“And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: / Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.”
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“Humans are surely the most frightened creatures on earth. We cry out, 'Give us someone to worship, anyone, even a ghost will do.'”
Bobby W. Miller
“Then away out in the woods I heard that kind of a sound that a ghost makes when it wants to tell about something that's on its mind and can't make itself understood, and so can't rest easy in its grave, and has to go about that way every night grieving.”
Mark Twain
“And when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles' hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money, / Saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost.”
“Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia, and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia, / After they were come to Mysia, they assayed to go into Bithynia: but the Spirit suffered them not.”
“And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.”
“The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.”
Francis Bacon Sr.
