He is a Person - Tozer

Quench not the Spirit.  1 Thessalonians 5:19

I think you will agree with me when I say that many people are confused about the Spirit of God.  The Holy Spirit, for instance, is not enthusiasm.  Some people get enthusiasm, and they imagine it is the Holy Spirit... Spell this out in capital letters:  THE HOLY SPIRIT IS A PERSON.  He is not enthusiasm.  He is not courage.  He is not energy.  He is not the personification of all good qualities, like Jack Frost is the personification of cold weather.  Actually, the Holy Spirit is not the personfication of anything.  He is a Person, the same as you are a person, but not material substance.  He has individuality.  He is one being and not another.  He has will and intelligence.  He has hearing.  He has knowledge and sympathy and ability to love and see and think.  He can hear, speak, desire, grieve and rejoice.  He is a Person... The Holy Spirit can communicate with you and can love you.  He can be grieved when you resist and ignore Him.  He can be quenched as any friend can be shut up if you turn on Him when He is in your home as a guest.  Of course, He will be hushed into hurt silence if you wound Him, and we can wound the Holy Spirit.

Oh, Lord, may I not quench the power of the Holy Spirit by neglect or by wounding.  Instead, help me to know His intimate fellowship.  Amen.