...best of all teachers declares that the heavenly wind, the Holy Spirit, " bloweth where He listeth ; we hear the sound thereof, but cannot tell whence it cometh, or whither it goeth, so is every one that is born of the Spirit." " The kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but...

...respect that we know it to be a fact ; it is a mystery in the respect that we cannot understand it. We hear the sound thereof but cannot tell whence it cometh or whither it goeth. It is the witness put into humanity that it is kindred with God. We know not what it is, but...

...not that I said unto thee, ye must be born again. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but cannot tell whence it cometh or whither it goeth ; so is every one that is born of the Spirit." Throughout the whole it is birth, not creation,...

...for whicli the immortal part should yearn. Even as the wind which "bloweth where it listeth," and we "hear the sound thereof, but cannot tell whence it cometh or whither it goeth," so are the years of our life. We sow in hope, we water and tend with solicitude, not knowing...

...through himself revealed in conscience. " The Spirit (not of the wind) bloweth whither it will, and ye hear the sound thereof, but cannot tell whence it cometh or whither it goeth." But for not being able to tell we are in fault. This is our sin. [This was with Mr. Erskine...

...power is that of a Divine Zeit Geist, a breath which bloweth where it listeth, and the world hears the sound thereof, but cannot tell whence it cometh or whither it goeth. So is this new birth of the Spirit which the race is now undergoing. The theology of Swedenborg,...

...effected or how this power operates, but the fact remains. " The wind bloweth where it listeth and we hear the sound thereof, but cannot tell whence it cometh or whither it goeth. So is every one that is born of the Spirit." We have the assurance of Jesus Christ Himself as...

...light. Our Lord teaches that this is a mystery when He says, " The wind bloweth where it listeth and ye hear the sound thereof, but cannot tell whence it cometh or whither it goeth. So is every one that is born of the Spirit." The Scripture, both in the Old Testament and the...

...more entitled to have applied to it those ancient words : " The wind bloweth where it listeth, and ye hear the sound thereof, but cannot tell whence it cometh or whither it goeth. So is every one that is born of the Spirit." This is especially true of the Reformation in England....

...of these things knoweth no man save only the Spirit of God. The wind bloweth where it listeth. " We hear the sound thereof, but cannot tell whence it cometh or whither it goeth." When every passion is annihilated, and no thought moves in the mind, and all the faculties...