Top 896 Quotes & Sayings by Aiden Wilson Tozer - Page 15

The church can have light only as it is full of the Spirit, and it can be full only as the members that compose it are filled individually.

Religion is interested primarily in the One who is the source of all things, the master of every phenomenon.

Next to the Holy Scriptures, the greatest aide to the life of faith may be Christian biographies.

Sermonettes make Christianettes.

When we become too glib in prayer we are most surely talking to ourselves.

Our self-trust is such a subtle thing that it still comes around whispering to us even after we are sure it is gone.

When we are enjoying the conscious presence of God, we are fulfilling the tenets of our salvation.

Man for all his genius is but an echo of the original Voice, a reflection of the uncreated Light.

Be thankful, but be careful that you don't become so enamored of God's good gifts that you fail to worship the giver.

A Christian expects to go to Heaven on the virtue of another.

If God takes away from us the old, wrinkled, beat-up dollar bill we have clutched so desperately, it is only because He wants to exchange it for the whole Federal mint, the entire treasury! He is saying to us, 'I have in store for you all the resources of heaven. Help yourself.'

Without doubt the emphasis in Christian teaching today should be on worship. There is little danger that we shall become merely worshipers and neglect the practical implications of the gospel. No one can long worship God in spirit and in truth before the obligation to holy service becomes too strong to resist. Fellowship with God leads straight to obedience and good works. That is the divine order and it can never be reversed.

We understand and acknowledge that the Resurrection has placed a glorious crown upon all of Christ's sufferings!

A satisfying prayer life elevates and purifies every act of body and mind and integrates the entire personality into a single spiritual unit. In the long pull we pray only as well as we live.

Quoting Scripture leads you to the fountain, but only if you plunge in and come up wet will I know that you are a Christian.

Men are not revived because they sing; they sing because they are revived.

The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them.

The faith of Christ offers no buttons to push for quick service. The new order must wait the Lord's own time, and that is too much for the man in a hurry. He just gives up and becomes interested in something else.

All the problems of heaven and earth, though they were to confront us together and at once, would be nothing compared with that overwhelming problem of God: That He is; what He is like; and what we as moral beings must do about Him.

He had everything, but he possessed nothing. There is the spiritual secret.

The history of mankind will probably show that no people has ever risen above its religion, and man's spiritual history will positively demonstrate that no religion has ever been greater than its idea of God.

God dwells in the heart where praise is.

We boast in the Lord but watch carefully that we never get caught depending on Him.

God and I; here is the beginning and the end of personal religion.

If the Lord's people were only half as eager to be filled with the Spirit as they are to prove that they cannot be filled, the church would be crowded out.

No one can long worship God in spirit and in truth before the obligation to holy service becomes too strong to resist.

Some morning, get up and allow the power of God to come on you, and allow Him to bless you.

As a sunbeam perishes when cut off from the sun, so man apart from God would pass back into the void of nothingness from which he first leaped at the creative call.

If I understand this correctly Christ taught here the alarming doctrine that the desire for honor among men made belief impossible.

Brother Lawrence expressed the highest moral wisdom when he testified that if he stumbled and fell he turned at once to God and said, 'O Lord, this is what you may expect of me if You leave me to myself.' He then accepted forgiveness, thanked God, and gave himself no further concerns about the matter.

Abounding sin is the terror of the world, but abounding grace is the hope of mankind.

What do we value most? What would we most hate to lose? What do our thoughts turn to most frequently when we are free to think of what we will? And finally, what affords us the greatest pleasure?

What we think about when we are free to think about what we will – that is what we are or will soon become.

What now does the divine immanence mean in direct Christian experience? It means simply that God is here. Wherever we are, God is here. Ther eis no place, there can be no place, where He is not.

Peace of heart that is won by refusing to bear the common yoke of human sympathy is a peace unworthy of a Christian. To seek tranquility by stopping our ears to the cries of human pain is to make ourselves not Christian but a kind of degenerate stoic having no relation either to stoicism or Christianity.

We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity.

The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed... The heart's fierce effort to protect itself from every slight, to shield its touchy honor from the bad opinion of friend and enemy, will never let the mind have rest.

What a blessed truth to understand that, in the middle of all of our difficulties and calamities, we have a refuge.

The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed.

When God justifies a sinner, everything in God is on the sinner's side. All the attributes of God are on the sinner's side. It isn't that mercy is pleading for the sinner and justice is trying to beat him to death. All of God does all that God does.

Satan hates God for His own sake, and everything that is dear to God he hates for the very reason that God loves it.

Such words as amen, hallelujah, glory and others of like sacred association are repeated endlessly and meaninglessly in the apparent belief that they have in them some strange power for good. This can be no more than high-grade magic. It will pay us to search our own hearts thoroughly to discover just why we use these words.

The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice/any choice will be the right one.

We cannot grasp the true meaning of the divine holiness by thinking of someone or something very pure and then raising the concept to the highest degree we are capable of. God's holiness is not simply the best we know infinitely bettered. We know nothing like the divine holiness. It stands apart, unique, unapproachable, incomprehensible and unattainable. The natural man is blind to it. He may fear God's power and admire His wisdom, but His holiness he cannot even imagine.

Men may flee from the sunlight to dark and musty caves of the earth, but they cannot put out the sun. So men may in any dispensation despise the grace of God, but they cannot extinguish it.

Acquaint thyself with God.

The scriptures are in print what Christ is in person.

Truth is a glorious but hard mistress. She never consults, bargains or compromises.

We who live in this nervous age would be wise to meditate on our lives and our days long and often before the face of God and on the edge of eternity. For we are made for eternity as certainly as we are made for time, and as responsible moral beings we must deal with both.

Heaven is beautiful because it is the expression of that which is the perfection of beauty.

Perfect love knows no because

It takes simplicity and humility to worship God acceptably.

A church can wither as surely under the ministry of soulless Bible exposition as it can where no Bible is given. To be effective the preacher's message must be alive; it must alarm, arouse, challenge; it must be God's present voice to a particular people. Then, and not till then, is it the prophetic word and the man himself a prophet.

The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him.

We must meet the uncertainties of this world with the certainty of the world to come.

No religion has ever been greater than its idea of God.