Pneumatology Quotes

“Without God's Spirit, there is nothing we can do that will count for God's kingdom. Without God's Spirit, the church simply can't be the church.”
― N.T. Wright

“For by a kind of mutual bond the Lord has joined together the certainty of his Word and of his Spirit so that the perfect religion of the Word may abide in our minds when the Spirit, who causes us to contemplate God's face, shines.”
― John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols

“The kingdom of God draws near over all the earth. God is near wherever a complete reversal of all things is sought–the reversal that brings his rule with it. His kingdom has no territorial boundaries.”
― Eberhard Arnold, The Inner Life (Inner Land #1)

“Every impoverishment and sickening of our inner being means a loss of warmth and depth, a loss that shows up plainly in all our efforts and activities. Every healing of the inner life leads to loving sacrifice, that is, to purer and more vigorous action.”
― Eberhard Arnold, The Inner Life (Inner Land #1)

“In the work of conversion, the Holy Spirit renews the heart by giving it a divine temper, and it is one and the same divine temper thus wrought in the heart, that flows out in love both to God and man.”
― Jonathan Edwards, Charity and Its Fruits: Christian Love as Manifested in the Heart and Life

“Just as modern climatology helps us estimate weather patterns, the Holy Spirit helps us learn about God through Scripture and prayer.”
― James Collazo, First-Century Faith: Reviving Christian Origins in Belief and Practice