Some people would like to be filled with the Spirit for the thrill of it. They want to be thrilled and they would pay almost any price to get the thrill. However, they will not die to themselves, to the world, or to the flesh. A. W. Tozer

A great many Christians, even gospel Christians, are facing two directions at once and they are not willing to go along one way. They want some of the world and some of Christ. They allow the Lord to disturb their way, but they also disturb the Lord’s way. A. W. Tozer

Most people would like to have the power and the peace of the Spirit with a lot of other qualities, and gifts and benefits the Holy Spirit may bring. Now the question is: can we afford to walk with the Spirit? And, are we going to walk with Him? A. W. Tozer

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