Pentecost Quotes

• Without Pentecost the Christ-event - the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus - remains imprisoned in history as something to remember, think about and reflect on. The Spirit of Jesus comes to dwell within us, so that we can become living Christs here and now.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Jesus, Thinking

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• Pentecost is a celebration of God... a celebration of God's power... a celebration of God's desire to empower us and to dwell within us.

  Mark Hart

  Empowering, Desire, Celebration

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• Bethlehem was God with us, Calvary was God for us, and Pentecost is God in us.

  Robert Baer

  Oneness, God With Us, Bethlehem

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• We do not need to wait for the Holy Spirit to come: he came on the day of Pentecost. He has never left the church.

  John Stott

  Waiting, Church, Needs

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• When you strip it of everything else, Pentecost stands for power and life. That's what came into the church when the Holy Spirit came down on the day of Pentecost.

  David Wilkerson

  Church, Spirit, Holy

  David Wilkerson (1986). “The Cross and the Switchblade”, p.39, Penguin

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• I owe everything to the gift of Pentecost. For fifty days the facts of the Gospel were complete, but no conversions were recorded. Pentecost registered three thousand souls. It is by fire that a holy passion is kindled in the soul whereby we live the life of God. The soul's safety is in its heat. Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, make for a Church without power.

  Samuel Chadwick

  God, Christian, Truth

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• There is only one purpose of pentecost; that is to effectively evangelize lost souls.

  T.L. Osborn

  Soul, Purpose, Spirit

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• Pentecost came with the sound of a mighty rushing wind, a violent blast from heaven! Heaven has not exhausted its blasts, but our danger is we are getting frightened of them.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Wind, Rushing, Heaven

  Smith Wigglesworth (2006). “Smith Wigglesworth on Prayer”, p.213, Destiny Image Publishers

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• My brethren, do you believe in the Holy Ghost?...Have we such a reliance upon the Holy Ghost? Do we believe that, at this moment, He can clothe us with power, even as He did the apostles at Pentecost? Do we believe that, under our preaching, by His energy a thousand might be born in a day?

  Charles Spurgeon

  Believe, Energy, Might

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• Christians have no business thinking that the good life consists mainly in not doing bad things. We have no business thinking that to do evil in this world you have to be a Bengal tiger, when, in fact, it is enough to be a tame tabby—a nice person but not a good one. In short, Pentecost makes it clear that nothing is so fatal to Christianity as indifference.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Christian, Good Life, Nice

  William Sloane Coffin (1985). “Living the Truth in a World of Illusions”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• 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 Mott

  Prayer, Spirit, Gods Will

  World Student Christian Federation, John Raleigh Mott (1898). “The World's Student Christian Federation: Origin, Objects and Significance of the Federation; the Convention at Northfield and Williamstown; Some Achievements of the First Two Years”

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• From the first Day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit has proven that He will only come to the degree that we have unity.

  Rick Joyner

  Unity, Degrees, Firsts

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• The holy mystery of the day of the Holy Spirit, Pentecost, is to be understood in the following manner: the spirit of man must be completed and perfected by the Holy Spirit, that is, it must be sanctified, illuminated, and divinized by the Holy Spirit. This holy mystery is realized continually in the Church of Christ and because of this the Church is really a continuous Pentecost.... From Holy Pentecost, the day of the Holy Spirit, every God-like soul in the Church of Christ is an incombustible bush which continuously burns and is inflamed with God and has a fiery tongue within it.

  Justin Popovic

  Men, Soul, Church

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• 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

  Promise, Spirit, Fulfilled

  Charles Hodge (1855). “What is Presbyterianism?: An Address Delivered Before the Presbyterian Historical Society at Their Anniversary Meeting in Philadelphia, on Tuesday Evening, May 1, 1855”, p.27

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• We need a quickening of faith; faith in the power of the God of Pentecost to convict and convert three thousand in a day. Faith, not in a process of culture by which we hope to train children into a state of salvation, but faith in the mighty God who can quicken a dead soul into life in a moment; faith in moral and spiritual revolution rather than evolution.

  A. C. Dixon

  Faith, Spiritual, Children

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• The history of missions is the history of answered prayer.

  Samuel Marinus Zwemer

  Prayer, Christian Inspirational, Missionary

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• It is the Holy Ghost in us that is everything, and the Father is willing to bestow Him upon the weakest if he will only ask in the spirit of implicit faith and entire self-surrender. My cry these days is for a Pentecost, first on myself and my missionary brethren, and then on the native Church, and then on the heathen at large.

  Griffith John

  Father, Self, Church

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• God pity us that after years of writing, using mountains of paper and rivers of ink, exhausting flashy terminology about the biggest revival meetings in history, we are still faced with gross corruption in every nation, as well as with the most prayerless church age since Pentecost.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Writing, Years, Rivers

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• The Apostle Peter preaching on the day of Pentecost of the risen Savior, says, "God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ." And He speaks of Him as the anointed One, exalted at God's right hand. The Gospel is the Gospel of the Risen Christ. There would be no Gospel for sinners if Christ had not been raised. So the apostle says, "If Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins"

  Henry Allen Ironside

  Jesus, Hands, Would Be

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• What, for some, is sin, others do to the glory of God. And the good Dr. Pentecost's remarks notwithstanding , I intend to go home tonight and smoke a cigar to the glory of God. It is a kind of incense drifting to Heaven.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Home, Heaven, Tonight

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• St. Peter announced the glad tidings of the Gospel to the people on the day of Pentecost, and converted, by the first Christian sermon, ever preached, three thousand - which formed the primitive Church.

  John Strachan

  Christian, People, Church

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• So these are the kind of things that now when people are trying to move towards multiracial congregations that they're stressing. They're talking about these scriptures that say we ought to come together, and that at Pentecost, when that the Holy Spirit is said to have come upon the first Christians, they were given the ability to speak in different languages, and so that no matter who the people were, they could all worship together.

  Michael Emerson

  Christian, Stress, Moving

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The history of missions is the history of answered prayer. From Pentecost to the Haystack meeting in New England and from the days when Robert Morrison landed in China to the martyrdom of John and Betty Stam, prayer has been the source of power and the secret of spiritual triumph.

  Samuel Marinus Zwemer

  Spiritual, Prayer, Secret

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• The hope is that papal calls for a New Pentecost, which go back to St. John XXIII, and papal calls for a New Evangelization, which go back to Vatican II and especially to St. John Paul II, can come together. Pope Francis' vision is to bring together the reality of a New Pentecost with the urgency of a New Evangelization.

  Ralph Martin

  Reality, Vision, Together

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• Our understanding of early Christian beginnings is usually monolithic. It is much determined by the Acts of the Apostles, which pictures a straightforward development from the primitive community in Jerusalem founded on Pentecost to the world-wide mission of Paul climaxing with his arrival in Rome, the political centre of the Greco-Roman world. The Pauline epistles are understood not so much as historical sources reflecting a much more multifaceted early Christian situation fraught with tensions but as theological treatises expounding and defending the doctrine of justification by faith.

  Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

  Christian, Rome, Community

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