As the sun can be seen only by its own light, so Christ can be known only by His own Spirit.
– Robert Leighton
Christ | The Holy Spirit | Light
When it is a question of God’s almighty Spirit, never say, “I can’t.”
– Oswald Chambers
The Holy Spirit | Achievement
The Spirit changes people
– R. C. Sproil
The Holy Spirit
The Spirit-filled life is not a special, deluxe edition of Christianity. It is part and parcel of the total plan of God for His people.
– A. W. Tozer
The Holy Spirit
God speaks through a variety of means. In the present God primarily speaks by the Holy Spirit, through the Bible, prayer, circumstances, and the church.
– Henry Blackaby
The Holy Spirit | Prayer | The Bible
To pray in the Holy Spirit simply means to lean upon His divine help as we pray.
– William Thrasher
Prayer | The Holy Spirit
You are never left alone when you are alone with God.
– Woodrow Kroll
The Holy Spirit
The true spirit of prayer is no other than God’s own Spirit dwelling in the hearts of the saints. And as this spirit comes from God, so doth it naturally tend to God in holy breathings and pantings. It naturally leads to God, to converse with him by prayer.
– Jonathan Edwards
The Holy Spirit | Prayer
Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance of the Spirit, for such things as God has promised.
– John Bunyan
Prayer | The Holy Spirit
The indwelling Spirit shall teach him what is of God and what is not. This is why sometimes we can conjure up no logical reason for opposing a certain teaching, yet in the very depth of our being arises a resistance.
– Watchman Nee
The Holy Spirit
Everyone recognizes that Stephen was Spirit-filled when he was performing wonders. Yet, he was just as Spirit-filled when he was being stoned to death.
– Leonard Ravenhill
The Holy Spirit
Just as the right relationship with Christ generates a Christian, so the proper relationship with the Holy Spirit breeds a spiritual man.
– Watchman Nee
The Holy Spirit | Relationships
I often wonder if religion is the enemy of God. It’s almost like religion is what happens when the Spirit has left the building.
– Bono
The Holy Spirit | Religion
The Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Power helpeth our infirmity in prayer. The Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Life ends our deadness in prayer. The Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Wisdom delivers us from ignorance in this holy art of prayer. The Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Fire delivers us from coldness in prayer. The Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Might comes to our aid in our weakness as we pray.
– Leonard Ravenhill
The Holy Spirit | Prayer
Don’t let obstacles along the road to eternity shake your confidence in God’s promise. The Holy Spirit is God’s seal that you will arrive.
– David Jeremiah
The Holy Spirit | Eternity
I can say, through the power of the Spirit that wherever God can get a people that will come together in one accord and one mind in the Word of God, the baptism of the Holy Ghost will fall upon them, like as at Cornelius’ house.
– William J. Seymour
Unity | The Holy Spirit
One of the special marks of the Holy Ghost in the Apostolic Church was the spirit of boldness.
– A. B. Simpson
The Holy Spirit
Enter into the promises of God. It is your inheritance. You will do more in one year if you are really filled with the Holy Ghost than you could do in fifty years apart from Him.
– Smith Wigglesworth
The Holy Spirit
Without the Spirit of God we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind or chariots without steeds. Like branches without sap, we are withered. Like coals without fire, we are useless. As an offering without the sacrificial flame, we are unaccepted.
– Charles Spurgeon
The Holy Spirit
Do not grow overconfident following a few victories. Should you not rely upon the Holy Spirit you will soon be thrown once more into a distressing experience. With holy diligence you must cultivate an attitude of dependency.
– Watchman Nee
The Holy Spirit | Stress | Diligence
One thing is unmistakable: the soul is affected by outside influences, but not the spirit. For example, when the soul is provided with beautiful scenery, serene nature, inspiring music, or many other phenomena pertaining to the external world, it can be moved instantly and respond strongly. Not so the spirit. Hence those that are genuinely spiritual can be active whether or not their soul has feeling or their body has strength.
– Watchman Nee
The Holy Spirit | Nature
When one tries to increase his knowledge by doing mental gymnastics over books without waiting upon God and looking to the guidance of the Holy Spirit, his soul is plainly in full swing. This will deplete his spiritual life. Because the fall of man was occasioned by seeking knowledge, God uses the foolishness of the cross to “destroy the wisdom of the wise.”
– Watchman Nee
The Holy Spirit | The Cross | Knowledge
But have we Holy Spirit power – power that restricts the devil’s power, pulls down strongholds and obtains promises? Daring delinquents will be damned if they are not delivered from the devil’s dominion. What has hell to fear other than a God-anointed, prayer-powered church?
