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41 " The Spirit cannot fill whom He cannot separate, and whom He cannot fill, He cannot make holy, and whom He cannot make holy, He cannot make happy! "
― A.W. Tozer , Tozer on the Holy Spirit: A 365-Day Devotional
42 " The best way to keep the enemy out is to keep Christ in. "
43 " The workings of God in the hearts of redeemed men always overflow into observable conduct. Certain moral changes will take place immediately in the life of the new convert. A moral revolution without will accompany the spiritual revolution that has occurred within. "
44 " Yet there is considerable truth in the idea that revivals are born after midnight, for revivals … come only to those who want them badly enough. It may be said without qualification that every man is as holy and as full of the Spirit as he wants to be. "
45 " Spirit of God, descend upon my heart; Wean it from earth, through all its pulses move; Stoop to my weakness, mighty as Thou art, And make me love Thee as I ought to love. "
46 " The instructed Christian … will practice the presence of God and never allow himself to become devil-conscious. BAM043 Brother Lawrence … wouldn’t pick up a straw from the ground but for the love of God. When he was dying … [h]e said, “…When I die I won’t change my occupation. I have just been worshiping God for 40 years on earth, and when I get to heaven I’ll just keep right on doing what I am doing. "
47 " The spiritual quality of a prayer is determined not by its intensity but by its origin. In evaluating prayer we should inquire who is doing the praying—our determined hearts or the Holy Spirit? "
48 " If the prayer originates with the Holy Spirit, then the wrestling can be beautiful and wonderful; but if we are the victims of our own overheated desires, "
49 " our praying can be as carnal as any other act. "
50 " If you are His child taking some abuse or persecution for His sake, His great concern is the attitude that you will show in return. Will you reveal a stubborn spirit intent upon revenge? If you resist the Spirit of God asking you to demonstrate the love and grace of Jesus Christ, your Savior, you can be sure of one thing: God will resist you! "
51 " He who does not seek and find God everywhere, and in everything, finds Him nowhere and in nothing. And he who is not at the Lord’s service in everything, is at His service in nothing. "
52 " Truth must be understood by inward illumination. Then we know the truth. Until that time, we do not know it…. "
53 " In every Christian’s heart there is a cross and a throne, and the Christian is on the throne till he puts himself on the cross. "
54 " Truth becomes real to us within our beings by obedience and faith. "
55 " It is the privilege of every Christian to live so fully in God that he never gets out of the experienced Presence for one moment…. The whole life becomes a prayer … thoughts become mental prayers, deeds become prayers in action and even sleep may be but unconscious prayer. "
56 " It must be the truth of God and the Spirit of God. When a person, yielding to God and believing the truth of God, is filled with the Spirit of God, even his faintest whisper will be worship. "
57 " I have come to believe that he was so completely yielded to God, so completely and fully taken up with the Presence of the Holy Ghost that all of nature was friendly to him…. "
58 " do not for one second let the crowds, the "
59 " bustle of religious activity, the surge of religious thinking fool you into supposing that there is a vast amount of spirituality. It is not so. "
60 " If you could take all of the sin out of this world, suddenly extract it, there would be nothing in all the world to be ashamed of and nothing to be afraid of. "