Top 896 Quotes & Sayings by Aiden Wilson Tozer - Page 2

Most Christians don't hear God's voice because we've already decided we aren't going to do what He says.

When men no longer fear God, they transgress His laws without hesitation. The fear of consequences is no deterrent when the fear of God is gone.

We should discipline ourselves to read the Word until it comes alive...until we can almost feel the breath of God.

Some people's lives would drastically change if they would obey God as strictly as they obey their doctors.

Worshipers never leave church...we carry our sanctuary with us wherever we go.

If your life does not worship God, your lips do not worship God either.

A scared world needs a fearless church.

The heart that knows God can find God anywhere.

To be entirely safe from the devil's snares the man of God must be completely obedient to the Word of the Lord. The driver on the highway is safe, not when he reads the signs but when he obeys them.

In many churches Christianity has been watered down until the solution is so weak that if it were poison it would not hurt anyone, and if it were medicine it would not cure anyone!

The best preparation for worship is not a rehearsal, but surrender.

Christian liberty is freedom from sin, not freedom to sin.

The glory of God always comes at the sacrifice of self.

God never uses anyone greatly until He tests them deeply.

As long as we think we own anything, that thing owns us. As soon as we know that we own nothing, then God owns us.

You can delegate many things, but prayer is not one of them.

I believe in Christian charity, but I don't believe in Christian tolerance... When we become so tolerate that we lead people into mental fog and spiritual darkness, we are not acting like Christians; we are acting like cowards!

Be hard on yourself and easy on others. Carry your own cross but never lay one on the back of another

The man who has made God his dwelling place will always have a safe habitation.

True obedience is the refusal to compromise in any regard our relationship with God, regardless of the consequences.

If you will not worship God seven days a week, you do not worship Him one day a week.

Compare yourself only with Jesus.

God doesn't work through us because we're flawless; rather, He works through us in spite of our imperfections.

We're here to be worshipers first and workers only second. We take a convert and immediately make a worker out of him. God never meant it to be so. God meant that a convert should learn to be a worshiper, and after that he can learn to be a worker...The work done by a worshiper will have eternity in it.

Faith is a re-directing of our sight, a getting out of the focus of our own vision and getting God into focus.

God may allow His servant to succeed when He has disciplined him to a point where he does not need to succeed to be happy. The man who is elated by success and is cast down by failure is still a carnal man. At best his fruit will have a worm in it.

If God gives you a few more years, remember, it is not yours. Your time must honor God, your home must honor God, your activity must honor God, and everything you do must honor God.

The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary both to the Scriptures and to common sense. How horrible to contemplate a church full of persons who have been pardoned but who still love sin and hate the ways of righteousness. And how much more horrible to think of heaven as filled with sinners who had not repented nor changed their way of living.

God is looking for those with whom He can do the impossible - what a pity that we plan only the things that we can do by ourselves.

Listen to no man who has not listened to God.

Faith in God is to be demonstrated, not defined.

One compromise here, another there and soon enough the so-called Christian and the man in the world look the same.

Did you ever stop to think that God is going to be as pleased to have you with Him in Heaven as you are to be there?

The Christian woman should remember that she cannot buy true attractiveness; that radiance which really shines forth in beauty is of the heart and spirit and not of the body.

We wonder why we don't have faith; the answer is, faith is confidence in the character of God and if we don't know what kind of God God is, we can't have faith.

As God is exalted to the right place in our lives, a thousand problems are solved all at once.

God's plan will continue on God's schedule.

God must do everything for us. Our part is to yield and trust

God wants us to know that when we have Him, we have everything.

Worship is no longer worship when it reflects the culture around us more than the Christ within us.

My aim each day is to adore God more than anything else.

God takes that which is nothing and makes something out of it. When you become a Christian, you cannot patch your Christianity onto your old life. You are to start over. Accept God's call as a promotion. Burn the old bridges and fix it so you cannot go back ; then serve God with all your heart.

When God brings all things to light, you will discover just how significant you've been in God's plan.

There is a strain of loneliness infecting many Christians, which only the presence of God can cure.

As long as Christ sits on the throne, every day is a good day and all days are days of salvation.

We can seek God and find him! God is knowable, touchable, hearable, seeable, with the mind, the hands, the ears and the eyes of the inner man.

To men and women everywhere Jesus says, "Come unto me, and I will give you rest." The rest He offers is the rest of meekness, the blessed relief which comes when we accept ourselves for what we are and cease to pretend.

God purposed redemption in Christ Jesus before the world began, and His plan does not need any editing by man.

The devil loves it when we say we believe then prioritize everything in our lives ahead of God.

Religion can reform a person’s life, but it can never transform him. Only the Holy Spirit can transform!

When we allow God to be exalted in our difficulties we are in the perfect place to smell the fragrance of His Presence.

Trying to be happy without a sense of God’s presence is like trying to have a bright day without the sun.

We operate by faith, which means that we have confidence in what God says, whether we fully understand it or not

The driver on the highway is safe not when He reads the signs, but when He obeys them.

Nothing bothers the devil more than a Christian delighting in God’s presence.

To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men. This is such a common truth that one hesitates to mention it, yet it appears to have been overlooked by the majority of Christians today.

Jesus Christ never thinks about what we have been! He always thinks about what we are going to be.

The true follower of Christ will not ask, "If I embrace this truth, what will it cost me?" Rather he will say, "This is truth. God help me to walk in it, let come what may!"

I don't want the world to define God for me. I want the Holy Spirit to reveal God to me.

The man who preaches truth and applies it to the lives of his hearers will feel the nails and the thorns. He will lead a hard life, but a glorious one. May God raise up many such prophets. The church needs them badly.