– Leonard Ravenhill
The Holy Spirit | Power
The more you focus on yourself, the more distracted you will be from the proper path. The more you know Him and commune with Him, the more the Spirit will make you like Him. The more you are like Him, the better you will understand His utter sufficiency for all of life’s difficulties. And that is the only way to know real satisfaction.
– John MacArthur
The Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit is the gift of the Risen Christ. His anointing filling, empowering work is a baptism of love that gives power to make Jesus real to you and known to others.
– Winkie Pratney
The Holy Spirit | Power | Jesus
Many Christians estimate difficulty in the light of their own resources, and thus they attempt very little and they always fail. All giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reckoned on His power and presence to be with them.
– Hudson Taylor
The Holy Spirit | Faith | Power
The church that is man-managed instead of God-governed is doomed to failure. A ministry that is college-trained but not Spirit-filled works no miracles.
– Samuel Chadwick
The Holy Spirit | Failure
If revival is being withheld from us it is because some idol remains still enthroned; because we still insist in placing our reliance in human schemes; because we still refuse to face the unchangeable truth that, ‘It is not by might, but by My Spirit.’
– Jonathan Goforth
Revival | The Holy Spirit
Do not heed the jar of man’s warring opinions. Let God be true and every man a liar. The Bible is the Bible still. If any man lacks wisdom, let him ask of God. You have an unction from the Holy One, and you know all things.
– Horatius Bonar
The Holy Spirit | The Bible | Wisdom
Since the days of Pentecost, has the whole church ever put aside every other work and waited upon Him for ten days, that the Spirit’s power might be manifested? We give too much attention to method and machinery and resources, and too little to the source of power.
– Hudson Taylor
The Holy Spirit | Power
A holy minister is an awful weapon in the hand of God. A word spoken by you when your conscience is clear, and your heart full of God’s Spirit, is worth ten thousand words spoken in unbelief and sin.
– Robert Murray McCheyne
Preaching | The Holy Spirit
The Church is the Body of Christ, and the Spirit is the Spirit of Christ. He fills the Body, directs its movements, controls its members, inspires its wisdom, supplies it’s strength. He guides into truth, sanctifies its agents, and empowers for witnessing. The Spirit has never abdicated His authority nor relegated His power.
– Samuel Chadwick
The Holy Spirit | Authority | Witnessing
Some seek the gifts of the Holy Spirit with genuine earnestness. Yet often what they crave is but some joy, for the “I” is hidden behind their quest.
– Watchman Nee
The Holy Spirit | Gifts
A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit’s aid than he can create a world.
– Charles Spurgeon
The Holy Spirit | Repentance
Tell me not of your justification, unless you have also some marks of sanctification. Boast not of Christ’s work for you, unless you can show us the Spirit’s work in you.
– J. C. Ryle
Justification | Sanctification | The Holy Spirit
Man was so engineered by God that the presence of the Creator within the creature is indispensable to His humanity.
– Major Ian Thomas
The Holy Spirit
Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake.
– John Bunyan
The Holy Spirit | The Heart
Prayer is not logical; it is a mysterious moral working of the Holy Spirit.
– Oswald Chambers
Prayer | The Holy Spirit
Forms and rituals do not produce worship, nor does the disuse of forms and rituals. We can use all the right techniques and methods, we can have the best possible liturgy, but we have not worshipped the Lord until Spirit touches spirit.
– Richard J. Foster
Worship | The Holy Spirit
It is the consciousness of the threefold joy of the Lord, His joy in ransoming us, His joy in dwelling within us as our Saviour and Power for fruitbearing and His joy in possessing us, as His Bride and His delight; it is the consciousness of this joy which is our real strength. Our joy in Him may be a fluctuating thing: His joy in us knows no change.
– Hudson Taylor
The Holy Spirit | Joy | Strength
Destitute of the Fire of God, nothing else counts; possessing Fire, nothing else matters.
– Samuel Chadwick
The Holy Spirit | Fire
All outward means of grace, if separate from the spirit of God, cannot profit, or conduce, in any degree, either to the knowledge or love of God. All outward things, unless he works in them and by them, are in vain.
– John Wesley
GraceThe Holy Spirit
Let us thank God heartily as often as we pray that we have His Spirit in us to teach us to pray. Thanksgiving will draw our hearts out to God and keep us engaged with Him; it will take our attention from ourselves and give the Spirit room in our hearts.
