"Holy ghost" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "Heptameron" and similar works, scarcely less constant than the prodigals or parasites of the New Comedy, the other orders were but little behind them. And so Louise de Savoie made this significant entry in her diary: "In the year 1522, in December, my son and I, by the grace of the Holy Ghost, began to understand the hypocrites, white, black, gray, smoky, and of all colors; from whom may God, by his clemency and infinite goodness, be pleased to preserve and defend us. For, if Jesus Christ be not a liar, there is no more dangerous ...
— The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) • Henry Martyn Baird
... have come to light in the Occident a number of instances of the attainment of this state, and these have been described as "cosmic consciousness;" "illumination;" "liberation;" the "baptism of the Holy Ghost;" and becoming "immersed ...
— Cosmic Consciousness • Ali Nomad
... war, More inextinguishably bright Than learning's lonely towers of light. Framing its walls of faith and hope and love In souls of men, it lifts above The frailty of our earthly home An everlasting dome; The sanctuary of the human host, The living temple of the Holy Ghost. ...
— The Poems of Henry Van Dyke • Henry Van Dyke
... so, unless we happen upon it, which is rare, we never see it at all. A year ago I saw it, and that one look made me realise, as no amount of explanations ever could, how absolutely out of reach of all human influence such souls are. Nothing can reach them, nothing but the might of the Holy Ghost. ...
— Things as They Are - Mission Work in Southern India • Amy Wilson-Carmichael
... She placed her hands together, closing her eyes and bending her head a little, she said slowly and deliberately in a low voice, "The food which we receive, O Lord, may it be blessed, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, Amen!" ...
— Paula the Waldensian • Eva Lecomte
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