Baptism of the Holy Spirit [Updated, Annotated] Quotes

“the baptism with the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God coming upon a believer, taking possession of their faculties, and imparting to them gifts not naturally their own,”
― R.A. Torrey, Baptism of the Holy Spirit [Updated, Annotated]: How to Receive This Promised Gift

“If we would continuously know the power of God we should go often alone with Him, at the close of each day at least, and ask Him to show us if any sin, anything displeasing in His sight, has crept in that day, and if He shows us that there has, we should confess it and put it away then and there.”
― R.A. Torrey, The Baptism with the Holy Spirit

“Let’s sum up the contents of this chapter: the baptism with the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God coming upon a believer, taking possession of their faculties, and imparting to them gifts not naturally their own, but which qualify them for the service to which God has called them.”
― Reuben A. Torrey, Baptism of the Holy Spirit [Updated, Annotated]: How to Receive This Promised Gift

“Having purified your souls in the obedience of the truth, by the Spirit, in unfeigned brotherly love, love one another with a pure heart fervently, being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which lives and abides for ever. (1 Peter 1:22-23)”
― Reuben A. Torrey, Baptism of the Holy Spirit [Updated, Annotated]: How to Receive This Promised Gift

“All seven steps are stated or implied in Acts 2:38. Repent and be baptized each one of you into the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. The first three steps are brought out with exceptional definiteness and distinctness in this verse. The others that are clearly implied in the verse are brought out more explicitly by other passages to which we shall refer later.”
― R.A. Torrey, Baptism of the Holy Spirit [Updated, Annotated]: How to Receive This Promised Gift

“The Bible points out a path consisting of seven simple steps, which anyone who wants to can take, and whoever takes these seven steps will, with absolute certainty, enter into this blessing.”
― R.A. Torrey, Baptism of the Holy Spirit [Updated, Annotated]: How to Receive This Promised Gift

“but which qualify them for the service to which God has called them.”
― R.A. Torrey, Baptism of the Holy Spirit [Updated, Annotated]: How to Receive This Promised Gift