– Andrew Murray
Prayer | Thankfulness | The Holy Spirit
“Amplius” means broader, fuller, wider. That is God’s perpetual word to us in relation to filling of the Holy Spirit. We can never have enough to satisfy His yearning desire. When we have apprehended most, there are always unexpected supplies in store ready to be drawn upon.
– F.B. Meyer
The Holy Spirit | Blessings
It is the signature of the Holy Ghost upon our work and witness that makes all the difference.
– Duncan Campbell
The Holy Spirit | Witnessing
If there be anything common to us by nature, it is the members of our corporeal frame; yet the apostle taught that these, guided by the spirit as its instruments, and obeying a holy will, become transfigured, so that, in his language, the body becomes a temple of the Holy Ghost, and the meanest faculties, the lowest appetites, the humblest organs are ennobled by the spirit mind which guides them.
– Frederick W. Robertson
The Holy Spirit | Nature
Be filled with the Spirit and you’ll never run out of gas.
– Woodrow Kroll
The Holy Spirit
Everyone who believes in God must have His revelation in his spirit, or else what he believes is not God but mere human wisdom, ideals or words. Such faith cannot endure the test.
– Watchman Nee
The Holy Spirit | Faith | Endurance
From the day of Pentecost until the present time, it has been necessary to be of one accord in prayer before the Spirit of God will work with mighty converting power.
– John R. Mott
Prayer | The Holy Spirit | Power
God’s call is an inner conviction given by the Holy Spirit and confirmed by the Word of God and the body of Christ.
– Erwin Lutzer
The Holy Spirit | Conviction
The Spiritual Life is the gift of the Living Spirit. The spiritual man is no mere development of the Natural man. He is a New Creation born from Above.
– Henry Drummond
The Holy Spirit | Renewal
The soul, in its highest sense, is a vast capacity for God. It is like a curious chamber added on to being, and somehow involving being, a chamber with elastic and contractile walls, which can be expanded, with God as its guest, illimitably, but which without God shrinks and shrivels until every vestige of the Divine is gone.
– Henry Drummond
The Holy Spirit
Let us thank God heartily as often as we pray that we have His Spirit in us to teach us to pray. Thanksgiving will draw our hearts out to God and keep us engaged with Him; it will take our attention from ourselves and give the Spirit room in our hearts.
– Andrew Murray
Prayer | Thankfulness | The Holy Spirit
If you look up into His face and say, “Yes, Lord, whatever it costs,” at that moment He’ll flood your Life with His presence and power.
– Alan Redpath
Obedience | The Holy Spirit | Power
If we know that the aim of the Holy Spirit is to lead man to the place of self-control, we shall not fall into passivity but shall make good progress in spiritual life. “The fruit of the Spirit is self-control”
– Watchman Nee
The Holy Spirit | Self-control
Nowhere in Scripture do we see real gifts of the Spirit operating when someone is out of control or under some sort of supernatural seizure. Nowhere does the New Testament teach that the Spirit of God causes Christians to fall into a trance, faint, or lapse into frenzied behavior. On the contrary, “The fruit of the Spirit is… self-control”.
– John MacArthur
Gifts | The Holy Spirit
I had an overwhelming experience of the Lord’s presence. I felt so powerfully overcome by the nearness of the Holy Spirit that I had to ask the Lord to draw back lest He kill me. It was so glorious that I couldn’t stand more than a small portion of it.
– Mordecai Ham
The Holy Spirit
When all nature is at rest, not a leaf moving, then at evening the dew comes down — no eye to see the pearly drops descending, no ear to hear them falling on the verdant grass — so does the Spirit come to you who believe. When the heart is at rest in Jesus — unseen, unheard by the world — the Spirit comes, and softly fills the believing soul, quickening all, renewing all within.
– Robert Murray McCheyne
The Holy Spirit
Alan Redpath is no different as a man from what he was as a youngster. And the sins that beset him then beset him now were it not for a constant, continual dependence upon the blood of Jesus, and the grace of God, and the power of the Holy Spirit to keep me.
– Alan Redpath
Grace | The Holy Spirit | Power
In Scripture we read of two kinds of men–the spiritual man controlled by the Holy Spirit, and the “carnal” man who is ruled by his passions.
– David Jeremiah
The Holy Spirit | Carnality | Passion
The man who gazes upon and contemplates day by day the face of the Lord Jesus Christ, and who has caught the glow of the reality that the Lord is not a theory but an indwelling power and force in his life, is as a mirror reflecting the glory of the Lord.
