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Tozer on the Holy Spirit: A 365-Day Devotional QUOTES

1 " Anyone who wishes to check on his true spiritual condition may do so by noting what his voluntary thoughts have been over the last hours or days. "

― A.W. Tozer , Tozer on the Holy Spirit: A 365-Day Devotional

2 " GETTING ALONE WITH GOD In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength. —Isaiah 30:15 There are some things that you and I will never learn when others are present. I believe in church and I love the fellowship of the assembly. There is much we can learn when we come together on Sundays and sit among the saints. But there are certain things that you and I will never learn in the presence of other people. Unquestionably, part of our failure today is religious activity that is not preceded by aloneness, by inactivity. I mean getting alone with God and waiting in silence and quietness until we are charged with God’s Spirit. Then, when we act, our activity really amounts to something because we have been prepared by God for it. FBR130 You do not need to seek Him here or there, He is no further off than the door of your heart. There He stands lingering, waiting for whoever is ready to open and let Him in. You do not need to call to Him in the distance. He is waiting much more impatiently than you, for you to open to Him. He is longing for you a thousand times more urgently than you are for Him. It is instantaneous: the opening and the entering. BME034 "

― A.W. Tozer , Tozer on the Holy Spirit: A 365-Day Devotional

3 " Pentecost did not come and go—Pentecost came and stayed. Chronologically the day may be found on the historic calendar; dynamically it remains with us in all its fullness of power. "

― A.W. Tozer , Tozer on the Holy Spirit: A 365-Day Devotional

4 " If the Holy Spirit should come again upon us as in earlier times, visiting church congregations with the sweet but fiery breath of Pentecost, we would be greater Christians and holier souls…. "

― A.W. Tozer , Tozer on the Holy Spirit: A 365-Day Devotional

5 " So be a Bible meditator. I challenge you: Try it for a month and see how it works. Put away questions and answers and the filling in of blank lines…. Take a Bible, open it, get on your knees and say, “Father, here I am. Begin to teach me. "

― A.W. Tozer , Tozer on the Holy Spirit: A 365-Day Devotional

6 " The heart in which the Holy Spirit lives will always be characterized by gentleness, lowliness, quietness, meekness and forbearance. "

― A.W. Tozer , Tozer on the Holy Spirit: A 365-Day Devotional

7 " The Church was never intended to be a natural and intellectual organization, but a supernatural instrumentality wholly dependent upon the power of God. "

― A.W. Tozer , Tozer on the Holy Spirit: A 365-Day Devotional

8 " That the Church did not … perish was due entirely to the miraculous element within her. That element was supplied by the Holy Spirit who came at Pentecost to empower her for her task. "

― A.W. Tozer , Tozer on the Holy Spirit: A 365-Day Devotional

9 " [T]he same God who led Israel with pillar of cloud and fire, who spoke at Pentecost through the tongues of flame, who opened Peter’s prison doors, is waiting to work the greater wonders of His grace for us. "

― A.W. Tozer , Tozer on the Holy Spirit: A 365-Day Devotional

10 " the whole experience we remain our very selves. There is no destruction of substance. Each remains a separate being as before; the difference is that now the Spirit penetrates and fills our personalities and we are experientially one with God. POM066 "

― A.W. Tozer , Tozer on the Holy Spirit: A 365-Day Devotional

11 " [Jesus] is the epitome of love, kindliness, geniality, warm attractiveness and sweetness. And that is exactly what the Holy Ghost is, for He is the Spirit of the Father and the Son. "

― A.W. Tozer , Tozer on the Holy Spirit: A 365-Day Devotional

12 " The word holy is used to describe the character of angels, the nature of heaven and the character of God. "

― A.W. Tozer , Tozer on the Holy Spirit: A 365-Day Devotional

13 " Oh, that we might yearn for the knowledge and Presence of God in our lives from moment to moment, so that without human cultivation and without toilsome seeking there would come upon us this enduement that gives meaning to our witness! "

― A.W. Tozer , Tozer on the Holy Spirit: A 365-Day Devotional

14 " God, being Himself God, an uncreated being, deriving from no one, owing nothing to anybody, must necessarily be the fountain of all the love there is! "

― A.W. Tozer , Tozer on the Holy Spirit: A 365-Day Devotional

15 " But when Peter was filled with the Holy Spirit and received a divine vision and began to suffer for Jesus’ sake, he got leveled down and became the great apostle, second only to Paul in the New Testament. But God had to take those lightning charges out of Peter and stabilize him in the harness where he would work effectively and fruitfully for the "

― A.W. Tozer , Tozer on the Holy Spirit: A 365-Day Devotional

16 " It is said that heaven is a holy place where no unclean thing can enter in. "

― A.W. Tozer , Tozer on the Holy Spirit: A 365-Day Devotional

17 " Our attachment to the Person of Christ must exclude all that is contrary to Christ. "

― A.W. Tozer , Tozer on the Holy Spirit: A 365-Day Devotional

18 " The divine antidote for the satanic poison of sin is holiness…. Holiness is an attribute of God and a requirement of the people of God. "

― A.W. Tozer , Tozer on the Holy Spirit: A 365-Day Devotional

19 " The Trinity’s three fountains, eternal, infinite, pouring without measure into each other from the bottomless, boundless, shoreless sea of perfect love and bliss…. "

― A.W. Tozer , Tozer on the Holy Spirit: A 365-Day Devotional

20 " When the Church inhales the Holy Spirit she must exhale everything that is contrary to Him. "

― A.W. Tozer , Tozer on the Holy Spirit: A 365-Day Devotional