God the Holy Spirit

St. Ignaty Brianchaninov

"The Holy Spirit acts autocratically as God. He comes when a person has humbled and abased himself." The Arena, pg. 36

'The Lord so loved His creature that He gave man the Holy Spirit, and man knew his Creator and loved his Lord. The Holy Spirit is love and sweetness to the soul, the mind and the body; but when the soul loses grace, or grace is diminished, once again the soul will seek the Holy Spirit in tears...' (On Love in Wisdom from Mount Athos, p 24)
'The Holy Spirit sets us all on different paths: one man lives a life of silent solitude in the desert; another prays for mankind; still another is called to minister to Christ's flock; to a fourth it is given to comfort or preach to the suffering; while yet another serves his neighbour by his goods or by the fruits of his labour - and all these are gifts of the Holy Spirit given in varying degrees: to one man thirtyfold, to another sixty and to some a hundred. If we love one another in simplicity of heart, the Lord through the Holy Spirit would show us many miracles and reveal great mysteries.' (On the Will of God and on Freedom, ibid, pp. 74-75)