– Alan Redpath
The Holy Spirit | Power
God must open the eyes of our understanding before we can truly know and rightly interpret His truth. His truth is available only to those with a regenerate spirit and in whom His Spirit dwells, for only the Spirit can illumine Scripture. Just as the physically blind cannot see the sun, the spiritually blind cannot see the Son. Both lack proper illumination.
– John MacArthur
The Holy Spirit
The man who gazes upon and contemplates day by day the face of the Lord Jesus Christ, and who has caught the glow of the reality that the Lord is not a theory but an indwelling power and force in his life, is as a mirror reflecting the glory of the Lord.
– Alan Redpath
The Holy Spirit | Power
If the Holy Spirit was withdrawn from the church today, 95 percent of what we do would go on and no one would know the difference. If the Holy Spirit had been withdrawn from the New Testament church, 95 percent of what they did would stop, and everybody would know the difference
– A. W. Tozer
The Holy Spirit
Alan Redpath is no different as a man from what he was as a youngster. And the sins that beset him then beset him now were it not for a constant, continual dependence upon the blood of Jesus, and the grace of God, and the power of the Holy Spirit to keep me.
– Alan Redpath
Grace | The Holy Spirit | Power
Through His Spirit, the Spirit of prayer, our life may be one of continual prayer. The Spirit of prayer will help you become an intercessor, asking great things of God for those around you.
– Andrew Murray
Prayer | The Holy Spirit
May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire.
– A. B. Simpson
The Holy Spirit | Fire
In any matter where we have questions, we have a right to ask the Holy Spirit to lead us and to expect His gentle guiding.
– Curtis Hutson
The Holy Spirit
With fear and trembling we must rely upon God for guidance in the inner depths. This is the sole way to walk according to the spirit.
– Watchman Nee
The Holy Spirit
The Kingdom of God is not going to be advanced by our churches becoming filled with men, but by men in our churches becoming filled with God.
– Duncan Campbell
Church | The Holy Spirit
We need, men so possessed by the Spirit of God that God can think His thoughts through our minds, that He can plan His will through our actions, that He can direct His strategy of world evangelization through His Church.
– Alan Redpath
The Holy Spirit | Evangelism | Men
If whatever men know comes through their brain without the Holy Spirit regenerating their spirit, then their knowledge will help them not one whit. If their belief rests in man’s wisdom and not in God’s power, they are merely excited in their soul.
– Watchman Nee
The Holy Spirit | Wisdom
Meekness enables us to be led by the Spirit of God.
– John Hagee
The Holy Spirit | Meekness
To harmonize the thoughts and imaginations of men the presence of the stimulating breath of the Holy Spirit is necessary. When that is present there will be produced heavenly airs and joyous harmonies in men’s hearts, both in this life and in heaven.
– Sadhu Sundar Singh
The Holy Spirit
If you look up into His face and say, “Yes, Lord, whatever it costs,” at that moment He’ll flood your Life with His presence and power.
– Alan Redpath
Obedience | The Holy Spirit | Power
Unless the Spirit of God is with us, we cannot expect that our prayers will be answered.
– Dwight L. Moody
Prayer | The Holy Spirit
The mind of the spiritual man likewise cooperates with the spirit, wandering no more as in the past. It does not object to the spirit’s revelation by raising its reason and argument, neither does it disturb the peace of the spirit with many confused thoughts.
– Watchman Nee
The Holy Spirit
When the great promise of the Spirit was fulfilled on the day of Pentecost, it was fulfilled not in reference to the apostles only.
– Charles Hodge
The Holy Spirit
When you say a prayer, He (The Holy Spirit) is in every word of it, and like a Holy Fire, penetrates each word.
– John of Kronstadt
Prayer | The Holy Spirit
By grace I understand the favor of God, and also the gifts and working of his Spirit in us; as love, kindness, patience, obedience, mercifulness, despising of worldly things, peace, concord, and such like.
– William Tyndale
Grace | The Holy Spirit | Gifts
Put very simply, Satan’s power in the world is everywhere. Yet wherever men and women walk in the Spirit, sensitive to the anointing they have from God, that power of his just evaporates. There is a line drawn by God, a boundary where by virtue of his own very presence Satan’s writ does not run. Let God but occupy all the space himself, and what room is left for the evil one?
