Holy Spirit

That "You are a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you.

And again, if the sword of the Spirit is the word of God, the Holy Spirit is God;

And about the adorable and holy Trinity let so much be said by us for the present;

And to be counted worthy of the Holy Spirit and to become sons of God is the last and highest of all things to be desired;

And when he had accomplished the whole dispensation in the flesh on our behalf — taking upon himself the cross and death, and, beyond all wonder, making one the things of earth with the things of heaven — and had risen from the dead and been taken up in glory into the heavens, and had sat down at the right hand of the majesty of the Father, he sent forth the Spirit, the Comforter, upon those who h …

' And the Holy Spirit came down upon him in the form of a dove.

Do not cast me away from your presence, and do not take your Holy Spirit from me.

The Spirit bears witness to what has been said, through Ezekiel, saying:

and hope does not put to shame, because the love of God is poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit given to us.

" Now the Word is framed by the Spirit, and, so to say, the Spirit is the body of the Word.

"For I will ask the Father," he says, "and he will send you another advocate, the Spirit of truth.

Let this be said also for me with regard to the third stage, since I judge the Spirit to be from no other source than from the Father through the Son.

for the mouth of the Lord, the Holy Spirit, has spoken these things.

the Word of God shall steer you, and the Holy Spirit shall bring you to anchor in the harbours of the heavens.

" Thus, tending through that ascent to the heavenly kingdoms, the Spirit marvels, saying, "They fly as those who are kites, as the clouds fly, and as the young of doves" — to me, namely, simply as doves.

"For the Lord of Sabaoth has taken away from Judea and from Jerusalem, among the rest, both the prophet and the wise architect" — namely the Holy Spirit, who builds the Church, namely the temple and house and city of God.

from whom not even the worldly spirit is furnished, or from whom even the angels are made spirits, whose spirit too in the beginning was borne over the waters?

To whom is the Holy Spirit imparted without the sacrament of faith?

For an ecstasy fell upon him, the operative power of the Holy Spirit, which is prophecy.

There is among us at this present day a sister who has been allotted the gifts of revelations, which she experiences in the church amid the Lord's solemnities through ecstasy in the Spirit;

And therefore the majesty of the Holy Spirit, perceptive of such notions, suggests even in the same epistle to the Thessalonians:

where the demonic onsets with the Holy Spirit — the devil himself with his angels now plunged into the fires?

But since it was not fitting that the Holy Spirit should dissemble, but that He should overflow even with words of this kind, which should scatter the seeds of no heretics' cunning — nay, should pluck up even their old turfs — therefore He has now dispelled all former ambiguities, and whatever parables they will, by an open and perspicuous preaching of the whole sacrament, overflowing through the …

For if the Christian is he who, having received from God the Father a substance — surely of baptism, surely of the Holy Spirit, and thence of eternal hope — and having wandered far from the Father, squanders it by living after the heathen manner;

When first the Gospel thundered and shook the old things, so that it was disputed concerning the standing of the law, whether or not it was to be retained, the apostles send forth this first rule, on the authority of the Holy Spirit, to those who had begun to be chosen out from the nations:

For the Church itself, properly and principally, is the Spirit himself, in whom is the Trinity of the one divinity — Father and Son and Holy Spirit.

to condemn the things past and to ask of the Father an amnesty for them—who alone of all is able to make what has been done as though undone, blotting out the former sins by His own mercy and the dew of the Spirit.

To whom, through His Son Jesus Christ, the Lord of the living and the dead, and through the Holy Spirit, be glory, honour, power, eternal majesty, both now and unto generations of generations and unto the ages of the ages.

and they rave about the poor flesh, which they despise as weak, being blind to the possessions within, not knowing how great a treasure we carry in an earthen vessel, walled about by the power of God the Father and the blood of God the Son and the dew of the Holy Spirit.

his holy water, baptizing of bells, conjuring of spirits, crossing, saning, anointing, conjuring, hallowing of God’s good creatures, with the superstitious opinion joined therewith;

First, then, blessed ones, do not grieve the Holy Spirit, who entered the prison with you.

You are about to enter a noble contest, in which the living God is the president of the games, the Holy Spirit the master of the arena, the prize a crown of eternity, of angelic substance, citizenship in the heavens, glory for ever and ever.

And indeed the Holy Spirit so constituted this rationale of his own Scripture, that, when anything comes to be out of something, he relates both what comes to be and from what it comes to be.

He who makes firm the thunder and founds the Spirit, and announces to men his Christ — showing that Spirit to have been founded which was reckoned among the things founded on earth, which was borne over the waters, the poiser and inbreather and animator of the universe — not, as some suppose, signifying God himself as that Spirit, because God is Spirit;

Undoubtedly, by not receiving Christ, the fountain of the water of life, they began to have broken cisterns — that is, synagogues in the dispersions of the nations, in which the Holy Spirit no longer dwells, as it dwelt of old in the temple before the coming of Christ, who is the true temple of God.

namely, that the Spirit of God, which from the beginning was borne over them, was to abide over the waters of the baptized.

And the earth was invisible and unformed, and darkness was over the abyss, and the Spirit of the Lord was borne over the waters.

Not that in the waters we attain the Holy Spirit, but, cleansed in the water under the angel, we are made ready for the Holy Spirit.

when he enjoins continence, he affirms the counsel of the Holy Spirit.

For this cause the Holy Spirit, when the apostles then consulted, relaxed for us the bond and yoke, that we might be free to shun idolatry.

Therefore the Holy Spirit, foreseeing this from the beginning, foresang through the most ancient prophet Enoch that even doors would come into superstition.

For your god is your belly, and your lung is your temple, and your paunch is your altar, and your priest is the cook, and the Holy Spirit is the steam, and the seasonings are the charismata, and your belching is the prophecy.

He reprobates also those who command to abstain from foods—but out of the providence of the Holy Spirit, condemning beforehand the heretics who would enjoin a perpetual abstinence to destroy and despise the works of the Creator:

The Holy Spirit, when in whatever lands He willed and through whomsoever He willed He was preaching, out of His providence of impending trials—whether of the Church or of worldly calamities—inasmuch as He is the Paraclete, that is, the advocate to entreat the Judge, enjoined the remedies of such offices:

The Holy Spirit was first poured out upon the assembled disciples at the third hour.

The Spirit of God, and the Word of God, and the Reason of God — the Word of Reason and the Reason of the Word, and both the Spirit — that is, Jesus Christ our Lord, has marked out for us, the disciples of the New Testament, a new form of prayer.

" He showed that those were ignorant of nothing whom he had promised would attain all truth through the Spirit of truth.

For in the end he charges them to go and teach and baptize the nations, who were soon to receive the Holy Spirit the Paraclete, who would lead them into all truth.

The Holy Spirit had already then foreseen that in a certain virgin Philumene there would be an angel of seduction, transfiguring himself into an angel of light, by whose signs and tricks Apelles, being led on, introduced a new heresy.

Of which the Holy Spirit, wishing there to be no dispute, willed that under the one name of "woman" the virgin too should be understood—whom, by not naming her properly, He did not separate from the woman;

Whereas it was for this cause that the Lord sent the Paraclete, that, since human mediocrity could not take in all things at once, discipline should be gradually directed and set in order and brought to perfection by that Vicar of the Lord, the Holy Spirit.