Pentecost Day Quotes

#1. Peter and others who experienced the special filling on Pentecost Day (2:4) were filled with the Spirit again and again (4:8, 31; 6:5; 7:55) and so boldly spoke the word of God. That was just the beginning. The fullness of the Spirit affects all areas of life, not just speaking boldly (

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#2. Luther's objection to the antinomian preachers of his day, who were "fine Easter preachers but disgraceful Pentecost preachers, for they taught only redemption through Christ and not the sanctification through the Holy Spirit."16

Mark Jones

#3. When you strip it of everything else, Pentecost stands for power and life. That's what came into the church when the Holy Spirit came down on the day of Pentecost.

David Wilkerson

#4. When the great promise of the Spirit was fulfilled on the day of Pentecost, it was fulfilled not in reference to the apostles only.

Charles Hodge

#5. How many dead can a person see before the pieces of his soul turn to ash and float off in the wind?

Bobby Adair

#6. A philosophy of work is essential if we would be whole men, holy men, healthy men, joyous men. A certain amount of goods is necessary for a man to lead a good life, and we have to make that kind of society where it is easier for men to be good.

Dorothy Day

#7. We Christians should be aware that there's something at stake in cultural participation that we wouldn't have been concerned about if all we did was worry about the messages in culture.

Dallas Willard

#8. From the day of Pentecost until the present time, it has been necessary to be of one accord in prayer before the Spirit of God will work with mighty converting power.

John Mott

#9. The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.

Walter Benjamin

#10. My brethren, do you believe in the Holy Ghost? ... Have we such a reliance upon the Holy Ghost? Do we believe that, at this moment, He can clothe us with power, even as He did the apostles at Pentecost? Do we believe that, under our preaching, by His energy a thousand might be born in a day?

Charles Spurgeon

#11. As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he's a great military man, I want you to know that.

Norman Schwarzkopf

#12. I stand on victory ground for today. I claim all the work of the cross of Jesus, His resurrection power, His ascended authority, and Pentecost for all my victory. You are Lord of all my life this day. In Jesus' name, Amen.

Sylvia Gunter

#13. The shoes themselves were light green, with lowish heels (which were very important for comfort and walking; high heels were always a temptation, but, like all temptations, one paid for them later).

Alexander McCall Smith

#14. The Spirit is as operative today in communicating the gospel to all who seek the truth as it was on the day of Pentecost anciently.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#15. [..] when a friendship has become a matter of arranging to meet, dates in diaries, agreement that next week or the next are 'no good', then it has been silently acknowledged that the old intimacy has gone.

A. N. Wilson

#16. Before three thousand people were brought into the church on the day of Pentecost, the disciples had spent fifty days in prayer, fasting, and spiritual travail.

Billy Graham

#17. Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Og Mandino

#18. I don't think Kenya is the only country that tries to induce amnesia - it seems to be a global phenomenon. But offenses do not die. They do not disappear.

Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

#19. Pentecost was the day of power of the Holy Spirit. It was the day the Christian church was born.

Billy Graham

#20. Hizb ut-Tahrir spearheaded the radicalization of the 1990s and cultivated an atmosphere of anger.

Maajid Nawaz

#21. From the first Day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit has proven that He will only come to the degree that we have unity.

Rick Joyner

#22. Experience has proved that there is no difference between a so-called realist painting - of a landscape, for example - and an abstract painting. They both have more or less the same effect on the observer.

Gerhard Richter

#23. St. Peter announced the glad tidings of the Gospel to the people on the day of Pentecost, and converted, by the first Christian sermon, ever preached, three thousand - which formed the primitive Church.

John Strachan

#24. In the current febrile climate Isis needs Donald Trump and Donald Trump needs Isis.

Jack Dromey

#25. May be we are not such fools as we look. But though we be, we are well content, so long as we may be two fools together.

R.D. Blackmore

#26. I usually want to crawl into the ground after I make a film, almost invariably.

Woody Allen

#27. Suppose that you didn't make your Easter duty and it's Pentecost Sunday, the last day, and you're on a ship at sea. And the chaplain goes into a coma! But you wanted to receive. And then it's Monday, too late ... But then you cross the International Date Line! Would that then be a sin then, Father?

George Carlin

#28. The new covenant only begins after the cross, when the Holy Spirit was given on the day of Pentecost. There is a lot of confusion and wrong believing in the church today because many Christians read their Bibles without rightly dividing the old and new covenants.

Joseph Prince

#29. A friend is he who can feel you, adore you, understand you, and never leave you.

Debasish Mridha

#30. We do not need to wait for the Holy Spirit to come: he came on the day of Pentecost. He has never left the church.

John Stott