Paul the Apostle Quotes

Faith is reason plus revelation, and the revelation part requires one to think with the spirit as well as with the mind. You have to hear the music, not just read the notes on the page.

Faith is the divine evidence whereby the spiritual man discerneth God, and the things of God.

Obedience to God's will is the secret of spiritual knowledge and insight.

The uninitiated have real questions and valid concerns over how the things of God appear to them.

Among the children of God, it was they who were most able to rightly divide the word of truth.

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

More people are troubled by what is plain in Scripture than by what is obscure.

People talk about revelation, and say it has ceased; but what ignorance it bespeaks, when man knows not the least thing on earth without revelation.

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

This thing comes to me, not by the hearing of the ear, but by my own personal experience: I know of a surety that Jesus manifests Himself unto His people as He doth not unto the world.

The work is hindered. The glory of God is tarnished and it is because the people of God no longer know how to discern the things of God.

We can study the whole history of salvation, we can study the whole of Theology, but without the Spirit we cannot understand. It is the Spirit that makes us realize the truth or - in the words of Our Lord - it is the Spirit that makes us know the voice of Jesus.

We are blind: we cannot see God with our senses, and our deductions from what we know or are thinking about the word of God itself - how little power they have to bring us to God! We are blind, and our eyes need the touch of our Lord's hand to enable us at times to even see dimly.

I found that there were things that God could reveal to me that I could never get myself physically.

I feel very in tune with the spiritual world and no one understands it unless you have got that intuition.

When the eyes of the flesh are shut, the eyes of the spirit are open.

Man has a viewpoint, but God has the view.

Often God will send us what we need in a package we don't want. Why? To let us know He's God and we cannot second-guess Him. We cannot search for answers merely with our heads; we must seek Him and His provision with our hearts. Scripture cannot be interpreted from our limited human mental understanding. There must be a breath of the Spirit of God. He alone gives wise counsel and correct application.

Maybe being Jesus is simply seeing people as they truly are.

The man who has been taught by the Holy Spirit will be a seer rather than a scholar. The difference is that the scholar sees and the seer sees through; and that is a mighty difference indeed.

Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convinced. But to those who do not have it, we can give it only by reasoning, waiting for God to give them spiritual insight, without which faith is only human and useless for salvation.

The Bible is the book that makes fools of the wise of this world; it is only understood by the plain and simple hearted.

This is why very often you find educated people in the media who look at spiritual books but they are so identified with their thought process, they don't get it. They write reviews or articles and they miss the whole point. They can't see the essence. It's not their fault; it's not them personally. It's the human condition and its mind-identified state. And intelligence in itself doesn't help. You can have two or three Ph.D.s; it doesn't get you any closer to spiritual realization. In fact, you might be more distant.

This is my only and permanent complaint, that vulgar people, empty of the Spirit of God, want to judge solely by their human thinking what they listen to or read in the Bible, which has been pronounced and written by the Holy Spirit and in the Holy Spirit.

We are dealing with God's thoughts: we are obligated to take the greatest pains to understand them truly and to explain them clearly.