Top 100 Quotes About The Holy Spirit
#1. The Holy Spirit not only convicts of sin but also convinces men that Jesus is the righteousness of God. He shows sinners that Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life.
Billy Graham
#2. God desires that we become spiritually healthy enough through faith to have a conscience that rightly interprets the work of the Holy Spirit.
Beth Moore
#3. The Holy Spirit is faithful to empower you to carry out your witness of Jesus.
Jim George
#4. With the right to vote, our choice should be for the Holy Spirit to lead us and guide us.
Monica Johnson
#5. The Son of God told his disciples to baptize "in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit" (Matthew 28:19). "Name," note, not "names": the three persons together constitute the one God.
J.I. Packer
#6. Wise leaders should have known that the human heart cannot exist in a vacuum. If Christians are forbidden to enjoy the wine of the Spirit they will turn to the wine of the flesh ... Christ died for our hearts and the Holy Spirit wants to come and satisfy them.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#7. Between the Bible and the Holy Spirit, you have everything you need to grow spiritually. And the more you grow, the more God can use you.
Elizabeth George
#8. If we who have the Holy Spirit living and working within us falter and fail, what hope is there for the rest of the world?
Billy Graham
#9. And it seems to me a blasphemy to say that the Holy Spirit is Love. In the Old Testament it is an Eagle: in the New it is a Dove.Christ insists on the Dove: but in His supreme moments He includes the Eagle.
D.H. Lawrence
#10. There was good reason for the silence of the Holy Spirit as to how,when, in what form Christ ordained the apostles, the reason being to show the indifferency of all forms of words
John Wycliffe
#11. The Holy Spirit showed me that when I put up walls to keep others out I also wall myself into solitary place of confinement.
Joyce Meyer
#12. The early Celtic Christians called the Holy Spirit 'the wild goose.' And the reason why is they knew that you cannot tame him.
John Eldredge
#13. We don't do the cleaning, the Holy Spirit does
R. Alan Woods
#14. Great morning prayer is like marinating in the Holy Spirit.
Mark Hart
#15. Most people who desire God look for the God state too far from home, but the seed of spiritual greatness is in the heart of all. The spiritual exercises help one find a comfortable relationship with the Eck, the Holy Spirit - and with all life.
Harold Klemp
#16. 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
#17. The Holy Spirit has a sanctifying influence. The influence of the Holy Spirit tends towards sanctification, purity and holiness. Expect to live a life of greater purity, sanctification and holiness when under the sweet influence of the Holy Spirit.
Dag Heward-Mills
#18. To call a man without the Holy Spirit "upright and God-fearing" is the same as calling Belial "Christ".
Martin Luther
#19. Only the holy spirit, the spirit of the lord, can transform us.
Joseph Prince
#20. If the spiritual life be healthy, under the full power of the Holy Spirit, praying without ceasing will be natural.
Andy Murray
#21. God is Spirit - without the Holy Spirit you cannot relate to Him.
T. B. Joshua
#22. Faith in Christ is voluntary. A person cannot be coerced, bribed, or tricked into trusting Jesus. God will not force His way into your life. The Holy Spirit will do everything possible to disturb you, draw you, love you - but finally it is your personal decision.
Billy Graham
#23. The greatest art in life is to believe in Christ. That art is learned only in the Holy Spirit's school.
Christian Scriver
#24. Faith in Christ makes one a regenerated believer; obedience to the Holy Spirit makes him a spiritual believer.
Watchman Nee
#25. The Holy Spirit's motivation is always the same thing -to charge the word with heaven's own electric power.
Reinhard Bonnke
#26. But the Holy Spirit is not simply an abstract force. He is a person who empowers the people of God for the Christian life.
R.C. Sproul
#27. Fear not, brothers and sisters, God, who is full of grace and abounding in steadfast love, meets us in our sin and transforms us for God's glory and the healing of God's world. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, your sins are forgiven, be now at peace.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#28. She glanced at their fused bodies and told him, "The nuns would say we're not leaving enough room for the Holy Spirit."
