Roland Allen

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. ↗

— Roland Allen

#love

It certainly must help us if we recognize that it is the presence of the Holy Spirit which creates a unity which we can never create. ↗

— Roland Allen

#create #creates #help #holy #holy spirit

Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ simply proclaim that their theory is in flat contradiction to the spiritual fact. ↗

— Roland Allen

#christ #church #communion #contradiction #excludes

If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing Christ from His throne in our own souls. ↗

— Roland Allen

#allow #christ #consideration #duty #gospel

The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them. ↗

— Roland Allen

#apostles #apprehension #cried #illumination #intellectual

The Spirit is Love expressed towards man as redeeming love, and the Spirit is truth, and the Spirit is the Holy Spirit. Redemption is inconceivable without truth and holiness. ↗

— Roland Allen

#holiness #holy #holy spirit #inconceivable #love