– Watchman Nee
Satan | The Holy Spirit
If the faith whereby I have laid hold on Christ to be my Savior be altogether wrought in me by the Holy Ghost through grace, then I defy the devil to take away that which he never gave me or to crush that which Jehovah Himself created in me. I defy my free will to fling what it never brought to me. What God has given, created, introduced, and established in the heart, He will maintain there.
– Charles Spurgeon
Assurance | The Holy Spirit
Mere mental assimilation of these truths cannot withstand temptation, however. The revelation of God is positively essential. The Spirit of God must reveal how we are in Christ and how we are united with Him in one.
– Watchman Nee
The Holy Spirit | Unity
All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit.
– John Owen
The Holy Spirit
To seek the filling of the Holy Spirit in order to be a powerful spiritual person is solely to please himself, to make himself happy. For were he to live purely for God and His work this believer would not consider his personal happiness or feeling.
– Watchman Nee
The Holy Spirit
How little chance the Holy Ghost has nowadays. The churches and missionary societies have so bound Him in red tape that they practically ask Him to sit in a corner while they do the work themselves.
– Assorted Authors
Apathy | Missions | The Holy Spirit
Christians should not be content merely with knowing mentally the doctrine of the Holy Spirit as given in the Bible; they also need to know Him experimentally.
– Watchman Nee
Doctrine | The Holy Spirit | The Bible
In order for the inner man to be strengthened with power through the Holy Spirit, the children of God must discharge their responsibility. They need to yield specifically to the Lord, forsake every doubtful aspect in their life, be willing to obey fully God’s will, and believe through prayer that He will flood their spirit with His power.
– Watchman Nee
The Holy Spirit | Responsibility | Power
A man may read the figures on the dial, but he cannot tell how the day goes unless the sun is shining on it; so we may read the Bible over, but we cannot learn to purpose till the spirit of God shine upon it and into our hearts.
– Thomas Watson
The Bible | The Holy Spirit
Self-emptiness prepares us for spiritual fullness.
– Richard Sibbes
The Holy Spirit
There is a place where God, through the power of the Holy Ghost, reigns supreme in our lives.
– Smith Wigglesworth
The Holy Spirit | Power
To confirm whether or not we are moved by, and walk in, the Holy Spirit, we must see if any given thing harmonizes with the teaching of the Bible. The revelation of the Holy Spirit sensed by our spirit must coincide with the revelation of the Holy Spirit in Scripture.
– Watchman Nee
The Holy Spirit | The Bible
If we are full of pride and conceit and ambition and self-seeking and pleasure and the world, there is no room for the Spirit of God, and I believe many a man is praying to God to fill him when he is full already with something else.
– Dwight L. Moody
The Holy Spirit
As soon as we see the Lord Jesus on the Cross, we know our sins are forgiven ; and as soon as we see the Lord Jesus on the Throne, we know the Holy Spirit has been poured out upon us.
– Watchman Nee
The Holy Spirit | The Cross
In general, He guides and directs His people, affording them, in answer to prayer, the light of His Holy Spirit, which enables them to understand and to love the Scriptures.
– John Newton
The Holy Spirit | Scripture
Hence the emotion, mind and will remain in a spiritual man but are subject entirely to the guidance of the intuition. The emotion now rejoices solely in what the spirit likes, loves only what the spirit directs, feels merely what the spirit permits. It has become its life: when the spirit stirs, emotion responds.
– Watchman Nee
The Holy Spirit
The burdens of the spirit differ from the weights on the spirit. A burden of the spirit, on the other hand, is given by God to His child for the purpose of calling him to work, to pray, or to preach. It is a burden with purpose, with reason, and for spiritual profit.
– Watchman Nee
The Holy Spirit | Service
As a man, looking steadfastly on a dial, cannot perceive the shadow move at all, yet viewing it after a while, he shall perceive that it hath moved; so, in the hearing of the Word, but especially in the receiving of the Lord’s supper, a man may judge even his own faith, and other graces of God, to be little or nothing increased, neither can he perceive the motion of God’s Spirit in him at that time; yet by the fruits and effects thereof, he shall afterward perceive that God’s Spirit hath little by little wrought greater faith and other graces in him.
– William Gurnall
The Holy Spirit | Grace
All who are willing to accept the Bible as the Word of God recognize that inspiration is a work of the Holy Spirit and that the Scriptures would have been impossible apart from this supernatural ministry of the Holy Spirit.
– John F. Walvoord
The Bible | The Holy Spirit
The difference between knowing intuitively and knowing mentally is immeasurable. Upon this very distinction hangs the outcome of spiritual success or defeat.
– Watchman Nee
The Holy Spirit