How to Use Holy Spirit in a Sentence

Holy Spirit

noun
  • Just lean on the counsel of God and the Holy Spirit ... there's a time and a place.
    Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Priests wear red vestments in honor of the Holy Spirit.
    Elizabeth Zavala, ExpressNews.com, 23 Oct. 2020
  • And where the disciples and many people received the Holy Spirit on the Temple Mount.
    Fox News, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Martin Luther opposed its presence in the canon and saw no Holy Spirit lurking within it at all.
    David Dark, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Emma visits a priest and schedules a baptism in the last-ditch hope that maybe the Holy Spirit can intercede in whatever’s going on in her life.
    Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Those who have been grasped by the gospel of Jesus, those in whose hearts the Holy Spirit has been at work, now have a specific role, a task, within God’s ongoing purposes.
    TIME, 20 Oct. 2023
  • More than anything, devotion to the Holy Spirit is a defining element of being Azorean.
    Mary Lussiana, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Aug. 2023
  • But in the brief last week, prosecutors wrote that the man, identified in court documents only as Juror 13, said at the outset of jury deliberations that the Holy Spirit told him Brown was not guilty of all charges.
    Jim Saunders, orlandosentinel.com, 28 Dec. 2020
  • One thing should give us confidence going into these situations: The church has been dealing with these kinds of challenges for 2,000 years and, with the help of the Holy Spirit, has developed a huge arsenal of spiritual and practical tools.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Nov. 2022
  • The classical worship style included a traditional choir and the occasional speaking in tongues or laying of hands on someone receiving the Holy Spirit.
    Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Pentecostalism is a tradition originating in the U.S. which emphasizes direct contact with the Holy Spirit through highly physical forms of worship such as speaking in tongues and faith healing.
    Samantha Pearson, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2022
  • The Copyright Office rejected the application because copyright protection is only available for works created by human beings—not supernatural beings (like the Holy Spirit), not animals (like this now-famous monkey), and not computer programs.
    Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Pedro Arteaga, provincial superior for Missionaries of the Holy Spirit, said in a letter to congregants that the organization is cooperating with law enforcement and has launched its own internal investigation.
    Jeremy Childs, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2023

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