Holy Spirit Quotes

• Without the Spirit of God, we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind. We are useless.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Wind, Useless, Ships

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

  48 Copy quote

  Show source

• Jesus gives us the gift of the Holy Spirit, yet when the Spirit comes, He is loaded with packages! He desires to release much more in us and through us than we could ever imagine. These gifts are given for delivery, not for accumulation. We receive them to pass them on to others.

  Jack W. Hayford

  Jesus, Giving, Desire

  Jack W. Hayford, Jr. (2003). “Explaining the Trinity”, p.37, Sovereign World Ltd

  89 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Giving, Liberty, Comfort

  Dwight L Moody (2001). “The Secret of Success in the Christian Life”, p.58, Moody Publishers

  158 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  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

  Christian, Jesus, Confusing

  Corrie ten Boom (1974). “Tramp for the Lord: The Story that Begins Where The Hiding Place Ends”, p.63, CLC Publications

  245 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't want the world to define God for me. I want the Holy Spirit to reveal God to me.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Christian, Religious

  73 Copy quote

• What we need is not more learning, not more eloquence, not more persuasion, not more organization, but more power from the Holy Spirit.

  John Stott

  Organization, Needs, Spirit

  118 Copy quote

• The Holy Spirit's main ministry is not to give thrills but to create in us Christlike character.

  J. I. Packer

  Character, Giving, Ministry

  51 Copy quote

• 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

  Christian, Training, Trying

  Warren W. Wiersbe (2010). “Pause for Power: A 365-Day Journey through the Scriptures”, p.278, David C Cook

  41 Copy quote

  Show source

• Religion can reform a person’s life, but it can never transform him. Only the Holy Spirit can transform!

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Reform, Spirit, Holy

  49 Copy quote

• 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

  Wise, Biblical, Thinking

  130 Copy quote

• God knows what each one of us is dealing with. He knows our pressures. He knows our conflicts. And He has made a provision for each and every one of them. That provision is Himself in the person of the Holy Spirit, indwelling us and empowering us to respond rightly.

  Kay Arthur

  Empowering, Pressure, Spirit

  Kay Arthur (2009). “As Silver Refined: Learning to Embrace Life's Disappointments”, p.68, WaterBrook

  69 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every divine action begins from the Father, proceeds through the Son, and is completed in the Holy Spirit.

  Saint Basil

  Father, Son, Spirit

  61 Copy quote

• You have a God who hears you, the power of love behind you, the Holy Spirit within you, and all of heaven ahead of you. If you have the Shepherd, you have grace for every sin, direction for every turn, a candle for every corner and an anchor for every storm. You have everything you need.

  Max Lucado

  Love Is, Anchors, Heaven

  Max Lucado (2009). “Traveling Light: Premier Library Edition”, p.33, Thomas Nelson Inc

  285 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Holy Spirit illuminates the minds of people, makes us yearn for God, and takes spiritual truth and makes it understandable to us.

  Billy Graham

  Spiritual, People, Mind

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.58, Thomas Nelson Inc

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Holy Spirit is a healing spirit. When the Holy Spirit is present, anything is possible.

  Reinhard Bonnke

  Christian, Religious, Healing

  227 Copy quote

• If the Holy Spirit was withdrawn from the church today, 95 percent of what we do would go on and no one would know the difference. If the Holy Spirit had been withdrawn from the New Testament church, 95 percent of what they did would stop, and everybody would know the difference.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Church Today, Differences

  32 Copy quote

• Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.

  Charles Stanley

  Godly, Spirit, Holy

  Charles Stanley (2006). “Walking Wisely: Real Life Solutions for Life's Journey”, p.22, Thomas Nelson Inc

  50 Copy quote

  Show source

• We must be careful not to choose, but to let God's Holy Spirit manage our lives; not to smooth down and explain away, but to stir up the gift and allow God's Spirit to disturb us and disturb us and disturb us until we yield and yield and yield and the possibility in God's mind for us becomes an established fact in our lives, with the rivers in evidence meeting the need of a dying world.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Letting Go, Yield, Rivers

  Smith Wigglesworth (2016). “Smith Wigglesworth on Manifesting the Power of God: Walking in God's Anointing Every Day of the Year”, p.123, Destiny Image Publishers

  681 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Holy Spirit's power cannot be harnessed. His power cannot be used to accomplish anything other than the Father's will. He is not a candy dispenser. He is not a vending machine. He is not a genie waiting for someone to rub His lamp the right way. He is holy God.

  Charles Stanley

  Father, Waiting, Lamps

  Charles Stanley (1995). “The Wonderful Spirit-Filled Life”, p.78, Thomas Nelson Inc

  22 Copy quote

  Show source

• Were it not for the work of the Holy Spirit there would be no gospel, no faith, no church, no Christianity in the world at all.

  J. I. Packer

  Church, Would Be, World

  29 Copy quote

• I firmly believe that the moment our hearts are emptied of pride and selfishness and ambition and self-seeking and every thing that is contrary to God's law, the Holy Ghost will come and fill every corner of our hearts; but if we are full of pride and conceit and ambition and self-seeking and pleasure and the world, there is no room for the Spirit of God; and I believe many a man is praying to God to fill him when he is full already with something else.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Believe, Heart, Ambition

  Dwight L Moody (2013). “Secret Power”, p.20, Lulu Press, Inc

  38 Copy quote

  Show source

• The less Holy Spirit we have, the more cake and coffee we need to keep the church going.

  Reinhard Bonnke

  Funny, God, Faith

  Reinhard Bonnke (2017). “Holy Spirit Are We Flammable or Fireproof?”, p.37, CFAN Publications

  411 Copy quote

  Show source

• Nearly 60% of Americans who regularly attend Christian church say there is no such thing as the Holy Spirit—they say the Holy Spirit is just a symbol of God’s power or presence or purity.

  George Barna

  Christian, Church, Spirit

  19 Copy quote

• The human spirit fails, except when the Holy Spirit fills.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Life Changing, Spirit, Failing

  24 Copy quote

• The Holy Spirit says: You are it. You are God's plan. In a thirsty world, people need to be refreshed. It is a broken world, and people need to be healed. Now get out there and do it!

  John Ortberg

  People, Broken, Needs

  6 Copy quote