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21 " We must recognize the true character of our self-life…. We must consent to its destruction … and lay it at the feet of God in willing sacrifice. "
― A.W. Tozer , Tozer on the Holy Spirit: A 365-Day Devotional
22 " The Holy Spirit is called the Spirit of Christ … because He brings to us the presence of Jesus and enables us to realize our oneness with Him. "
23 " the Scripture leaves us with the belief that in order to accept there are some things you must reject. In order to affirm there are things you have to deny; in order to say yes you have to be able to say no. "
24 " Jesus, breathe Thy Spirit on me, Teach me how to breathe Thee in, Help me pour into Thy bosom All my life of self and sin. "
25 " God desires to advance His work among men by frequent outpourings of the Spirit upon His people as they need them and are prepared to receive them…. "
26 " In brief, the teaching of the New Testament is that the outpouring at Pentecost was the historic beginning of an era which was to be characterized by a continuous outpouring of the Holy Spirit. "
27 " In the majority of our meetings there is scarcely a trace of reverent thought, no recognition of the unity of the body, little sense of the divine Presence, no moment of stillness, no solemnity, no wonder, no holy fear…. "
28 " The whole Christian family stands desperately in need of a restoration of penitence, humility and tears. May God send them soon. "
29 " We have almost everything, but there’s one thing that the churches, even the gospel churches, do not have: that is the ability to worship. We are not cultivating the art of worship. "
30 " We would do well to follow our old-fashioned forbears who knew what it was to kneel in breathless, wondering adoration in the presence of God. "
31 " We must, for instance, be careful that our repentance is not simply a change of location. Whereas we once sinned in the far country among the swineherds, we are now chumming with religious persons, considerably cleaner and much more respectable in appearance, to be sure, but no nearer to true heart purity than we were before. "
32 " Worship means to “express in some appropriate manner” what you feel. Now, expressing in some appropriate manner doesn’t mean that we always express it in the same way all the time. And it doesn’t mean that you will always express your worship in the same manner. But it does mean that it will be expressed in some manner. "
33 " God wants us to worship Him. He doesn’t need us, for He couldn’t be a self-sufficient God and need anything or anybody, but He wants us. When Adam sinned it was not he who cried, “God, where art Thou?” It was God who cried, “Adam, where art thou? "
34 " When the Holy Spirit is ignored or rejected, religious people are forced either to do their own creating or to fossilize completely. "
35 " The scriptural way to see things is to set the Lord always before us, put Christ in the center of our vision, and if Satan is lurking around he will appear on the margin only and be seen as but a shadow on the edge of the brightness. "
36 " It is hard to imagine a more painful disillusionment than to come to the judgment seat of Christ and find that all our earthly lives we had been striving after the flesh and never permitting the creative Holy Spirit to work in us that which was pleasing in His sight. "
37 " God desires to take us deeper into Himself. We will have much to learn in the school of the Spirit. He wants to lead us on in our love for Him who first loved us. "
38 " There is a way of release from [the] tyranny [of the flesh]. It is by the cross of Jesus…. That ends the bondage of the flesh. The power to live free from it comes from the Holy Ghost. "
39 " True holiness is a sense of awareness of the other world, a mysterious quality and difference that has come to rest upon some…. "
40 " The facts are that God is not silent, has never been silent. It is the nature of God to speak. The second Person of the Holy Trinity is called the Word. "