VERSE 18. But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. Here someone may object: "How come we are not under the law? You yourself say, Paul, that we have the flesh which wars against the Spirit, and brings us into subjection."
But Paul says not to let it trouble us. As long as we are led by the Spirit, and are willing to obey the Spirit who resists the flesh, we are not under the Law. True believers are not under the Law. The Law cannot condemn them although they feel sin and confess it. Great then is the power of the Spirit.英文原著 · 《Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians》
I said, Sir, the scripture saith, that IT IS THE SPIRIT THAT HELPETH OUR INFIRMITIES; for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us, with sighs and groanings which cannot be uttered. Mark, said I, it doth not say the Common Prayer-Book teacheth us how to pray, but the Spirit. And it is THE SPIRIT THAT HELPETH OUR INFIRMITIES, saith the apostle; he doth not say it is the Common Prayer-Book.英文原著 · 《Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners》
And that though one man may tell another how he should pray: yet, as I said before, he cannot pray, nor make his condition known to God, except the Spirit help. It is not the Common Prayer-Book that can do this. It is the SPIRIT THAT SHOWETH US OUR SINS, and the SPIRIT THAT SHOWETH US A SAVIOUR, Jn. 16, and the Spirit that stirreth up in our hearts desires to come to God, for such things as we stand in need of, Matt. 27, even sighing out our souls unto Him for them with GROANS WHICH CANNOT BE UTTERED. With other words to the same purpose. At this they were set.英文原著 · 《Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners》
They do not surrender the soul to be guided and controlled by the divine agencies. We cannot use the Holy Spirit. The Spirit is to use us. Through the Spirit God works in His people "to will and to do of His good pleasure." Phil. But many will not submit to this. They want to manage themselves. This is why they do not receive the heavenly gift. Only to those who wait humbly upon God, who watch for His guidance and grace, is the Spirit given.英文原著 · 《The Desire of Ages》
Should he despair? God forbid. Let him say to himself: "My flesh seems to be on a warpath against the Spirit again. Go to it, flesh, and rage all you want to. But you are not going to have your way. I follow the leading of the Spirit."
When the flesh begins to cut up the only remedy is to take the sword of the Spirit, the word of salvation, and fight against the flesh. If you set the Word out of sight, you are helpless against the flesh. I know this to be a fact.英文原著 · 《Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians》
It is, perhaps, more correct to say of Byron, that he was charged with the spirit of revolt rather than with the revolutionary spirit. The revolutionary spirit was in him indefinite, inarticulate; he offered nothing to put in the place of the social and political evils against which he rebelled. There is nothing CONSTRUCTIVE in his poetry. But if his great passion-capital, his keen spiritual susceptibility, and his great power of vigorous expression, had been brought into the service of constructive thought, he might have been a restorative power in his generation.英文原著 · 《Introduction to Robert Browning》
I think you mean "free spirit." Easy Spirit is a shoe worn by people美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
Han, if you'd really like to do something in the diner to honor the spirit of Thanksgiving, you can open your doors and feed the homeless.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》