How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.
—Marcus Aurelius
Prevenient grace may be simple conviction or a strange longing which nothing can satisfy or powerful aspiration after eternal values or feeling of disgust for sin & desire to be delivered from its repulsive coils. These strange workings within are the stirrings of the Holy Spirit
—A. W. Tozer
God has given us the Holy Spirit to illuminate our minds. He is eyes & understanding to us. We dare not try to get on without Him.
—AW Tozer
Since the fall of man the earth has been a disaster area & everyone lives with a critical emergency. Nothing is normal. Everything is wrong & everyone is wrong until made right by the redeeming work of Christ & the effective operation of the Holy Spirit.
—AW Tozer
He has given us His word; He has placed Himself at our disposal in response to believing prayer; He has made available to us the infinite moral power of His Holy Spirit to enable us to do His will here on earth. There is no excuse for our acting like timid weaklings.
—AW Tozer
Since the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of the Father He feels toward His people exactly as the Father feels. He will always act like Jesus, toward sinners in compassion, toward saints in warm affection, toward human suffering in tenderest pity and love.
—AW Tozer
I never feel comfortably, but when I find my soul going forth after God: if I cannot be holy, I must necessarily be miserable forever.
—David Brainerd
Oh that these trials might make me more humble and holy.
—David Brainerd
O that my soul were holy, as he is holy! O that it were pure, even as Christ is pure; and perfect, as my Father in heaven is perfect!
—David Brainerd
O my friends, it is not enough that the object of your duties is spiritual, that they respect a holy God or that the matter is spiritual, that you be conversant about holy things; but that the frame of your heart must be spiritual, a heavenly temper of soul is necessary.
—John Flavel
The Holy Spirit can take a man whose mind is blind to the truth of God, whose will is at enmity with God, whose affections are corrupt and vile, and transform that man, impart to him a new nature, so that he thinks God’s thoughts, love what God loves, and hate what God hates.
—R. A. Torrey
Any one of us, no matter how outcast or vile, can go boldly into the Holy of Holies on the ground of the shed blood, and the best man or woman that ever walked this earth can meet God on no other ground than the shed blood.
—R. A. Torrey
We must learn to see God in his holy temple above the flux of history, and above the changing scenes of time.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
The Holy Spirit never leads anyone to disobey the Word of God.
—R. A. Torrey
All supposed leadings of God should be tested by the Word of God. The Bible is God’s revealed will. Any leading that contradicts the plain teaching of the Bible is certainly not the leading of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit does not contradict Himself.
—R. A. Torrey
People tell us the Bible is full of things that are impossible to believe. I know of nothing else so impossible to believe as that a holy God should love such individuals as you and me, as the Bible says He does. But as impossible as it is to believe, it is true.
—R. A. Torrey
You can never convict a man of sin, because that is the work of the Holy Spirit. You can reason and reason and you will fail. It is ours to preach the Word and look to the Holy Spirit to produce conviction.
—R. A. Torrey
There are some of us who set much store by our morality, our culture, and our refinement; but if we knew how little we weighed in the balances of the eternal and all holy God, we would fall on our knees and cry, “God be merciful to me, a sinner!”
—R. A. Torrey
Why is the world at it is, and why are we ever guilty of sin? It is because we do not realize the holy character of God.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
You can tell a man who is filled by the Holy Spirit; he is all the time talking about Christ, has nothing to say of himself, but is constantly holding Jesus Christ up as an all-sufficient Savior.
—D. L. Moody
There are more people ruined by flattery than by telling them their faults. The Holy Ghost never flatters, but convicts us of sin, and that is the reason many don’t like Him.
—D. L. Moody
Our preservation is a Trinitarian work.
God the Father keeps and preserves us.
God the Son intercedes for us.
God the Holy Spirit indwells and assists us.
R.C. Sproul
The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
Augustine
O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.
Augustine
Study to show the simplicity of JESUS CHRIST, and strive to imitate those holy matrons, who not only administered to our LORD of their substance, but also followed him to the accursed tree.
—George Whitefield
Remember that the same spirit that lives in you lives in every other person, and therefore don’t just love but honor as holy the soul of every person as much as your own.
—Leo Tolstoy
The doctrines of our election, and free justification in CHRIST JESUS, are daily more and more pressed upon my heart. They fill my soul with a holy fire, and afford me great confidence in GOD my Saviour.
—George Whitefield
The doctrines of our election, and free justification in CHRIST JESUS, are daily more and more pressed upon my heart. They fill my soul with a holy fire, and afford me great confidence in GOD my Saviour.
—George Whitefield
A little of true peace, a little of the joys of the manifested love of Christ, and a little of the true and holy hope of eternal life, are enough to compensate for all that toil and weariness, and to erase the remembrance of it from the mind.
—Jonathan Edwards
The Scripture cannot deceive us, if rightly understood; but it may, if perverted, prove the occasion of confirming us in a mistake. The Holy Spirit cannot mislead those who are under his influence; but we may suppose that we are so, when we are not.
—John Newton