Top 896 Quotes & Sayings by Aiden Wilson Tozer - Page 3

Nothing in or of this world measures up to the simple pleasure of experiencing the presence of God.

We pursue God because, and only because, He has first put an urge within us that spurs us to the pursuit.

If you would follow on to know the Lord, come at once to the open Bible expecting it to speak to you. Do not come with the notion that it is a thing which you may push around at your convenience. It is more than a thing, it is a voice, a word, the very Word of the living God.

Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free. If we understand our first and sole duty to consist of loving God supremely and loving everyone, even our enemies, for God's dear sake, then we can enjoy spiritual tranquility under every circumstance.

Any objection to the carryings on of our present gold-calf Christianity is met with the triumphant reply, ‘But we are winning them!’ Winning them to what? To true discipleship? To cross-carrying? To self-denial? To separation from the world? To crucifixion of the flesh? To holy living? To hard self-discipline ? To love for God? To total committal to Christ? Of course the answer to all these questions is...No.

Religion today is not transforming people; rather it is being transformed by the people. It is not raising the moral level of society; it is descending to society's own level, and congratulating itself that it has scored a victory because society is smilingly accepting its surrender.

What we need very badly these days is a company of Christians who are prepared to trust God as completely now as they know they must do at the last day... It would be better to invite God now to remove every false trust, to disengage our hearts from all secret hiding places and to bring us out into the open where we can discover for ourselves whether or not we actually trust Him. That is a harsh cure for our troubles, but it is a sure one. Gentler cures may be too weak to do the work. And time is running out on us.

There is a restlessness within us that cannot be satisfied until we rest fully in God.

To know that God thinks about me is the beginning of my journey of faith.

The meek man is not a human mouse afflicted with a sense of his own inferiority. He has accepted God's estimate of his own life: In himself, nothing; In God, everything. He knows well that the world will never see him as God sees him and he has stopped caring.

Faith is not a once-done act, but a continuous gaze of the heart at the Triune God. Believing, then, is directing the hearts' attention to Jesus. It is lifting the mind to 'behold the Lamb of God,' and never ceasing that beholding for the rest of our lives.

The church that can't worship must be entertained. And leaders who can't lead a church to worship must provide the entertainment.

God is never impressed with what a man can do. He is more concerned with what a man is.

Those who seek the deeper Christian life and those who want the riches that are in Christ Jesus the Lord seek no place, no wealth, no things, only Christ.

If I empty out half of my life, God can only fill half...God will fill as much of us as we allow Him to fill.

The idea that this world is a playground instead of a battleground has now been accepted in practice by the vast majority of Christians.

Faith is seeing the invisible, but not the nonexistent.

Our Lord told His disciples that love and obedience were organically united. The final test of love is obedience.

We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity. Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. The need for solitude and quietness was never greater than it is today.

I claim the holy right to disappoint men in order to avoid disappointing God.

You have been forgiven, so act like it!

Religion has accepted the monstrous heresy that noise, size, activity and bluster make a man dear to God.

A pharisee is hard on others and easy on himself, but a spiritual man is easy on others and hard on himself.

The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God, that they may enter into Him, that they may delight in His Presence, may taste and know the inner sweetness of the very God Himself in the core and center of their hearts.

To pray without expectation is to misunderstand the whole concept of prayer and relationship with God.

The man that believes will obey; failure to obey is convincing proof that there is no true faith present. To attempt the impossible God must give faith or there will be none, and He gives faith to the obedient heart only.

Dare to contend without being contentious. Preserve the truth without hurting people. Love and be charitable.

This is what you are here for: to glorify God and enjoy Him thoroughly and forever, telling the universe how great God is.

God desires to reveal to us that His capacity to forgive is bigger than our capacity to sin.

God sees us perfect in His Son while He disciplines and chastens and purges us that we may be partakers of His holiness.

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casteth out fear. Fear is a painful emotion that arises at the thought that we may be harmed or made to suffer. As long as we must trust for survival to our ability to out look or out maneuver the enemy, we have every good reason to be afraid. Fear is torment. To know that love is of God and to enter into the secret place leaning upon the arm of the Beloved, this and only this can cast out fear.

