I have addressed this theme thoroughly in my book Kneeling on the Promises: Birthing God’s Purposes Through Prophetic Intercession.”",
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                        "text": "Jesus cries out seven times to the seven churches mentioned in the book of Revelation, He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The Holy Spirit is speaking to Gods people. For those who listen and obey, they are about to move forward into the greatest outpouring of Gods Spirit that the world has ever known. But this is what I commanded them, saying, 'Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be My people. And walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well with you. Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but followed the counsels and the dictates of their evil hearts, and went backward and not forward. (Jeremiah 7:23-24 NKJV)",
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                        "text": "“It seems to me that in a pastoral situation our first risk is to throw people back on themselves with exhortations and instructions as to what to do, and how to do it... [Actually we are] to direct people to the Gospel of Grace—to Jesus Christ, that they might look to Him to lead them, open their hearts in faith and in prayer, and to draw them by the Spirit into His eternal life of communion with the Father”",
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                        "text": "“Some people pick up on one part of what you say, twist it, and go off into excess and error and create confusion in the Body of Christ. There will probably be those who will read this book and take what I am saying out of context and get off into error. However, misguided people prone to error should not keep us from flowing with what is Biblical and right. It should not keep us from flowing with what the Holy Spirit is wanting to teach the Body of Christ in this hour! I believe that those who have ears to hear will hear what the Spirit is saying to the Church in this hour and will cooperate with Him to help usher in the move of God all of our hearts so earnestly desire.”",
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                        "text": "“Our faith, our conversion, and our eternal salvation, are not of works, lest any man should boast. These things are not brought to pass by any thing done by us, therefore all boasting is shut out. All is the free gift of God, and the effect of being quickened by his power. It was his purpose, to which he prepared us, by blessing us with the knowledge of his will, and his Holy Spirit producing such a change in us, that we should glorify God by our good conversation, and perseverance in holiness.”",
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                        "text": "“Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires.—Romans 8:5 What is a butterfly garden? It is first a flower garden. But it is also a garden where all the plants are selected to attract and support butterflies. How do you plant a butterfly garden? You begin with a list of the flowers and shrubs that will attract certain butterflies. One thing you will discover on your first visit to the plant nursery is that some really beautiful flowers aren’t on the list. And some others, which aren’t as spectacular to the human eye, are butterfly magnets. If you just want flowers, plant whatever you wish. But if you want to attract butterflies, the butterflies make the rules. To sit on your porch and look out at a garden is a wonderful thing. That same garden with yellow, black, orange, and blue butterflies flitting and hovering among the flowers is another thing entirely. It is a firsthand witness to the joyous partnership between two of God’s most beautiful creations. For those who don’t understand, the Christian life can also look like a list—a list of rights and wrongs, rules and prohibitions. However, like my butterfly list, the point is not limitation but life. In the garden of the Christian, life is nurtured as the Holy Spirit freely moves without hindrance, guiding us”",
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                        "text": "“It is necessary to protect precious silence from all parasitical noise. The noise of our “ego”, which never stops claiming its rights, plunging us into an excessive preoccupation with ourselves. The noise of our memory, which draws us toward the past, that of our recollections or of our sins. The noise of temptations or of acedia, the spirit of gluttony, lust, avarice, anger, sadness, vanity, pride—in short: everything that makes up the spiritual combat that man must wage every day. In order to silence these parasitical noises, in order to consume everything in the sweet flame of the Holy Spirit, silence is the supreme antidote.”",
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                        "text": "“The fellowship of the Holy Spirit . . . means participation -- partaking with and subsequently sharing with others. This fellowship is not just for reaching individual believers, but that every individual who participates also shares with others. If the love of God and the grace of Christ, that believers receive, do not reach others, the fellowship of the Holy Spirit is stifled . . . The fellowship of the Spirit is persistently seeking to expand, to include more partakers and dispensers of grace and love.”",
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                        "text": "“...I have had a remarkable experience. In the past the prophetic voice to which I have become accustomed has always been my constant companion, opposing me even in quite trivial things if I was going to take the wrong course. Now something has happened to me, as you can see, which might be thought and is commonly considered to be a supreme calamity; yet neither when I left home this morning, nor when I was taking my place here in court, nor at any point in any part of my speech did the divine sign oppose me. In other discussions it has often checked me in the middle of a sentence; but this time it has never opposed me in any part of this business in anything that I have said or done. What do I suppose to be the explanation? I will tell you. I suspect that this thing that has happened to me is a blessing, and we are quite mistaken in supposing death to be an evil. I have good grounds for thinking this, because my accustomed sign could not have failed to oppose me if what I was doing had not been sure to bring some good result.”",
