“Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD. For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.” [Jeremiah 2:12-13]

“In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)” [John 7:37-39]

“For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.” [Revelation 7:17]

“You can do without food a long time. But you can't go without drinking. Eighty percent of your body's made of water. The first thing God ever moved on, the Spirit of God ever moved on was the waters. And you can't go without water. And if your soul is hungering to worship... Listen, mister, Pentecost, and Pilgrim Holiness, and Presbyterian, Baptist, whoever you are (See?), if you're hungering and you're thirsting, satisfy your thirst with Christ. And make Christ your God. Don't turn around and drink from these old stagnated cisterns. The first thing you know, you may act ever so religious, but your ears are sealed to the truth. And do you remember, they would be so close till it deceive the very elect? And to reject the Gospel is to be sealed with the mark of the beast. God marks you. And now, what does it mean it was in? In your head. Your ear's on your head too. What is it? Your head is your knowledge. Faith cometh by hearing, hearing not some church rule, but the Word of God.” [56-0715 The Mark Of The Beast, Jeffersonville IN]

“Man wants his way of doing it, and God has got His way of doing it. And He said, "You are holding to your way, a broken cistern; and won't accept My way, the way of Life." And that's the same thing as it is today. It just hasn't varied a bit. Think how foolish of a man leaving an artesian well of pure clean water bubbling up, and then he want to go to a broken cistern that he made himself, and dig him out a cistern, with that trash that's up on top of the barn washing into it, then drink from that. There certainly is something mentally wrong with that person.” [65-0123 Broken Cisterns, Phoenix AZ]

“Now I want you to notice the difference between a cistern and a fountain of living water; artesian well, and an old broken cistern out there full of bugs, lizards, frogs, germs, whatmore, see. And here is an artesian well. Now watch this. It's self-supporting. You don't have to get any big systems and bring a lot of money into it. You don't have to join a lot of members. It supports its members, of the Spirit of Life in them, functioning. Notice the water that comes from it, fresh, pure and clean. Not a cistern, something stagnated that's been in-documented by forty, fifty different minds, saying, "This is right, and that's right, and this conception," and vote and call on, and as they do, and then make a denomination out of it. It's pure and clean, unadulterated Word of God, coming from the hand of God. It's a real artesian well. Notice, the secret of its power is within itself. Man cannot find it. Some kind of a pressure, beneath it, that's making it push up.” [65-0123 Broken Cisterns, Phoenix AZ]

“Now Satan takes these things, as I said, and perverts them. Then if you're--if you're... If you won't give that thirst the right place in your life, and won't thirst and take the things that God provided to stop that thirst with, to quench it, then Satan will lead you to some of his stagnant cesspools of this world. You must have it somewhere. If you can't find food, you'd eat from a garbage can. See? And if you--if you couldn't find water, and you was dying, you'd drink out of a--a pool of any kind, because you are perishing. But there is no reason for that, when you're thirsting for God, because God is a living God, not some historical something. "My soul thirsts for Thee, the living God," Something that gives living waters, Something that satisfies.” [65-0919 Thirst, Tucson AZ]

“But the only way you can have Life is to take that thirst and satisfy it by the drinking at the Fountain that never runs dry, that beautiful Holy Spirit that rains from God out of heaven. That's the way you find Life is to know Him; not know His Book, but to know Him; not to know your church, but to know Him; not to thirst to satisfy the pastor, but to satisfy the Lord. That's that holy thirst. That's what it's in you for. And would you quench that with things of the world. It's death. It's perverted. Did not the Bible say, "If you love the world or the things of the world, it's because of the love of God's not even in you."? That great holy thirst. You can't satisfy it by joining the church. There's no satisfaction in joining the church. You're trying to sear your conscience and fill your heart with lust. Come out in the open; confess your sins, and thirst for God's righteousness. "Because Thy lovekindness is better to me than life, my lips shall praise Thee." Think of it. “[57-0811A The Greatest Gift In The Bible, Edmonton AB]

“Until It fills every fiber, until the Holy Spirit Itself bubbling in you; I don't care whether the music is playing, whether they're playing Nearer, My God, To Thee, or whatever it is, the Holy Spirit is still ringing the glory bells in your heart. That satisfies. That's God's satisfying Portion. Anything less that That, you're done. You might speak with tongue like men and Angels, you might give all your goods to feed the poor, you might prophesy, and you might have knowledge, understand all the mysteries and all these things, and you still become nothing (I Corinthians 13) until that satisfying Something that can only quench that thirst. "My soul thirsts for the living God, like the hart panting for the water brook. Unless I can find It, I'll perish." When you get to hungering for God like that, something is going to take place. The Holy Spirit is to lead you to those great fountains of God.” [65-0919 Thirst Tucson AZ]

“And if you're thirsting this morning, drink from It, that's all you have to do. God had provided a way for their thirst, the thirsty children to partake freely of Himself. And God has provided a way for every man and woman this morning, who is hungering and thirsts. Perhaps there is people sitting here, have never been saved. There is people sitting here who is on the verge of being saved. There is people here, sitting here as church members, you want to do right, but you're drinking from a tank. They will never tell you these Truths. The only thing, to come, is take the promise of God and come to that Fountain, then He will quench the thirst. "He that drinks from this Fountain shall never thirst again."” [65-0123 Broken Cisterns, Phoenix AZ]