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
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
The spirit of “Who shall be the greatest?” is still one of the greatest hindrances to the church of God today – the endeavor to win for ourselves honor and esteem.
—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 best church that ever Christ had on earth would within a few years apostatise from the truth if deserted by the Spirit of God.”
O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.
Augustine
Foreknowledge cannot be gotten from ghosts and spirits, cannot be had by analogy, cannot be found out by calculation. It must be obtained from people, people who know the conditions of the enemy.
—Sun Tzu
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
Freely we have received, freely let us give; what CHRIST tells us by his Spirit in our closets, that let us proclaim on the house top.
—George Whitefield
None but those who have felt the Spirit themselves, can freely or feelingly speak of him to others.
—George Whitefield
Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
Christ is the joy of the soul, and if the soul be rejoiced and filled with divine light, such joy no man can take away; whatever outward misery there be, the Spirit will sustain it.
—Jonathan Edwards
If Christ is pleased to send forth his Spirit to manifest his love, and speaks friendly to the soul, it will support it even in the the greatest outward torment that man can inflict.
—Jonathan Edwards
All endeavours, all attempts for communion with God, without the supplies of the Spirit of supplications, without his effectual working in the heart, is of no value, nor to any purpose.
—John Owen
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
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
Oh that we may suffer only as christians, and then the spirit of CHRIST and of glory will rest upon us.
—George Whitefield
Christ gives his Spirit, that calms the mind, and is like a refreshing breeze of wind.
—Jonathan Edwards
The delight he takes in the fruit of the Spirit is unspeakable.
—John Owen
Simplicity is the very spirit of the gospel; therefore, the more we learn CHRIST, the more regardless we shall be of worldly vanities.
—George Whitefield
Self likes to do great things; but grace teaches us to do little things with a great spirit – that is, for the Lord’s sake.
—John Newton
People will find fault as they please, and it is a mercy to sit loose to their opinions, and let them talk on — provided we can do it in a right spirit. I mean, from a humble consciousness that our views are upright before the Lord — and that we are simply aiming to serve him.
—John Newton
People will find fault as they please, and it is a mercy to sit loose to their opinions, and let them talk on — provided we can do it in a right spirit. I mean, from a humble consciousness that our views are upright before the Lord — and that we are simply aiming to serve him.
—John Newton
People will find fault as they please, and it is a mercy to sit loose to their opinions, and let them talk on — provided we can do it in a right spirit.
—John Newton
There is so much sweetness in our peace with God that it must so quiet the spirit of that man in whom it is that whatsoever is without shall never be able to make any great disturbance in his spirit, so great and excellent is the sweetness of that peace.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
There is so much sweetness in our peace with God that it must so quiet the spirit of that man in whom it is that whatsoever is without shall never be able to make any great disturbance in his spirit, so great and excellent is the sweetness of that peace.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
Let us take care that we do not cross the mind of the Spirit, by dwelling on the greatness of our sins, instead of the infiniteness of God’s grace.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
Do you think that the Lord will come in mercy a whit sooner because of the murmuring of your spirits?
—Jeremiah Burroughs