1.  The first work of the Spirit is to make a man look upon sin as an enemy and to deal with sin as an enemy, to hate it as an enemy, to loathe it is an enemy and to arm against it as an enemy.  (Thomas Brooks)

2.  The Spirit never loosens where the Word binds; the Spirit never justifies where the Word condemns; the Spirit never approves where the Word disapproves; the Spirit never blesses where the Word curses.  (Thomas Brooks)

3.  As the soul does not live idly in the body, but gives motion and vigour to every member and part, so the Spirit of God cannot dwell in us without manifesting himself by the outward effects.  (Calvin)

4.  The gospel is light but only the Spirit can give sight.  (Tozer)

5.  I do not believe in a repetition of Pentecost, but I do believe in a perpetuation of Pentecost – and there is a vast difference between the two.  (Tozer)

6.  The fruit of the Spirit is not excitement or orthodoxy: it is character.  (G.B. Duncan)

7.  With a perversity as pathetic as it is impoverishing we have become preoccupied today with the sporadic extraordinary and non-universal ministries of the Spirit to the neglect of…the more general ones.  (Packer)

8.  Before Christ sent the church into the world, he sent the Spirit into the church.  The same order must be observed today.  (John Stott)

9.  When we rely on organisation, we get what organisation can do.  When we rely upon education, we get what education can do.  When we rely on eloquence, we get what eloquence can do.  But when we rely on the Holy Spirit, we get what God can do.  (A.C. Dixon)

10. Without the Spirit of God we can do nothing.  We are as ships without wind or chariots without steeds.  Like branches without sap, we are withered.  Like coals without fire, we are useless.  As an offering without the sacrificial flame, we are unaccepted.  (Spurgeon)