indwelt

Updated: June 24, 2025

We have been told of late that "there is no Divine immanence which does not imply the allness of God"; we reply that there is no sane and sober theology which will not feel called upon to challenge this fundamental error. God, immanent in the universe as life and energy, is not the universe; man, the partaker of the Divine nature, indwelt by the Spirit of God, is other than God.

Joseph Warschauer - Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive

For man is created to be indwelt and inspired by God's Spirit, and his powers can not be at their best pitch save as the conditions of their creation are met. The third fact: There will be a gradual bringing back to their normal condition of those facilities which have been dwarfed, or warped, or abnormally developed through sin and selfishness.

S. D. (Samuel Dickey) Gordon - Quiet Talks on Power

They lined the pit with costly furs and in the centre placed kettles, household goods, and weapons for the chase, all these, like the bodies and bones, supposed to be indwelt by spirits. They laid the dead bodies in rows on the floor of the pit, and threw the bundles of bones to Indians stationed within, who arranged the remains in their proper places.

Thomas Guthrie Marquis - The Jesuit Missions : A chronicle of the cross in the wilderness

Now we come to this profound prayer which teaches the inmost secrets of the spiritual life. A Divine Gift. "May give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation." Now he asks for wisdom and illumination to perceive all this for themselves as a personal experience. The word "spirit" seems to refer to their human faculty, though of course as indwelt and possessed by the Divine Spirit.

W. H. Griffith (William Henry Griffith) Thomas - The Prayers of St. Paul

He will descend unseen, unnoted. If men shall hear the sound of a trump it will have no greater significance to their spiritually deaf ears than any other passing sound. He will take, not the "great house" of religious profession, but those alone in that profession who have been regenerated and are indwelt by the Spirit, the dead who have fallen asleep in His name and the living who abide in Him.

Isaac Massey Haldeman - Why I Preach the Second Coming

Condescension, therefore, closes us to the possibility of being indwelt by the Spirit and from being the instruments of love. Another mark of professionalism is its manipulative tendency. We push people around and get them to do what we want them to do, because it is easier that way. "Mother knows best," "You do it because I tell you."

Reuel L. Howe - Herein is Love: A Study of the Biblical Doctrine of Love in Its Bearing on Personality, Parenthood, Teaching, and All Other Human Relationships.