The Work of the Holy Spirit

513 XVIII. Love in the Triune Being of God. “God is Love.”—1 Johniv. 8. Betweennatural love even in its highest forms and Holy L ...

The Word declares that God is Love, and the Spirit’s testimony says in every heart: “Amen, not in us, but in Thee, O Eternal One ...

rich and glorious as ever. Love exists and works in the Eternal Being apart from the creature; and its radiation upon the, creat ...

517 XIX. The Manifestation of Holy Love “And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us.” —1 Johniv. 16. The questi ...

This is entirely different from what the Father did in creation; for, altho in creation divine love was foreshadowed, its concep ...

attraction anywhere, but repulsion everywhere. And in this fact sparkles the sovereign liberty of divine Love: it loves because ...

obstacle. And if this is not altogether a success before we die, there is no need of fear so long as in death the scales shall, ...

522 XX. God the Holy Spirit the Love which Dwells in the Heart. "It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down u ...

to establish the most intimate relation between him and God. The Father and the Son will also come to dwell with him; the Son is ...

precious bottle was opened it filled the whole house with its fragrance, you will appreciate the beauty of the figure; for when ...

soon as the foundations of the soul are uncovered the presence of that eternal Love manifests itself. Underneath, in the hidden, ...

527 XXI.The Love of the Holy Spirit in Us. “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even ...

room, but the light is carried into it. And this is exactly what the Holy Spirit does. When He enters the heart the brightness o ...

end He uses at once the external means of the preached Word which penetrates the con- sciousness and takes hold of the person, a ...

531 for all who suffer, like that of the nurse for the patients of her ward, but Love that can not meet the need of any one else ...

532 XXII. Love and the Comforter. “By the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned.”—2 Cor. vi. 6. The question is, “In what sense is the p ...

but always as ministeringlove. It ever accommodated itself to the needs and conditions of our hearts. However much grieved, it w ...

And such is the Holy Spirit. So long as Jesus walked on earth He was the Comforter of His disciple’s. He lifted them when they s ...

soul with warnings and admonitions, now chiding, then caressing, to draw their souls to God. 536 And yet, even this is no compar ...

This would not be so if sin still dwelled in us; for sin makes one so unthankful and self- sufficient that after having tasted t ...