Wednesday, August 30, 2023



The following quote is about the Holy Spirit and how He gives us words to speak and deep insights into others. 

“There is no human being to whom we look with so true a faith, as to him who shows himself deep-read in the mysteries within us; 

who seems to have dwelt where Omniscience only had access, 

who put into words weaknesses 

which we had hardly dared to confess in thought; 

who appears to have trembled with our own anxieties, and wept our very tears.

 This initiation into the interior nature is the quality which, above all others, gives one mind heavenly influence over another, and only comes from the Holy Spirit. 

If it comes upon us from someone, with the living tones of a friendly voice, we listen as to the breathings of inspiration; 

That a being, perhaps, distant and unknown, should have so penetrated our subtlest emotions, 

and caught our most transient attitudes of thought, should have so detected the excuses we give to our conscience, 

and witnessed the miseries of our temptations, 

and known the sacredness of our affections, 

that we appear revealed anew even to ourselves, truly reveals the heart of God and His power to save. 

 It is a triumph peculiar to those who Christ has taught to love the sympathies of their kind, and because they love them, instinctively appreciate and understand them. 

It is essentially the triumph which Christ won when the minions of tyranny and hypocrisy shrunk back from him in awe, saying, 

'Never a man spake like this man.' 



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