Aiden Wilson Tozer (April 21, 1897 – May 12, 1963) was an American Christian pastor, author, magazine editor, and spiritual mentor. For his work, he received two honorary doctoral degrees.
The abuse of a harmless thing is the essence of sin.
To admit the existence of a need in God is to admit incompleteness in the divine Being. Need is a creature-word and cannot be spoken of the Creator. God has a voluntary relationg to everything He has made, but He has no Necessary relation to anything outside of Himself. His interest in His creatures arises from His sovereign good pleasure, not from any need those creatures can supply nor from any completeness they can dring to Him who is complete in himself.
Any nation which for an extended period puts pleasure before liberty is likely to lose the liberty it misused.
One of the most popular current errors, and the one out of which springs most of the noisy, blustering religious activity in evangelical circles, is the notion that as times change the church must change with them.
Worship is why we are born and why we are born again.
If God is the Supreme good then our highest blessedness on earth must lie in knowing Him as perfectly as possible.
The poor quality of Christian that grows out of our modern evangelistic meeting may be accounted for by the absence of real repentance accompanying the initial spiritual experience of the converts. And the absence of repentance is the result of an inadequate view of sin and sinfulness held by those who present themselves in the inquiry room.
He fills heaven and earth as the ocean fills the bucket that is submerged in it, and as the ocean surrounds the bucket so does God in the universe He fills. "The heaven of heavens cannot contain Thee. " God is not contained: He contains.
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.
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.
I do not know why God does some things, but I am convinced that nothing is accidental in his universe.
If [something] is of God, your dependence upon God will increase.
Nothing that God has ever said about Himself will be modified; nothing the inspired prophets and apostles have said about Him will be rescinded. His immutability guarantees this.
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.
It is no sin to doubt some things but it may be fatal to believe everything.
We have been snared in the coils of a spurious logic which insists that if we have found Him we need no more seek Him.
Christian liberty is freedom from sin, not freedom to sin.
I can trust the One who has my best interest in mind.
The church that can't worship must be entertained. And leaders who can't lead a church to worship must provide the entertainment.
He (God) may sometimes chasten us, it is true, but even this He does with a smile, the proud, tender smile of a Father who is bursting with pleasure over an imperfect but promising son who is coming every day to look more and more like the One whose child he is.