It took a second for Doran to find his breath because she'd stolen it. "That's all right. The Holy Spirit doesn't belong here. He would just get in the way.
Melissa Landers
#29. Truth is we must plant and we must water if we are to make progress with our children in holiness but only the Holy Spirit can change our children more and more into the likeness of Jesus. Our problem is we tend to depend upon our planting and watering rather than the Lord.
Jerry Bridges
#30. All ministries, therefore, must be subjected to this test - if they do not glorify Christ, they are not of the Holy Spirit.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#31. The Holy Spirit alone can do this, the Holy Spirit alone can establish this link with one's neighbor.
Jacques Ellul
#32. We have been released from the spirit of fear by the Holy Spirit, who has placed us in the body of Christ.
David Jeremiah
#33. The Holy Spirit can take God's word of truth
and minister it to our deepest needs.
Billy Graham
#34. Beauty, the splendour of truth, is a gracious presence when the imagination contemplates intensely the truth of its own being or the visible world, and the spirit which proceeds out of truth and beauty is the holy spirit of joy. These are realities and these alone give and sustain life.
James Joyce
#35. I would say it simply: No one can give that which he doesn't personally possess, which means we cannot transmit the Holy Spirit in an effective way, render the Spirit perceptible, if we ourselves aren't close to the Spirit.
Pope Benedict XVI
#36. Pagan philosophers set up reason as the sole guide of life, of wisdom and conduct; but Christian philosophy demands of us that we surrender our reason to the Holy Spirit; and this means that we no longer live for ourselves, but that Christ lives and reigns within us (Rom 12:1; Eph 4:23; Gal 2:20).
John Calvin
#37. In Scripture we read of two kinds of men-the spiritual man controlled by the Holy Spirit, and the "carnal" man who is ruled by his passions.
David Jeremiah
#38. There are at least four distinct lines of proof in the Bible that the Holy Spirit is a person.
R.A. Torrey
#39. ,iSince the Holy Spirit Gifts men and women alike, women should bel allowed to lead in the manner the Holy Spirit gifts them.
Alan Garrett
#40. We are not called to pray independently, by our merits. If we were expected to do so, there would be reason for anxiety and despair. But the call to prayer, by God's grace, is to pray in dependency on the Holy Spirit.
James W. Beeke
#41. I have assumed my clear commitment to a Trinitarian orthodoxy was sufficient evidence that I have not intentionally ignored the role of the Holy Spirit. It may be true, however, that my work has been so Christ-centred, I may have given the impression that the Holy Spirit is an afterthought.
Stanley Hauerwas
#42. The Bible without the Holy Spirit is a sundial by moonlight.
Dwight L. Moody
#43. Religion can reform a person's life, but it can never transform him. Only the Holy Spirit can transform!
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#44. Nevertheless, the Holy Spirit brings peace to your mind and heart as you uncover and make the right choice and align yourself with professional, ethical standards.
Michael J. Marx
#45. If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be.
E. Stanley Jones
#46. Moment by moment the Holy Spirit will work with your beliefs, taking you step by step as you unwind your mind from the many false concepts that you believe keep you safe and make you happy. Only the release from these false beliefs can bring you true happiness and lasting peace.
David Hoffmeister
#47. Anti-intellectualism and fullness of the Holy Spirit are mutually incompatible. Wherever the Holy Spirit has given His freedom, truth is bound to matter.
John R.W. Stott
#48. Reformation is a return to the sound doctrine of the Bible. Revival is the practice of that sound doctrine under the power of the Holy Spirit.
Francis Schaeffer
#49. The chief thing is the love of God, the love of souls, a knowledge of the Truth, and the Holy Spirit within you.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
#50. If God is your Father, you can count on the Holy Spirit to open your eyes and illumine His truth. He will burn it into your heart as you read the Bible, ingrain it into your thinking, live it out in obedience, and let Him continually keep you aligned with ultimate reality.
Stephen Kendrick
#51. How entirely does the Upanishad breathe throughout the holy spirit of the Vedas! How is every one who by a diligent study of its Persian Latin has become familiar with that incomparable book stirred by that spirit to the very depth of his Soul !
