Experiencing the Holy Spirit Quotes

“It is not as if we had to seek to have more of the Spirit: we have Him in the fulness of the gift as it is. It is rather the Holy Spirit who must have more of us. As we yield ourselves entirely to Him He will entirely fill us. It is from WITHIN that the blessing must come: the fountain of living water is already there; the fountain has only to be open and every obstruction cleared and the water shall stream forth. It must spring from WITHIN.”
― Andrew Murray, Experiencing The Holy Spirit

“Why should a Christian be called upon always to deny himself, his own feeling, and will, and pleasure? Why must he part with his life—that life to maintain which a man is prepared to make any sacrifice? Why should a man hate and lose his life? The answer is very simple. It is because that life is so completely under the power of sin and death that it has to be utterly denied and sacrificed. The self-life must be wholly taken away to make room for the life of God. He that would have the full, the overflowing life of God, must utterly deny and lose his own life.”
― Andrew Murray, Experiencing The Holy Spirit

“Nothing searches and cleanses the heart like true prayer. It teaches one to ask such questions as these: Do I really desire what I pray for? Am I willing to cast out everything to make room for what God is prepared to give me? Is the prayer of my lips really the prayer of my life?”
― Andrew Murray, Experiencing the Holy Spirit

“We cannot be filled with the Spirit until we are prepared to yield ourselves to be led by the Lord Jesus—to forsake and sacrifice everything for this pearl of great price.”
― Andrew Murray, Experiencing the Holy Spirit

“A firm confidence that the blessing is actually within our reach is the first step toward obtaining it and a powerful impulse in the pursuit.”
― Andrew Murray, Experiencing the Holy Spirit

“God will take upon Himself the responsibility of making you full of the Spirit, not as a treasure which you must carry and keep, but as a power which is to carry and keep you. Therefore, only believe. Count on the love of your Father. In”
― Andrew Murray, Experiencing the Holy Spirit

“All these facts teach us that there are two ways in which the Holy Spirit works in us. The first is the preparatory operation in which He simply acts on us but does not yet take up His abode within us, though leading us to conversion and faith and ever urging us to all that is good and holy. The second is the higher and more advanced phase of His working when we receive Him as an abiding gift, as an indwelling Person, concerning whom we know that He assumes responsibility for our whole inner being, working in it both to will and to do. This is the ideal of the full Christian life.”
― Andrew Murray, Experiencing The Holy Spirit