Aiden wilson tozer quotes

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.

May God grant us a desire for God that supersedes all other desires.

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

God's Word is true whether we believe it or not. Human unbelief cannot alter the character of God.

When we make a choice today, we are deciding who we will be tomorrow.

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.

We must of necessity be servant to someone, either to God or to sin. The man who surrenders to Christ exchanges a cruel slave driver for a kind and gentle master whose yoke is easy and whose burden is light.

God’s voice speaking tenderly to our hearts today is the same voice that powerfully called creation into being.

Before there can be fullness there must be emptiness. Before God can fill us with Himself we must first be emptied of ourselves.

It is dangerous to be so busy that you have no time to wait on God.

You can be straight as a gun barrel theologically, and as empty as one spiritually.

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

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

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.

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

The natural man must know in order to believe; The spiritual man must believe in order to know

The grace of God is infinite and beyond our ability to measure. His grace has no beginning and therefore no end.

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.

Compare yourself only with Jesus.

Faith is not a conclusion you reach...it's a journey you live.

You can't truly rest until every area in your life rests in God.

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

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.

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

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

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

In every Christian's Heart, there is a cross and a throne, and the Christian is on the throne till he puts himself on the cross; if he refuses the cross, he remains on the throne. Perhaps this is at the bottom of the backsliding and worldliness among Gospel believers today. We want to be saved, but we insist that Christ do all the dying. No cross for us, no dethronement, no dying. We remain king within the little kingdom of man's soul and wear our tinsel crown with all the pride of a caesar; but we doom ourselves to shadows and weakness and spiritual sterility.

I fear that for the most part people are worshiping worship rather than worshiping God and communing with Him.

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

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!

A whole new generation of Christians has come up believing that it is possible to 'accept' Christ without forsaking the world.

The goodness of God is infinitely more wonderful than we will ever be able to comprehend.

Until the Bible begins to talk to us, we really have not been reading it.

We go astray when we think that we can do spiritual work without spiritual power.

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

God is looking for men in whose hands His glory is safe.

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

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

Sometimes when we get overwhelmed we forget how big God is.

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

Regret for a sinful past will remain until we truly believe that for us in Christ that sinful past no longer exists.

Whatever keeps me from my Bible is my enemy, however harmless it may appear to be.

Each day presents a new opportunity to experience God's presence.

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

Christianity is hard when we try to serve God in man's way instead of serving God in God's way.

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

Listen to no man who has not listened to God.

The great test of faith is to wait on God. . . not expecting to push a button and get whatever we want now.

People who are crucified with Christ have three distinct marks: 1. they are facing only one direction, 2. they can never turn back, and 3. they no longer have plans of their own.

Whenever God begins something, we have the assurance that He will finish it. Nothing will stand in the way of Him accomplishing His purpose in this world and in our lives. What God starts, He finishes, and nobody can hinder Him. Sure, delays will happen. Just remember, God is in charge of the delays as well as the progress.

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

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 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!"

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

Retire from the world each day to some private spot. Stay in the secret place till the surrounding noises begin to fade out of your heart and a sense of God's presence envelops you. Deliberately tune out the unpleasant sounds and come out of your closet determined not to hear them. Listen for the inward voice till you learn to recognize it.

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

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

Rules for Self Discovery: 1. What we want most; 2. What we think about most; 3. How we use our money; 4. What we do with our leisure time; 5. The company we enjoy; 6. Who and what we admire; 7. What we laugh at.

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

The only Christian you want to listen to is the one who gives you more of a hunger for God.

It is astonishing, how many difficulties clear up without any effort when the inner life gets straightened out. If half the time we spend trying to fix up outward things were spent in getting our hearts right, we would be delighted with the result. Strange as it may seem, harmony within our hearts depends mostly upon our getting into harmony with God.

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

Outside of the will of god, there is nothing I want. And in the will of god there is nothing I fear.

The victorious Christian neither exalts nor downgrades himself. His interests have shifted from self to Christ.

The heart that knows God can find God anywhere.

We must never allow the majority to overrule the clear teaching of the Word of God.

A scared world needs a fearless church.

Anything God has ever done, he can do now. Anything God has ever done anywhere, he can do here. Anything God has ever done for anyone, he can do for you.

There is no limit to what God can do through us if we are a yielded and purified people.

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

Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.

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

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

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

God is trying to call us back to that for which He created us, to worship Him and to enjoy Him forever

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.

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.

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.

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

God will speak to the hearts of those who prepare themselves to hear; and conversely, those who do not so prepare themselves will hear nothing even though the Word of God is falling upon their outer ears every Sunday.

When I understand that everything happening to me is to make me more Christlike, it resolves a great deal of anxiety.

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

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

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

How unutterably sweet is the knowledge that our Heavenly Father knows us completely. No talebearer can inform on us; no enemy can make an accusation stick; no forgotten skeleton can come tumbling out of some hidden closet to abash us and expose out past; no unsuspected weakness in our characters can come to light to turn God away from us, since He knew us utterly before we knew him and called us to Himself in the full knowledge of everything that was against us.

A real Christian in an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every day to Someone he cannot see, expects to go to heaven on the virtue of Another, empties himself in order to be full, admits he is wrong so he can be declared right, goes down in order to get up, is strongest when he is weakest, richest when he is poorest, and happiest when he feels worst. He dies so he can live, forsakes in order to have, gives away so he can keep, sees the invisible, hears the inaudible, and knows that which passes knowledge.

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

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

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

If I am to wholly follow the Lord Jesus Christ, I must forsake everything that is contrary to Him.

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

If your Christianity depends upon a pastor's preaching, then you're a long way from being where you should be.

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

What then are we to do about our problems? We must learn to live with them until such time as God delivers us from them...we must pray for grace to endure them without murmuring. Problems patiently endured will work for our spiritual perfecting. They harm us only when we resist them or endure them unwillingly.

What's closest to your heart is what you talk about, and if God is close to your heart, you'll talk about Him.

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.

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

Jesus Christ knows the worst about you. Nonetheless, He is the one who loves you the most.

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

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

To understand a Bible text it takes an act of the Holy Spirit equal to the act that inspired the text in the first place. A revelation of the Holy Spirit in one glorious flash of inward illumination would teach you more of Jesus than five years in a theological seminary.

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

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

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.

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!

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.

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

No one can know truth except the one who obeys truth. You think you know truth. People memorize the Scriptures by the yard, but that is not a guarantee of knowing the truth. Truth is not a text. Truth is in the text, but it takes the text plus the Holy Spirit to bring truth to a human soul.

Deliverance can come to us only by the defeat of our old life. Safety and peace come only after we have been forced to our knees. God rescues us by breaking us, by shattering our strength and wiping out our resistance.

Any doctrine that makes the world your friend is not your friend.

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

To truly know God we must long for Him without any other motive than reaching God Himself.

The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.

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

The purpose of good works isn't to change us or save us; rather, it's the demonstration of the change within us.

God never uses anyone greatly until He tests them deeply.

If worship bores you, you are not ready for heaven.

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.

The weakness of so many modern Christians is that they feel too much at home in the world

We please God most, not by frantically trying to make ourselves good, but by throwing ourselves into His arms.

The true Christian ideal is not to be happy but to be holy.

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

God's gifts are many; His best gift is one. It is the gift of Himself.

There is no place to hide but in the blood of the Lamb.

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.