Arthur Schopenhauer
#52. Though the Holy Spirit is God, equal in essence to the Father and the Son, yet his role is consistently to defer honor, to seek to bring about the glory of another.
Bruce A. Ware
#53. It is the heart itself that must be converted to God, and the Holy Spirit transforms it when we open ourselves to him.
Pope Francis
#54. Saint Thomas Aquinas explains how, with the gifts of the Holy Spirit, a person's whole spiritual being becomes responsive to God's light, not only the light of knowledge but also the inspiration of love. I have prayed for the gifts of the Holy Spirit since my youth and I continue to do so.
Pope John Paul II
#55. The Holy Spirit, out of compassion for our weakness, comes to us even when we are impure. And if He finds our intellect truly praying to Him, He enters it and puts to flight the whole array of thoughts and ideas circling within it, and He arouses it to a longing for spiritual prayer.
Evagrius Ponticus
#56. The Holy Spirit said I was blessed and was going to touch hearts everywhere.
LeAnn Rimes
#58. When I sing, it's the most solitary state: just me, and the microphone, and the holy spirit. It's not about notes or scales, it's all about emotion.
Sinead O'Connor
#59. This is the secret of being content: To learn and accept that we live daily by God's unmerited favor given through Christ, and that we can respond to any and every situation by His divine enablement through the Holy Spirit.
Jerry Bridges
#60. You can't have any doubt whatsoever when operating in the faith realm. Sometimes the least little
hesitation can allow doubt to override faith. So we mustn't hesitate anytime the Holy Spirit tells/prompts us to act.
Calvin W. Allison
#61. Revival is an infusion of new spiritual life imparted by the Holy Spirit to existing parts of Christ's body.
Richard Lovelace
#62. It's easy to write for God and about God, because what a thrill to remind the church that the Holy Spirit of God is in you. What a rush! What an amazing blessing!
Francis Chan
#63. More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
Anonymous
#64. We define ourselves in relationship to Christ: who we are is how we relate to him. The Son, sent by the Father, lives in us through the Holy Spirit, and we can't truly meet ourselves until we meet him.
Adam S. McHugh
#65. The one surefire key to victory as a Christian in this fallen world is to be filled with the Holy Spirit - that is, to be completely submitted to and empowered by him.
Pedro Okoro
#66. In my experience, take the Holy Spirit out of the equation of your life and it spells boring. Add it into the equation of your life and you never know where you are going to go, what you are going to do, or who you are going to meet.
Mark Batterson
#67. The Holy Spirit opens the inner recesses of our hearts and enables us to see the moral cesspools hidden there.
Jerry Bridges
#68. There is the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, they are persons, they are not some vague idea in the clouds. This God spray does not exist! The three persons exist!
Pope Francis
#69. There's so much to be grateful for, and praising God for giving you His Spirit is a great place to begin.
Even if you don't think you have much to be grateful for right now, know that you can always praise God for the Holy Spirit's presence in your life!
Stormie O'martian
#70. Breathing is made up of two stages: inhaling, the intake of air, and exhaling, the letting out of air. The spiritual life is fed, nourished, by prayer and is expressed outwardly through mission: inhaling and exhaling. When we inhale, by prayer, we receive the fresh air of the Holy Spirit.
Pope Francis
#71. A backslider, if there be a spark of life left in him will groan after restoration. No man can be renewed without as real and true a manifestation of the Holy Spirit's energy as he felt at first,
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#72. I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.
J.I. Packer
#73. The Holy Spirit knows what a particular age's most pressing need is far better than men with their programs.
Hans Urs Von Balthasar
#74. Prayer is spiritual breathing; when we pray we breathe in the Holy Spirit; praying in the Holy Spirit (Jd. 1:20). Thus, all church prayers are the breathing of the Holy Spirit; as it were spiritual air and also light, spiritual fire, spiritual food and spiritual raiment.
John Of Kronstadt
#75. If we could simply live in the light of our bodies being temples of the Holy Spirit, our daily life would be transformed.
