Holy Spirit (312)
  1. The Church’s unity is not uniformity in every matter of her well-being. It is faithfulness in what constitutes her being.
  2. A rightly-oriented heart and a rightly-oriented love will consistently do what is best for God and best for our neighbor, which is why St. Augustine speaks of sin as a disordered love.
  3. The Antichrist offers another continual presence. It is every whisper that tempts us toward autonomy, that tells us to carry it alone, that insists suffering is meaningless.
  4. Instead of offering more details or more information, he does something even better: he promises his very presence.
  5. The Church speaks not with the cleverness of men, but with the breath of God.
  6. The doctrine of the Trinity is not so much the story of a “who-dunnit” as it is the story of the “who-is-it.”
  7. Every time someone is baptized, every time bread is broken and wine poured, every time a sinner hears, “Your sins are forgiven in Christ,” Pentecost happens again.
  8. The gospel is his weapon that beats back the darkness — “I AM the Resurrection and the Life. Bow your head, bend the knee when I walk by.”
  9. When the historical importance of revivalism is understood, one can appreciate that the question, “Could America experience another revival?” is also a question about the fate of Christianity in America.
  10. With the Spirit we will get lost in the world. We are on a new track.
  11. Five promises were seemingly all those apostles, staring into the sky, had to go on. Five promises that were more than enough.
  12. Sometimes, we get prayer dementia. We can’t remember what we were going to pray for, we can’t put the words together, and, frustrated, there is nothing we can do but sigh and groan.
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