Who Is The Holy Spirit? Quotes

“To be spiritually dead is to be worldly. It is to buy into and follow slavishly the values and customs of the secular culture. Not only do the spiritually dead follow the course of this world, they follow “the prince of the power of the air”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is The Holy Spirit?

“It distresses me somewhat to hear a person say, “I am a born-again Christian.” What’s wrong with such a statement? Well, what other kind of Christian is there? If rebirth is absolutely essential in order to get into the kingdom of God, as Jesus said it is, there cannot be such a thing as a non-born-again Christian. To say “born-again Christian” is like saying “Christian Christian.” It’s a redundancy, a kind of theological stuttering.”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is The Holy Spirit?

“The study of theology is simply the study of the character of God, whose crowning virtue is love. Sound theology actually teaches the central importance of love and inclines us to love the God of the Scriptures and other people as well.”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is The Holy Spirit?

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― R.C. Sproul, Who Is the Holy Spirit?

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― R.C. Sproul, Who Is the Holy Spirit?

“Luchar por la verdad de Dios es un acto de amor, no una señal de falta de amor. Si amamos a Dios, si amamos a Cristo, si amamos la iglesia, debemos amar la verdad que define la esencia misma del cristianismo.”
― R.C. Sproul, ¿Quién Es el Espíritu Santo?

“Helper, to be with you forever” (John 14:16). Some translations use the word “Comforter” instead of “Helper.” The Greek word that is translated as “Helper” or “Comforter” is parakletos; it is the source of the English word paraclete. This word includes a prefix, para-, that means “alongside,” and a root that is a form of the verb kletos, which means “to call.” So, a parakletos was someone who was called to stand alongside another. It usually was applied to an attorney, but not just any attorney. Technically, the parakletos was the family attorney who”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is the Holy Spirit?

“the woman I loved. Several months passed with no resolution of this dilemma. Finally, spring break approached. My fiancée was planning to go home to Pittsburgh from the college where she was studying, and I persuaded her to stop at my college, attend a campus Bible study with me, and then spend the night in the girls’ dorm. I cannot remember anything for which I spent more time praying. I spent virtually the whole day before she arrived”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is the Holy Spirit?

“God, however, is eternally constant. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is The Holy Spirit?

“What we are today is different from what we were yesterday and from what we will be tomorrow, if only in the fact that we age twenty-four hours in the passage from one day to the next. It is this facet of humanness, change, that defines existence.”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is The Holy Spirit?

“Spirit is a person, not a thing.”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is The Holy Spirit?

“A Divine and Supernatural Light, Immediately Imparted to the Soul by the Spirit of God, Shown to Be Both Scriptural and Rational Doctrine.”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is The Holy Spirit?

“A human being is a creature, a being whose very existence from moment to moment depends on the power of the Supreme Being.”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is The Holy Spirit?

“Sound theology actually teaches the central importance of love and inclines us to love the God of the Scriptures and other people as well.”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is The Holy Spirit?

“three subsistences, with three distinct persons. They subsist within the being of God. THE SPIRIT’S PERSONAL NATURE The fact that the Holy Spirit is a person is seen in a multitude of ways in Scripture. One of the primary evidences is that the Bible repeatedly and consistently”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is The Holy Spirit?

“But the Holy Spirit is not simply an abstract force. He is a person who empowers the people of God for the Christian life.”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is The Holy Spirit?

“Now I know who the Holy Spirit is.”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is The Holy Spirit?

“And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked,”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is The Holy Spirit?

“the Holy Spirit is a person, not a thing.”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is The Holy Spirit?

“We need to be very careful to go to the pages of the Scripture to learn about God’s will and the leading of the Spirit, and not simply to listen to the popular teachings of the Christian subculture in which we live.”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is The Holy Spirit?

“Before I became a Christian, my heart was beating, my lungs were filling and emptying, and my brain was active (although my teachers wondered at times). But I was spiritually dead. I was dead to the things of God because I existed solely and completely in what Jesus and the Apostles call “the flesh.”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is The Holy Spirit?

“So, Nietzsche said, “Life is meaningless, but have courage anyway.” Jesus also called His people to be courageous in the face of difficulty, adversity, and hostility, but He did not call them to a groundless courage. As we know, Jesus told His disciples, “Take heart” (John 16:33), or, as some translations put it, “Be of good cheer.” However, He did not simply tell them to take heart for the sake of taking heart. He gave them a reason why they ought to have a sense of confidence and assurance for the Christian life. He said, “Take heart; I have overcome the world.”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is The Holy Spirit?

“Was Paul unloving when he disputed daily in the marketplace about the things of God (Acts 17:17)? Was Jesus unloving when He contradicted the teaching of the Pharisees? Were the prophets of ancient Israel unloving when they rebuked and admonished the false prophets? Was Elijah unloving when he disputed with the prophets of Baal (1 Kings 18)? I cannot imagine someone in the crowd on Mount Carmel that day saying: “You people can follow Elijah if you want to, but I’m not going to. He may have truth on his side, but he is not loving. Look what he did to these prophets of Baal. How unloving!” Contending for the truth of God is an act of love, not a sign of an absence of love. If we love God, if we love Christ, if we love the church, we must love the truth that defines the very essence of Christianity.”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is The Holy Spirit?

“The translators of the King James Version chose to render parakletos with the English word “Comforter” because at that time the English language was more closely connected to its historical roots in Latin. Today, we understand the word comfort to mean ease and solace in the midst of trouble. But its original meaning was different. It is derived from the Latin word comfortis, which consisted of a prefix (com-, meaning “with) and a root (fortis, meaning “strong”). So, originally the word carried the meaning “with strength.” Therefore, the King James Version translators were telling us that the Holy Spirit comes to the people of Christ not to heal their wounds after a battle but to strengthen them before and during a struggle. The idea is that the church operates not so much as a hospital but as an army, and the Holy Spirit comes to empower and strengthen Christians, to ensure victory or conquest.”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is The Holy Spirit?