Elizabeth George
#76. The holy spirit means the invisible power of Jehovah, holy because he is holy. This power of Jehovah operated upon the minds of honest men who loved and who were devoted to righteousness, directing them in the writing of the Bible.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford
#77. A true biblical eschatology prepares overcomers for the difficulties they must endure and helps them to stand with confidence that the greatest outpouring of the Holy Spirit is surely coming.
Mike Bickle
#78. The most reliable and proper feeling is often a gentle sense that does not compel. It is like a voice but not a voice; it is a sense that prompts but does not compel. This most precious sense is the operating and anointing of the Holy Spirit within our spirit.
Witness Lee
#79. But when the Holy Spirit controls our lives, he will produce this kind of fruit in us: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Galatians 5:22
Nicholas Sparks
#80. If we desire the "hand of God" (i.e., his power) to return to our churches, we should focus less on the personalities and abilities of people, and more on Jesus and the power of the Holy Spirit.
Jim Cymbala
#81. If you see the Holy Spirit as a power, you will say 'I want more of the Holy Spirit' (especially in time of need). But if you see Him more as a Person, you will say 'I want the Holy Spirit to have more of me.'
Skip Heitzig
#82. Christians, for instance, are not, properly speaking, believers in religion; rather, they believe that Jesus of Nazareth, crucified under Pontius Pilate, rose from the dead and is now, by the power of the Holy Spirit, present to his church as its Lord.
David Bentley Hart
#83. So what are we to do with our fear, our anger, the clouds that cover the love inside us? Relinquish them to the Holy Spirit. He
Marianne Williamson
#84. We can not effectively serve God without the Holy Spirit.
Derek Prince
#85. You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you ... (Acts 1:8) - not power as a gift from the Holy Spirit; the power is the Holy Spirit, not something that He gives us.
Oswald Chambers
#86. Pulling weeds and planting seeds. That's the story of life. We are individual lots on which either weeds of selfishness or fruit of the Holy Spirit grows and flourishes.
Dennis Rainey
#87. There is a difference in having head knowledge about the Holy Spirit and being surrendered to the Holy Spirit.
Zach Williams
#88. A spiritual Christian therefore is one whose spirit is led by God's Spirit ... Perhaps their speech does convey truth, but without the quickening of the Holy Spirit even truth is of small advantage.
Watchman Nee
#89. Knowledge is wisdom that comes from acquiring truth. Insight is wisdom that comes from living out the truth we acquire. Discernment is wisdom that comes from the Holy Spirit's reminders of that knowledge and insight.
Lysa TerKeurst
#91. I love the image of the Holy Spirit enfolding the world in her wings, caring for it the way that a mother holds her baby close.
Tim Muldoon
#92. Relationships are the Holy Spirit's laboratories in which He brings together people who have the maximal opportunity for mutual growth.
Marianne Williamson
#93. Trauma cracks us open (or for some of us, cuts us open) so the Holy Spirit can get in. So we can "right" ourselves.
Carolyn Weber
#94. Peace comes by knowing you're dearly loved by the Lord, Who gives to His children the Holy Spirit to dwell within, to make their witness strong, so that one day they will be as a tree, fruitful and blessed with the wisdom of the forest.
Calvin W. Allison
#95. We need the Holy Spirit to change our hearts if we are going to be willing to come to God and hear his word submissively.
Vern Sheridan Poythress
#96. Let this be to you the mark of true gospel preaching - where Christ is everything, and the creature is nothing; where it is salvation all of grace, through the work of the Holy Spirit applying to the soul the precious blood of Jesus.
Charles Spurgeon
#97. The Holy Spirit builds on the smooth ground of humility. That's why God will tear you down in order to build you back up.
Alisa Hope Wagner
#98. I say therefore that he sins against the Holy Spirit who, while so constrained by the power of divine truth that he cannot plead ignorance, yet deliberately resists, and that merely for the sake of resisting.
John Calvin
#99. If the holy spirit is in you, you are free, even if you are in a physical jail
Sunday Adelaja
#100. The gospel of the kingdom must be preached with evidence; it must be preached as a witness.This can only be done by christians who are filled with the Holy Spirit.
T.L. Osborn
