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.
If the envious, the defamers and the backbiters were taken out of the average church, there would be revival overnight.
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.
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not only a book which was once spoken, but a book which is now speaking.
The fact is that, we are not producing saints. We are making converts to an effete type of Christianity, that bears little resemblance to that of the New Testament. The average so-called Bible Christian of our times is but a shallow display of true sainthood. Yet, we put millions of dollars behind ‘movements’ to perpetuate this lower form of religion and attack the man who dares to challenge the wisdom of it.
The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the Church is famishing for want of His Presence.
In the Book of Acts faith was for each believer a beginning, not an end; it was a journey, not a bed in which to lie while waiting for the day of our Lord's triumph. Believing was not a once-done act; it was more than an act, it was an attitude of heart and mind which inspired and enabled the believer to take up his cross and follow the Lamb whithersoever He went.
An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children.
For the Christian, humility is absolutely indispensable. Without it there can be no self-knowledge, no repentance, no faith and no salvation.
Heaven is beautiful because it is the expression of that which is the perfection of beauty.
The driver on the highway is safe not when He reads the signs, but when He obeys them.
The pain of sacrificing our old selves is nothing compared to the joy of Christ living in us in our transformed lives.
The scriptures are in print what Christ is in person.
I accomplish more when I rest wholly in the labor of Jesus than I do when I frantically try to do the work for Him.
Secularism, materialism, and the intrusive presence of things have put out the light in our souls and turned us into a generation of zombies.
May not the inadequacy of much of our spiritual experience be traced back to our habit of skipping through the corridors of the Kingdom like children in the market place, chattering about everything, but pausing to learn the value of nothing.
I must be frank in my feeling that a notable heresy has come into being throughout our evangelical Christian circles -- the widely accepted concept that we humans can choose to accept Christ only because we need Him as Saviour and that we have the right to postpone our obedience to Him as Lord as long as we want to. . . The truth is that salvation apart from obedience is unknown in the sacred scripture. . . Apart from obedience, there can be no salvation, for salvation without obedience is a self-contradictory impossibility.
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.
The key to prayer is simply praying.
Christians don't tell lies they just go to church and sing them.
Leadership requires vision, and whence will vision come except from hours spent in the presence of God in humble and fervent prayer?