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Quotes on the Necessity of the Holy Spirit – Part II

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“Prayer is not logical; it is a mysterious moral working of the Holy Spirit.” – Oswald Chambers1

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“When we have the Holy Spirit we have all that is needed to be all that God desires us to be.” – Aiden Wilson Tozer

“The Bible without the Holy Spirit is a sundial by moonlight.” – Dwight L. Moody

“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

“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

“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

“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

“It is the signature of the Holy Ghost upon our work and witness that makes all the difference.” – Duncan Campbell

“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

“The Holy Spirit’s main ministry is not to give thrills but to create in us Christlike character.” – J. I. Packer

“God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.” – Charles Stanley

“Sanctification is the work of the Holy Spirit in us whereby our inner being is progressively changed, freeing us more and more from sinful traits and developing within us over time the virtues of Christlike character.” – Jerry Bridges

“O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.” – Saint Augustine

“When you read the New Testament, you see the Holy Spirit was supposed to change everything so that this gathering of people who call themselves Christians had this supernatural element about them.” – Francis Chan

“We take what we think are the tools of spiritual transformation into our own hands and try to sculpt ourselves into robust Christlike specimens. But spiritual transformation is primarily the work of the Holy Spirit. He is the Master Sculptor.” – Jerry Bridges

“I still enjoy watching a batter successfully cross home plate, but nothing thrills me more than seeing the Holy Spirit at work in hearts as the Gospel is carried into stadiums, across the airwaves, and around the world.”- Billy Graham

“Every time we say we believe in the Holy Spirit, we mean we believe that there is a living God able and willing to enter human personality and change it.” – John Owen


1 All of these quotes are from the following websites:

263 Quotes About The Holy Spirit | ChristianQuotes.info

TOP 25 HOLY SPIRIT QUOTES (of 838) | A-Z Quotes (azquotes.com)

Holy Spirit Quotes – BrainyQuote

Tozer on the Holy Spirit Quotes by A.W. Tozer (goodreads.com)

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