There must be obedience there. Obedience to the word, obedience to the Spirit, obedience to the risen Lord. You must be an obedient Christian. He gives His Holy Spirit to them that obey Him. A. W. Tozer

It is God and something else that is the trouble with us; but when we get God and satisfied that we can have God and nothing else, then God gives us himself and lets us have other things too. A. W. Tozer

If there is anything bigger in your life than your desire to be a Spirit-filled Christian, then you will never be a Spirit-filled Christian until that is cured. Never. A. W. Tozer

This Spirit wants to be Lord of your life, and He wants to possess you so that you no longer are in command of the little vessel in which you sail. You are a passenger on board or one of the crew, but you are definitely not in charge. Somebody else is in charge of the vessel. A. W. Tozer

You cannot grieve unless you love and God loved the man whom He had made. The degenerate and corrupt race that descended from Him and His love caused Him to grieve, and it filled Him with anxious care. A. W. Tozer

If we just stopped all our busyness; got quiet, worshipped God, and waited on Him; we would rise above the carnality of present Christians. A. W. Tozer

The humblest Christian listening to me is called to live a life of miracles; a moral and spiritual life of such intensity and purity that no human being can do it. A. W. Tozer

But we try to get along without the Holy Spirit and that is the terrible thing. How different it is today, the contrast. We live by hearsay. A vague sense of reality and wonder is missing. A. W. Tozer

No, when the Holy Spirit comes, He takes the things of God and translates them into language our hearts understand. Even if we do not know the will of God, the Holy Ghost does, and He prays with groanings that cannot be uttered. A. W. Tozer

When a man of God stands to speak, he ought to have the authority of God on him so he makes the people responsible to listen to him. A. W. Tozer