"Believing in Christ and spiritually seeing him are parallel... he that has had A CLEAR SIGHT OF THE SPIRITUAL GLORY OF CHRIST may say, I have not followed cunningly devised fables, but have been an eyewitness of his majesty, upon as good grounds as the Apostle Peter, when he had respect to the outward glory of Christ that he had seen." Jonathan Edwards, A Divine And Supernatural Light

"People are not born again when they are in bed and asleep, so that they do not know it. They FEEL it; they EXPERIENCE it. Galvanism, or the power of electricity, may be mysterious; BUT THEY PRODUCE A FEELING, A SENSATION. SO DOES THE NEW BIRTH." C. H. Spurgeon, The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Volume I, The Victory Of Faith

"A sinner saved by grace will always refer in his TESTIMONY to the MOMENT at which he EXPERIENCED new birth... You must be invaded by the Spirit of God by means of SUPERNATURAL recreation... BEWARE OF THE TENDENCY TO WATER DOWN THE SUPERNATURAL IN RELIGION."  Oswald Chambers, Bringing Sons Unto Glory & Approved Unto God

"The doctrine of REGENERATION is absolutely foundational. It is because so many do not realize this that they have a wrong view of evangelism, and become interested overmuch in decisions... in every single instance that is given in the New Testament of people receiving this gift of the Holy Spirit, it is always accompanied by much and strong feeling, and by the knowledge that they have received it... The answer of the New Testament is that when the Holy Spirit came upon the early Christians they knew it... you cannot be baptized or filled with the Spirit without knowing it." D. M. Lloyd-Jones -- Romans, The Sons Of God

"Had I a mind to HINDER THE PROGRESS OF THE GOSPEL, and to ESTABLISH THE KINGDOM OF DARKNESS, I WOULD GO ABOUT TELLING PEOPLE THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE THE SPIRIT OF GOD, AND YET NOT FEEL IT." George Whitefield, The Indwelling Of The Spirit

"If we believe not with faith divine and supernatural, we believe not at all." John Owen, The Reason Of Faith

"In that great and terrible day, there will be those WHITE WITH SHOCK when they find that they have depended upon a mental assent to Christianity instead of upon the miracle of the new birth." A. W. Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"Give someone an ELECTRIC SHOCK and I warrant you he will know it, BUT IF HE HAS THE HOLY GHOST, HE WILL KNOW IT MUCH MORE." C. H. Spurgeon, Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Vol XXX, Receiving The Holy Ghost

"A certain teaching tells us to 'take it by faith' and not to worry about feelings. 'You may feel nothing at all,' it says, 'but if you believe this Word and its teaching you can take the Holy Spirit by faith irrespective of any feeling.' THE WHOLE OF THE NEW TESTAMENT TEACHES THE OPPOSITE. So does the subsequent history of the Christian Church... YOU CANNOT BE BAPTIZED OR FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT WITHOUT KNOWING IT. IT IS THE GREATEST EXPERIENCE ONE CAN EVER KNOW. THE TEACHING THAT ASSURES US THAT WE MAY FEEL NOTHING AT ALL RUNS ENTIRELY CONTRARY NOT ONLY TO THE TEACHING OF THE SCRIPTURE BUT TO THE RECORDED EXPERIENCES OF COUNTLESS CHRISTIANS THROUGHOUT THE CENTURIES." D. M. Lloyd-Jones, Romans - The Sons Of God

"Scarce one of forty professors know what it is to be born again, to have communion with the Father through the Son, to feel the power of grace sanctifying their hearts." John Bunyan, A Discourse Touching Prayer

"In the Scriptures and in church history, persons filled with the Spirit always knew they were filled, and it was an instantaneous act, not a gradual filling." A. W. Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"All those who are true disciples of Christ have felt a divinely supernatural power working upon them... The Spirit of God came upon us, and we were awakened, aroused, and made to live. Do you remember that?" C. H. Spurgeon, Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Vol XXXV, Intimate Knowledge Of The Holy Spirit

"What a power was put forth in raising Christ from the grave when such a tombstone lay upon him as the sins of all the world! yet he was raised up by the Spirit. The same power is put forth by the Spirit of God in working faith. The Spirit irradiates the mind, and subdues the will. The will is like a garrison, which holds out against God: the Spirit with sweet violence conquers, or rather changes it; making the sinner willing to have Christ upon any terms; to be ruled by him as well as saved by him." Thomas Watson, A Body Of Divinity - Faith

"I could not make another man understand the FORCE of an electric shock unless he has felt it... Those of you that never felt the Spirit's energy, are as much strangers to it as a stone would be. You are out of your element when you hear of the Spirit. You know nothing of his divine POWER; you have never been taught of him." C. H. Spurgeon -- Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Vol VI, The Teaching Of The Holy Ghost

"How long have you believed? Would not most of you say, as long as we can remember; we never did disbelieve? Then this is a certain sign that you have no true faith at all, no, not so much as a grain of mustard seed... you must know that there was a time in which you did not believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost, if ever you received him, convinced you of your unbelief." George Whitefield, The Holy Spirit Convincing The World Of Sin, Righteousness, And Judgment

"A man's conversion is nothing, his believing is nothing, his profession is nothing unless he is made to be a new creature in Christ Jesus... If our faith has not brought with it the Holy Spirit, if, indeed, it is not the fruit of the Spirit, and we are not changed in nature and in life, then our faith is presumption, and our profession is a lie." C. H. Spurgeon, Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Vol XXX, Receiving The Holy Ghost

"Brethren, Let's not forget that the new birth is a miracle -- a major miracle! Peter in describing it relates it to the miracle of Jesus Christ rising from the dead. So there is a divine principle here -- the fact that a man truly born again is a man who has experienced regenesis, supernatural regenesis." A. W. Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"They are not Christ's that neither know how they are called, nor can give any proof that they are called... to some God speaketh in thunder, to others in a still small voice, but to all he speaketh; therefore did you ever discern God's calling and your answering?" Thomas Manton, The Epistle Of Jude, v.1

"What our Lord promised happened at Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost as we are told in the second chapter of the Book of Acts. Yet in spite of the account of the event given there I am asked to believe that it is non-experimental, that it did not lead to any feelings or to anything whatsoever in the sphere of consciousness... We are so afraid of excesses, we are so afraid of being labeled in a certain way, that we claim the baptism of the Spirit to be something unconscious, non-experimental, a happening that does not affect a man's feelings. Such an argument is utterly unscriptural." D.M. Lloyd-Jones, Ephesians - God's Ultimate Purpose

"I think the difference is in the emphasis of the major miracle which we ought to expect in genuine Christian conversion. Those old-timers would not have believed if a major miracle had not taken place. They would never have been willing to accept a pale and apologetic kind of believing on the Son of God. They insisted on a miracle taking place within the human breast. They knew what Peter meant when he said that the Lord God has begotten us unto a living hope." A. W. Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"He that professes to be a believer, while he has never received the truth in the power of it, as sent home by the Spirit of light and fire, has need to begin again, and learn the first rudiments of the faith. He has learned nothing aright who has not been under the direct tuition of the Holy Ghost." C. H. Spurgeon, Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Vol XXX, Receiving The Holy Ghost