The Comforter is gentle, tender, and full of patience and love. How gentle are God’s dealings, even with sinners! How patient His forbearance! How tender His discipline with His own erring children! How he led Jacob, Joseph, David, Elijah, and all His ancient servants, until they could truly say, “Thy gentleness hath made me great.”
The heart in which the Holy Spirit dwells will always be characterized by gentleness, lowliness, quietness, meekness, and forbearance. The rude, sarcastic spirit, and brusque manner, the sharp retort, the unkind cut—all these belong to the flesh, but they have nothing whatever in common with the gentle teaching of the Comforter.
The Holy Dove shrinks from the noisy, tumultuous, excited, and vindictive spirit, and finds His home in the breast of the peaceful soul. “The fruit of the Spirit is gentleness, meekness.”
--A. B. Simpson
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