“The Holy Spirit is always positive. Satan is always negative” John Arnott (Toronto Airport Fellowship)

Here are some interesting quotes from the book Grace and Forgiveness by John and Carol Arnott. I am mulling them over


“Every negative thing and thought is always of the Enemy, and every positive, life-giving, up-lifting thought is always of the Holy Spirit.”


” When we judge others, it almost always comes out as an accusation. We judge and accuse others and unwittingly find ourselves in agreement with the “accuser of the brethren.”


“Instead we need to take our speech in the opposite direction. Instead of judging and accusing others, we need to build others up, encourage and edify them. We must bless and not curse, forgive and not accuse.”


“Settle this issue in your heart. The Holy Spirit is always positive, and Satan is always negative.”


“Even when God brings discipline and correction to our lives, He does so to save us from ruin. His intent is always life-giving and redemptive.”


Carol Arnott, same book
” A man reaps what he sows.” In the natural realm, if we plant one seed in the ground, we expect to reap a multiplied harvest. If we plant a single seed of corn, and only reap back one or two seeds, that is a terrible harvest. We expect lots of kernels to grow from that single seed. That is God’s law of increase.


 “Similarly, in the spiritual realm, if you sow seeds of love, joy, generosity, kindness, goodness, forgiveness and mercy, we will reap an abundance of those things back. But if we sow seeds of anger, judgment, bitterness, gossip and violence, we will reap those things, but in increasing intensity, like a crop of weeds.”