Christianity has levelled down and the high quality is gone. We are as light as butterflies. We flit around in the sunshine, imagining we are eagles flapping our broad wings above the rocks of God. Instead of that, we are butterflies. A. W. Tozer

The truth is, God never thought of His church apart from the Holy Spirit. We were born of the Spirit. We are baptised into the body of Christ by the Spirit. We are anointed with the Spirit. We are led of the Spirit. We are taught of the Spirit, and the Spirit is the medium, the divine solution, in which God holds His church. A. W. Tozer

God’s Word to the church today is the restoration of the Spirit to His rightful place in the Church, and in your life is, by all means, the most important that could possibly take place. A. W. Tozer

Incidentally, that is the reason most people do not want to be filled with the Holy Spirit; they want to live the way they want to live and have the Holy Spirit as a bit of something extra, as you might have a diamond stickpin or something very beautiful on your clothing. They want the Holy Ghost to be something added, but the Holy Spirit will not be an addition. The Holy Spirit must be Lord or He will not come at all. A. W. Tozer

The Holy Spirit never enters a man and then lets him live like the world. You can be sure of that. A. W. Tozer

The difference between matter and spirit is that matter possesses weight, size, colour and extension in space. It can be measured and weighed and has form. But the Holy Spirit is not material, therefore He does not have weight or dimension or shape or extension in space. A. W. Tozer

The great woe is not the presence of religious toys and trifles, but the necessity for them because the presence of the Eternal Spirit is not in our midst. The tragedy and woe of the hour is trying to make up for His absence by doing these things to keep our own spirits up. A. W. Tozer

I need to modify that, for I doubt whether any Evangelical ever denied the deity of the Holy Spirit. However, we certainly neglect Him and His lordship within the Church. This failure to honour the Holy Spirit has resulted in much desolation within the Church. A. W. Tozer

“You can discover,” Tozer once instructed, “more of the Holy Spirit in five minutes on your knees in adoring worship than five years at a seminary.” Foreword

In other words, “the great tribulation” would happen once during the lifetime of His disciples and never happen again. We know this occurred at the destruction of Herod’s Temple in AD 70. There is no double fulfilment according to Jesus, who has the final word. Cindye Coates