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                        "text": "“Over what do I have control? A few very important things. My thoughts, which I can take captive by the power of the Holy Spirit. And if I can control my thoughts, it follows that I can control my attitude—toward my body, my stuff, my relationships, and my circumstances. If my thoughts and attitude are in control, my words will be as well, and my actions. The redeemed obediently submit thought, word, and deed to their heavenly Ruler, trusting uncertainty to him who “works all things according to the counsel of his will” (Eph 1:11). They step away from the throne, acknowledging that they are utterly unqualified to fill ”",
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                        "text": "“But how to be present to another? Our hearts are so hard. We are so insensitive to the suffering of others. We must pray the Holy Spirit to change our hearts of stone into hearts of flesh so that we may give life, for love is giving of life and liberty. By our confidence in another we can bring forth new aspirations and a taste for life in him. We can help the miserable person to live, to progress and to grow. And he will only begin to want to live when he has been told by our gestures, words, the tone of our voice, our look, our whole being that it is important that he live.”",
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                        "text": "“Glorious Triune God—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—I praise you for the incalculable riches of redemption you’ve lavished on us in the gospel. Father, for planning such a stunning salvation; Jesus, for accomplishing all things necessary for our complete salvation; Holy Spirit, for faithfully applying the work of Jesus to us. I wish I had adequate words to express my gratitude, but my words fail me.”",
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                        "text": "“The Holy Spirit becoming an inhabitant, is a vital principle in the soul: he, acting in, upon and with the soul, becomes a fountain of true holiness and joy, as a spring is of water, by the exertion and diffusion of itself: John iv. 14, “But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him, shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him, shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life,”—compared”",
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                        "text": "“The early Christians took this story and used it as the backdrop for the doctrine of ‘The Trinity.’ For me, though, this myth has nothing to do with the belief in the father, son, and holy spirit. Rublev’s hospitality icon is important to me because by receiving the three strangers, Abraham and Sarah further their own narrative. The story of the strangers gets intertwined with Abraham and Sarah and they learn something new about themselves. This icon is a reminder to me to be welcoming and hospitable to strangers. It helps me remember that every stranger has a story. I kept this myth in mind, when a group of young Mormons came walking down the street and knocked on my door. I offered for them to come in and eat. Did I become Mormon? No. I did have them over three times to understand them and learn what it was like to be Mormon and to be them personally. Does this mean that you should let every stranger in your house because it says that Abraham did? No, definitely do not do that. Just like I get to choose what to get out of a myth, I get to choose when to apply it. I am admittedly a nerd and like to discuss beliefs and theology. I like to learn about people and different ways to think and live. This comes with an openness to new people in certain situations. Being open and hospitable to new people and ideas can help you understand yourself and other people. It can further your narrative and expand your viewpoints.”",
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                        "text": "I want you to keep in mind that I'm still in the process of changing, I'm going to share with you my viewpoint today, I may change it in 2 weeks or in 2 years, I don't know...I'm just not sure I've yet fully worked out a scenario that I can live with long term. But here are my best thoughts on the subject...From time to time we will have a valid experience with an invalid label. At this time my perception is that that is what has occurred with the issue of the baptism of the Holy Spirit...At this point in time I have come full circle from an evangelical theology of filling of the Spirit, through an experience and a theology that embraced what we would call classic Pentecostal...now I've come back to a place where I think I started theologically, but I've added a dimension of experience.",
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                        "text": "To ignore, repress, or dismiss our feelings is to fail to listen to the stirrings of the Spirit within our emotional life. Jesus listened. In John's Gospel we are told that Jesus was moved with the deepest emotions (11:33)... The gospel portrait of the beloved Child of Abba is that of a man exquisitely attuned to His emotions and uninhibited in expressing them. The Son of Man did not scorn of reject feelings as fickle and unreliable. They were sensitive antennae to which He listened carefully and through which He perceived the will of His Father for congruent speech and action.",
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                        "text": "Any tear shed in sharing the heartbeat of God, any tear shed through Christlike loving empathy with our fellowmen, any tear born of the yearning constraint of the Holy Spirit is a tear by which we serve the Lord. Nothing pleases Christ more than for us to share with Him His burden for the world and its people. Nothing so weds us to the heart of Christ as our tears shed as we intercede for lost ones with Him. Then truly we become people after God's own heart. Then we begin to know what it is to be Christ's prayer partners.",
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