“Holy men would prefer life-long sickness to willful sin.”
“If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you as surely as you are now alive.”
– Charles Spurgeon
No sooner has a soul escaped than the great Adversary takes steps to ensnare it again. The fiercest attacks are made on the strongest forts, and the fiercer the battle the young believer is called on to wage, the surer evidence it is of the work of the Holy Spirit in his heart.
—D. L. Moody
We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
—Plato
I hope we shall catch fire from each other, and that there will be an holy emulation amongst us, who shall most debase man and exalt the LORD JESUS. Only the doctrines of the Reformation can do this.
—George Whitefield
Sanctification notes an holy dedication of heart and life to God: our becoming the temples of the living, God, separate from all profane sinful practices, to the Lord’s only use and service.
—John Flavel
If a man is full of the Holy Spirit, then there is no room for the world, there is no room for self.
—D. L. Moody
Regeneration expresses those supernatural, divine, new qualities, infused by the Spirit into the soul, which are the principles of all holy actions.
—John Flavel
“Dwell with us, Lord, as a church and people: by thy Holy Spirit reside with us and in us, and never depart from us, and then no root of bitterness shall spring up to trouble us.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“Heresies always come from gentlemen at ease who take no actual part in our holy war.”
— Charles Spurgeon
We should not limit the Holy One, for nothing is too hard for Him.
—D. L. Moody
O how quiet, as well as holy, would our lives be, had we learned that single lesson,—to be careful for nothing, but to do our duty, and leave all consequences to God!
—John Wesley
Fundamentalism has on its own part fallen into error, the error of textualism, which is simply orthodoxy without the Holy Spirit. Everywhere among conservatives we find persons who are Bible-taught but not Spirit-taught.
—AW Tozer
The man who is willing to settle for barren life will never experience the joy of the Holy Spirit or the deep satisfaction of fruitful living
—AW Tozer
I believe that a mighty resurgence of the Spirit’s power among us will open again wells of hymnody long forgotten. For song can never bring the Holy Spirit, but the Holy Spirit does invariably bring song.
—AW Tozer
The Holy Spirit whispers faithfully, reminding us of the Christ of God … walking in flesh, God Almighty come to live among us & to save
—AW Tozer
It is time for us to seek again the leadership of the Holy Spirit. Man’s lordship has cost us too much.
—AW Tozer
The Church lives in a hostile world. The power of the Holy Spirit is, therefore, not optional but necessary. Without it the children of God simply cannot live the life of heaven on earth.
—AW Tozer
We dare not conclude that because we learn about the Spirit we for that reason actually know Him. Knowing Him comes only by a personal encounter with the Holy Spirit Himself.
—AW Tozer
The teaching of the New Testament is that God and spiritual things can be known finally only by a direct work of God within the soul. The true understanding of God must be by personal spiritual awareness. The Holy Spirit is indispensable.
—AW Tozer
We can best repent our neglect of the Holy Spirit by neglecting Him no more. Let us begin to think of Him as One to be worshiped & obeyed. Let us throw open every door & invite Him in. Let us surrender to Him every room in the temple of our hearts & insist that He enter
—AW Tozer
He has made available to us the infinite moral power of His Holy Spirit to enable us to do His will here on earth.
—AW Tozer
The Holy Spirit is not a luxury, not something added now and again to produce a deluxe type of Christian once in a generation. No, He is for every child of God a vital necessity
—AW Tozer
We must get on our knees before our open Bible & allow the Holy Spirit to break our hearts & create a passion for Christ as we’ve never had
—AW Tozer
People desire to make God a dead God, in order to be able to deal with him according to their pleasure. But the Holy Scripture calls to man: You have gone astray; God exists. He is the true God; he lives, now and forever.
—Herman Bavinck
Much religious work is being done these days that will not be accepted or rewarded in that great day. Superior human gifts are being mistaken for the gifts of the Holy Spirit, and neither they who exercise these gifts nor the Christian public are aware of the deception.
—AW Tozer
The spiritual man would rather be useful than famous & would rather serve than be served. And all this must be by the operation of the Holy Spirit within him. No man can become spiritual by himself. Only the free Spirit can make a man spiritual.
—AW Tozer
The human soul is not a hard-baked vessel with a fixed size; it is a living thing capable of growth & expansion as it interacts with the gracious actions of the Holy Spirit.
—AW Tozer
The Holy Spirit is the true conservator of orthodoxy & will invariably say the same thing to meek & trusting souls.
—AW Tozer
I think there can be no doubt that the need above all other needs in the Church of God at this moment is the power of the Holy Spirit. More education, better organization, finer equipment, more advanced methods—all are unavailing.
—AW Tozer