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141 " The Holy Spirit came that He might confirm and verify the divine quality of those mighty works of Jesus and prove Him indeed to be the very God who had made the world and who could make it do what He pleased for it to do. EFE028 "
― A.W. Tozer , Tozer on the Holy Spirit: A 365-Day Devotional
142 " For all God’s good will toward us He is unable to grant us our heart’s desires till all our desires have been reduced to one. "
143 " sharp distinction must always be made between knowing about and knowing. "
144 " The meaning of self-denial is not an infliction of personal torment nor penance, but it is simply the giving up of the very principle of living for ourselves. It is completely changing the direction of our being and will, so that no longer in any sense do we act with reference to how anything will affect us, but our one thought is how it will affect God or others. "
145 " Knowing Him comes only by a personal encounter with the Holy Spirit Himself. "
146 " The Spirit is an imperative necessity. Only the Eternal Spirit can do eternal deeds. MDP066 "
147 " When a good man with this special quality and mysterious Presence is morally right and walking in all the holy ways of God and carries upon himself without even knowing it the fragrance of a kingdom that is supreme above the kingdoms of this world, I am ready to accept that as being of God and from God! "
148 " For doctrine is dynamite. "
149 " The doctrine of the Spirit is buried dynamite. "
150 " We Christians must stop apologizing for our moral position and start making our voices heard, exposing sin as the enemy of the human race and setting forth righteousness and true holiness as the only worthy pursuits for moral beings. I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it. "
151 " Our only real danger is that we may grieve the blessed Spirit into silence and so be left to the mercy of our intellects…. We’ll have the bush, pruned and trimmed and properly cultivated, but in the bush there will be no fire. "
152 " The witness is in the hidden regions of the spirit, too deep for proof, where external evidence is invalid and “signs” are of no use. When all is said, it may easily be that the great difference between professing Christians (the important difference in this day) is … between those who have reduced Christianity to an intellectual formula and those who believe that the true essence of our faith lies in the supernatural workings of the Spirit in a region of the soul not accessible to mere reason. "
153 " Mere wisdom … [makes] us hard and cold, but wisdom set on fire with love and energized by power [through the Holy Spirit] will enable us to bless the world. "
154 " We are becoming what we love. We are to a large degree the sum of our loves and we will of moral necessity grow into the image of what we love most; for love is among other things a creative affinity; it changes and molds and shapes and transforms. "
155 " [T]he Holy Spirit will not come on a church where there is no biblical body of truth. The Holy Spirit never comes into a vacuum, but where the Word of God is, there is fuel, and the fire falls and burns up the sacrifice. "
156 " A real Christian is an odd number…. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen … dies so he can live …sees the invisible, hears the inaudible, and knows that which passeth knowledge. ROR156 "
157 " God is a geometrician, He’s an artist! "
158 " how beautiful God is and how artistic and how poetic and how musical, and I worshiped God there under that tree all by myself. You know after that I began to love the old hymns and I have been a lover of the great hymns ever since. "
159 " He … will not be popular and … he will be called to stand where Jesus stood before the world: to be admired by many, loved by a few and rejected at last by the majority of men. He must be willing to pay this price; or let him go his way; Christ has nothing more to say to him now. "
160 " The call to witness and serve comes to every Christian; "