R. A. (Reuben Archer) Torrey
Reuben Archer Torrey studied at Yale and in Germany before taking up a pastorate in the United States. As a gifted intellectual, administrator, and Bible teacher, he went on to pastor Moody Church in Chicago and became D.L. Moody's closest associate. In his later years, he traveled the world as an evangelist speaking to millions in Australia, New Zealand, India, England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Japan, China, Hawaii, Germany, the United States, and Canada. Torrey edited the last two volumes of the monumental "The Fundamentals" and was instrumental in the founding of both Moody Bible Institute and BIOLA University.
“What are the distinctive characteristics, or marks, of personality? Knowledge, feeling or emotion, and will. Any entity that thinks and feels and wills is a person.”
R. A. (Reuben Archer) Torrey
“I. All the distinctive characteristics of personality are ascribed to the Holy Spirit in the Bible.”
R. A. (Reuben Archer) Torrey
“There are at least four distinct lines of proof in the Bible that the Holy Spirit is a person.”
R. A. (Reuben Archer) Torrey
“It is of the highest importance from the standpoint of experience that we know the Holy Spirit as a person.”
R. A. (Reuben Archer) Torrey