Believer Quote by Jonathan Edwards

In spite of our sinfulness, in spite of the darkness surrounding our souls, the Grace of the Holy Spirit, conferred by baptism in the…

— Anonymous

Every soul that is born into flesh is soiled by the filth of wickedness and sin. . . . In the Church, baptism is…

— Origen

“The Holy Spirit becoming an inhabitant, is a vital principle in the soul: he, acting in, upon and with the soul, becomes a fountain…

— Jonathan Edwards

... for our sake loosing within Himself the bonds of bodily birth, He granted us through spiritual birth, according to our own volition, power…

— Maximus the Confessor

It is this one Spirit who makes it possible for an infant to be regenerated . . . when that infant is brought to…

— Saint Augustine

Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses to the body, inasmuch…

— William Ames

“The Holy Spirit sanctifies the soul.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Just as a man cannot live in the flesh unless he is born in the flesh, even so a man cannot have the spiritual…

— Thomas Aquinas

Believe me, there is no more powerful means to obtain God's grace than to employ the intercessions of the Holy Virgin.

— Philip Neri

“The Spirit of God draws or leads the sinner from one phase to another, gradually, in proportion as one is found having a disposition…

— Thomas C. Oden

And each one is a partaker of this spiritual origin in regeneration; and to every one when he is re-born, the water of baptism…

— Pope Leo I

The Holy Ghost is manifested to men and women on the earth both as the power and as the gift of the Holy Ghost.…

— David A. Bednar