The Holy Spirit is Food and Drink and Clothing

Just as the darkness does not go away unless the light is present, so the disease of the soul is not banished unless he who takes away our infirmities comes and unites himself with us. He is called health when he comes because he chases away every disease and infirmity of the...
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Through the Holy Spirit

The Holy Spirit is God himself in his freedom exercised in revelation to be present to his creature, even to dwell in him personally, and thereby to achieve his meeting with himself in his Word and by this achievement to make it possible. Through the Holy Spirit and only through...
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Titles of the Holy Spirit

I am seized with dread when I think of the abundance of titles for the Holy Spirit. He is called the Spirit of God, the Spirit of Christ, the Mind of Christ, the Spirit of the Lord, and himself the Lord, the Spirit of Adoption, of Truth, and Liberty. The Creator-Spirit, who by...
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The Vastness of the Spirit

And his operations, what are they? For majesty ineffable, and for numbers innumerable. How shall we form a conception of what extends beyond the ages? What were his operations before that creating grace which he conferred on creation? What the power exercised by him over the ages...
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Gradual Knowledge of the Holy Spirit

The Old Testament manifested the Father plainly, the Son obscurely. The New Testament revealed the Son and hinted at the divinity of the Holy Spirit. Today the Spirit dwells among us and makes himself more clearly known. For it was not safe, when the Godhead of the Father was not...
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