An honest man with an open Bible and a pad and pencil is sure to find out what is wrong with him very quickly.

O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need for further grace. I am ashamed of my lack of desire. O God, the Triune God, I want to want Thee; I long to be filled with longing; I thirst to be made more thirsty still. Show me Thy glory, I pray Thee, so that I may know Thee indeed. Begin in mercy a new work of love within me. Say to my soul, ‘Rise up my love, my fair one, and come away.’ Then give me grace to rise and follow Thee up from this misty lowland where I have wandered so long.

It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until he has hurt him deeply." God actually rises up storms of conflict in relationships at times in order to accomplish that deeper work in our character. We cannot love our enemies in our own strength. This is graduate-level grace. Are you willing to enter this school? Are you willing to take the test? If you pass, you can expect to be elevated to a new level in the Kingdom. For He brings us through these tests as preparation for greater use in the Kingdom. You must pass the test first.

Spiritual Christians look upon the world not as a playground but as a battleground.

Holiness has nothing to do with what we know and everything to do with Who we know.

The Christian is a holy rebel loose in the world with access to the throne of God.

Come near to the holy men and women of the past and you will soon feel the heat of their desire after God. They mourned for Him, they prayed and wrestled and sought for Him day and night, in season and out, and when they found Him, the finding was all the sweeter for the long seeking.

The man who is seriously convinced that he deserves hell is not likely to go there, while the man who believes that he is worthy of heaven will certainly never enter that blessed place.

Coming before God in quietness & waiting upon Him in silence often can accomplish more than days of feverish activity.

Show me the condition of your Bible and I will accurately gauge the condition of your soul.

When we have the Holy Spirit we have all that is needed to be all that God desires us to be.

Our problem is that we go from toy to toy rather than from glory to glory.

Walking in humility isn't focusing on what we are NOT; rather, it's declaring what God is.

In the Bible, the race of life is never considered from the viewpoint of speed... We are to run it with patience.

For the Christian, humility is absolutely indispensable. Without it there can be no self-knowledge, no repentance, no faith and no salvation.

What is wrong with Christians today is that we have the gifts of God but have forgotten the God of the gifts.

God dwells in eternity but time dwells in God. He has already lived all our tomorrows as He has lived all our yesterdays.

His words are the essence of truth...Jesus never uttered opinions. He never guessed; He knew, and He knows.

The KEY to disciplining ourselves in the area of obedience is always keeping in mind to whom we are being obedient.

Why do some persons 'find' God in a way that others do not? Why does God manifest His Presence to some and let multitudes of others struggle along in the half-light of imperfect Christian experience? Of course the will of God is the same for all. He has no favorites within His household. All He has ever done for any of His children He will do for all of His children. The difference lies not with God but with us.

God often hides His blessing in trouble or trial, which makes it all the sweeter when it comes our way.

I do not know why God does some things, but I am convinced that nothing is accidental in his universe.

It will cost you everything to follow the Lord. And it will cost you even more to be His man for this hour.

When Jesus died on the cross the mercy of God did not become any greater. It could not become any greater, for it was already infinite. We get the odd notion that God is showing mercy because Jesus died. No--Jesus died because God is showing mercy. It was the mercy of God that gave us Calvary, not Calvary that gave us mercy. If God had not been merciful there would have been no incarnation, no babe in the manger, no man on a cross and no open tomb.

Whenever you see confusion, you can be sure that something is wrong. Disorder in the world implies that something is out of place. Usually, at the heart of all disorder you will find man in rebellion against God. It began in the Garden of Eden and continues to this day.

And what kind of habitation pleases God? What must our natures be like before he can feel at home within us? He asks nothing but a pure heart and a single mind. He asks no rich paneling, no rugs from the Orient, no art treasures from afar. He desires but sincerity, transparency, humility, and love. He will see to the rest.

Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits on the undeserving.

In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them.

Many Christians are satisfied with their destination but they neglect the journey.