Holy Spirit Quotes

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  Trying to do the Lord's work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Christian, Jesus, Confusing

  Corrie ten Boom (1974). “Tramp for the Lord: The Story that Begins Where The Hiding Place Ends”, p.63, CLC Publications

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• The word of God is our only standard, and the Holy Spirit our only teacher.

  George Muller

  Teacher, Spirit, Holy

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• When we have the Holy Spirit we have all that is needed to be all that God desires us to be.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Desire, Spirit, Holy

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• When you educate without the Holy Spirit, you only get a clever devil.

  Adrian Rogers

  Clever, Devil, Spirit

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• The Bible without the Holy Spirit is a sundial by moonlight.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Godly, Christian Inspirational, Spirit

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• If I were Satan and my ultimate goal was to thwart God's kingdom and purposes, one of my main strategies would be to get churchgoers to ignore the Holy Spirit.

  Francis Chan

  Goal, Would Be, Purpose

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.151, David C Cook

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• The Bible is clear that the Holy Spirit is God Himself.

  Billy Graham

  Spirit, Holy, Clear

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.58, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If the spiritual life be healthy, under the full power of the Holy Spirit, praying without ceasing will be natural.

  Andy Murray

  Spiritual, Prayer, Healthy

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• The work of the Spirit is to impart life, to implant hope, to give liberty, to testify of Christ, to guide us into all truth, to teach us all things, to comfort the believer, and to convict the world of sin.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Giving, Liberty, Comfort

  Dwight L Moody (2001). “The Secret of Success in the Christian Life”, p.58, Moody Publishers

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• I don't want the world to define God for me. I want the Holy Spirit to reveal God to me.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Christian, Religious

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• The Holy Spirit transforms and renews us, creates harmony and unity, and gives us courage and joy for mission.

  Pope Francis

  Giving, Joy, Unity

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• The Holy Spirit is a healing spirit. When the Holy Spirit is present, anything is possible.

  Reinhard Bonnke

  Christian, Religious, Healing

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• The Holy Spirit's main ministry is not to give thrills but to create in us Christlike character.

  J. I. Packer

  Character, Giving, Ministry

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• What we need is not more learning, not more eloquence, not more persuasion, not more organization, but more power from the Holy Spirit.

  John Stott

  Organization, Needs, Spirit

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• If we think of the Holy Spirit only as an impersonal power or influence, then our thought will constantly be, how can I get hold of and use the Holy Spirit; but if we think of Him in the biblical way as a divine Person, infinitely wise, infinitely holy, infinitely tender, then our thought will constantly be, 'How can the Holy Spirit get hold of and use me?'

  R. A. Torrey

  Wise, Biblical, Thinking

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• God knows what each one of us is dealing with. He knows our pressures. He knows our conflicts. And He has made a provision for each and every one of them. That provision is Himself in the person of the Holy Spirit, indwelling us and empowering us to respond rightly.

  Kay Arthur

  Empowering, Pressure, Spirit

  Kay Arthur (2009). “As Silver Refined: Learning to Embrace Life's Disappointments”, p.68, WaterBrook

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• The Holy Spirit is the bond by which Christ efficaciously unites us to himself.

  John Calvin

  Spirit, Christ, Holy

  John Calvin (2009). “Institutes of the Christian Religion Vol. 1: Translated from the Original Latin, and Collated With the Author's Last Edition in French”, p.485, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• It is futile for us to try to serve God without the power of the Holy Spirit. Talent, training, and experience cannot take the place of the power of the Spirit.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Christian, Training, Trying

  Warren W. Wiersbe (2010). “Pause for Power: A 365-Day Journey through the Scriptures”, p.278, David C Cook

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• Without the Spirit of God, we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind. We are useless.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Wind, Useless, Ships

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• Religion can reform a person’s life, but it can never transform him. Only the Holy Spirit can transform!

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Reform, Spirit, Holy

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• We declare, upon Scriptural authority, that the human will is so desperately set on mischief, so depraved, and so inclined to everything that is evil, and so disinclined to everything that is good, that without the powerful, supernatural, irresistible influence of the Holy Spirit, no human will ever be constrained towards Christ.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Powerful, Evil, Spirit

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1964). “The New Park Street Pulpit: Containing Sermons Preached and Rev”

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• Every divine action begins from the Father, proceeds through the Son, and is completed in the Holy Spirit.

  Saint Basil

  Father, Son, Spirit

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• A church in the land without the Spirit is rather a curse than a blessing. If you have not the Spirit of God, Christian worker, remember that you stand in somebody else's way; you are a fruitless tree standing where a fruitful tree might grow.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Blessing, Land

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• The cross grants us position, the Holy Spirit gives us experience.

  Watchman Nee

  Giving, Spirit, Holy

  Watchman Nee (2006). “Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons”, p.78, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• Because we have shut out the Holy Spirit in so many ways, we are stumbling along as though we are spiritually blindfolded.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Way, Spirit, Holy

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