Holy Spirit Quotes

“The more the LGBT community comes out of the closet, the more Christians are expected to go into the closet. the irony is too absurd to fathom.”
― Becket Cook, A Change of Affection: A Gay Man's Incredible Story of Redemption

“It is a gross misunderstanding to believe that anything that feels natural is righteous.”
― Becket Cook, A Change of Affection: A Gay Man's Incredible Story of Redemption

“This is the way I address the issue if I’m asked about my sexuality: “I am a follower of Christ who happens to experience same-sex attraction.” Other Christians may struggle with all kinds of sin: gossip, greed, anger, pride, and so on. But I seriously doubt that they would identify themselves as a “greedy” Christian or a “gossiping” Christian. So why would I identity as a “gay” Christian?”
― Becket Cook, A Change of Affection: A Gay Man's Incredible Story of Redemption

“Happiness is flimsy, but the joy of the Lord is rock solid.”
― Becket Cook, A Change of Affection: A Gay Man's Incredible Story of Redemption

“God enters through the cracks of broken hearts, as do the demons when given their way.”
― Criss Jami

“If we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice of sins, but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.”
― Becket Cook, A Change of Affection: A Gay Man's Incredible Story of Redemption

“God created the universe; he can heal sexual brokenness in an instant. But sometimes he allows various struggles to persist, because we are being sanctified. These struggles force us to press into him more and more and depend on his grace to get us “from one degree of glory to another.”
― Becket Cook, A Change of Affection: A Gay Man's Incredible Story of Redemption

“Somewhere in the last decade, “I disagree with you” came to mean “I hate you.”
― Becket Cook, A Change of Affection: A Gay Man's Incredible Story of Redemption

“The most dangerous part of this is that if homosexuality is no longer regarded as a sin, then why would anyone need to repent of it? And if there is no repentance, of course, there is no salvation.”
― Becket Cook, A Change of Affection: A Gay Man's Incredible Story of Redemption

“Everyone has a past, but Jesus is sanctifying our present.”
― Becket Cook, A Change of Affection: A Gay Man's Incredible Story of Redemption

“My motivation for writing this book is not to win a debate. It is not so I could be right and you wrong. More than anything, my hope is that you will come away with a better understanding of this complex issue, from every angle, so you can make informed choices that affect eternity”
― Becket Cook, A Change of Affection: A Gay Man's Incredible Story of Redemption

“Baptism of holy spirit is the necessity of a new birth.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The heart is the slowest thing to heal, but the mind is the hardest thing to renew.”
― A.J. Clark Jr.

“Today is a Blessing.”
― A.J. Clark Jr.

“A friend in need, is a friend indeed, cause we all need Jesus Christ and if he 's aware and understands that then he is a friend in faith.”
― A.J. Clark Jr

“Words can reach and help more people than any amount of money can.”
― A.J. Clark Jr

“Indeed, a woman who has a heart that's bigger than her bosom. One she gives freely and the other she only with her husband.”
― A.J. Clark Jr

“In Jesus name, the Lord will bless me with the talents to purchase this land. I will purchase it and it will be for the Lord and it will be for His people, Amen.”
― A.J. Clark Jr.

“If we need help, we must pray to God to gives us helper, the Holy Spirit.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Men who have the genuine baptism of the spirit carries about a power that beggars description, They are connected to the source of all Power, You cannot be around them and not be inflamed, They don't shout on podium, but when they do, It stems from the source. every expression and emotions is stamped with divinity, You cannot fake it. every Preacher is merely a dramatist without the Power of the Holy ghost”
― Oluseyi Akinbami

“In the creeds common to East and West, references to the Spirit are brief and occasional, at times sounding even perfunctory. In liturgy, one will find many lines praising Father and Son, followed by a phrase “with the Holy Spirit” as a kind of afterthought. Our language is often revealing—the Spirit is a third person in a third place. At times the Spirit can even sound like an appendage to the doctrine of God and a shadowy, ghostly, poor relation of the Trinity.”
― Clark H. Pinnock, Flame of Love: A Theology of the Holy Spirit

“A holy spirit is peace, a kind heart is love, and a calm mind is bliss.”
― Santosh Kumar (San)

“He is eternal, which means that He antedates time and is wholly independent of it. Time began in Him and will end in Him. To it He pays no tribute and from it He suffers no change. He is immutable, which means that He has never changed and can never change in any smallest measure. To change He would need to go from better to worse or from worse to better. He cannot do either, for being perfect He cannot become more perfect, and if He were to become less perfect He would be less than God. He is omniscient, which means that He knows in one free and effortless act all matter, all spirit, all relationships, all events. He has no past and He has no future. He is, and none of the limiting and qualifying terms used of creatures can apply to Him. Love and mercy and righteousness are His, and holiness so ineffable that no comparisons or figures will avail to express it. Only fire can give even a remote conception of it. In fire He appeared at the burning bush; in the pillar of fire He dwelt through all the long wilderness journey. The fire that glowed between the wings of the cherubim in the holy place was called the "shekinah," the Presence, through the years of Israel's glory, and when the Old had given place to the New, He came at Pentecost as a fiery flame and rested upon each disciple.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God”
― a.w.tozer

“The Holy Spirit was left here on earth to lead us into all truth. When we listen and follow the prompting of the Holy Spirit, we won't miss out on opportunities or open doors God sets before us.”
― Brenda Diann Johnson

“There is no such thing as love without pain. Love is committed and very vulnerable. In love, we open our hearts and make the cords of our most tender emotions available to the plucking fingers of other people. In sharing the love of God, it is inevitable that we will also share His suffering.”
― J.T. Pugh, The Wisdom and the Power of the Cross

“Love seeks its life outside itself; self seeks its life in itself. Love, in order to secure and produce, sacrifices selfishness; while self, in order to possess, keeps itself and sacrifices love.”
― J.T. Pugh, The Wisdom and the Power of the Cross: 2020 Edition

“The cross has never been compatible to any culture. Its preaching has always established a counter-culture. Jesus Christ is timeless. He is not the product of any human culture and thus has never been enmeshed in any one culture. He both transforms and transcends culture.”
― J.T. Pugh, The Wisdom and the Power of the Cross: 2020 Edition

“The strongest statement against eternal security is the word of Jesus, "Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, He taketh away: If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered.”
― J.T. Pugh, The Wisdom and the Power of the Cross: 2020 Edition

“We know that the church is God’s earthly body of flesh, which is to manifest or reveal Jesus to the people of this earth. It is God’s instrument of Gospel propagation throughout the world.”
― J.T. Pugh, The Wisdom and the Power of the Cross: 2020 Edition

“The altars that the patriarchs left behind at forsaken campsites must have seemed strange to the inhabitants of the land when they came across them. They were so simple and crude, always made from dirt or unshapen stones of the field. On the top could be found the charred remains of an animal. The heathen were never able to carry away from those abandoned campsites any religious ornamentation or figurine of Israel’s God that the people of Abraham may have misplaced or lost. How strange it must have seemed to the people of the land that these nomads spoke out into the thin air when they prayed. How easy it is to imagine them saying, “I want something that I can look at when I pray. I want something I can hold in my hand!”

What wonder, awe, and fear the strange worship of Israel invoked upon all of Palestine when for forty years they slowly moved around in a barren land where ordinarily no one could survive. It seems that God has always allowed impossible settings for His people. Our Lord has never apologized for expecting His people to do the hard things. God has always seemed inclined to choose the weak things over the strong, the lowly and despised things, the things that are not, that He may bring to nought the things that are.”
― J.T. Pugh, The Wisdom and the Power of the Cross: 2020 Edition