Now, if I come to you tonight…Listen closely. If I come to you tonight and said that I had the spirit of—of a criminal, John Dillinger, that John Dillinger’s spirit was upon me, you’d expect me to have big guns and be an outlaw like he was. If I had his spirit, that’s what I would do. You know, God never takes His Spirit from the earth? God takes His man, but never His Spirit. Do you know that? Say, ’fore He took Elijah, a double portion of Elijah’s spirit come upon Elisha. Is that right? And several hundred years later, He come out in John the Baptist. Is that right? And is predicted to come out again in the last day. Is that right? God takes His man, but not His Spirit. His Spirit remains here. When the Spirit’s gone, the Church is gone then. There’ll be no more salvation. No more care, mercy’s over then. The Spirit’s gone.

The Manifestation of the Spirit, 1951-07-17, Toledo, OH, §39