Aiden Wilson Tozer Christ Quotations [Page 2]

Problems patiently endured will work for our spiritual perfecting.

God loves you not because you are worthy, but because He is God and you are a fixture in His mind.

If the Holy Spirit was withdrawn from the church today, 95 percent of what we do would go on and no one would know the difference. If the Holy Spirit had been withdrawn from the New Testament church, 95 percent of what they did would stop, and everybody would know the difference.

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.

Nothing should so occupy the mind of the Christian than discovering God each day.

Much of our difficulty as seeking Christians stems from our unwillingness to take God as He is and adjust our lives accordingly. We insist upon trying to modify Him and bring Him nearer to our own image.

We now demand glamour and fast-flowing dramatic action. A generation of Christians reared among push buttons and automatic machines is impatient of slower and less direct methods of reaching their goals...The tragic results of this spirit all all about us: shallow lives, hollow religious philosophies...the glorification of men, trust is religious externalities....salesmanship methods, the mistaking of dynamic personality for the power of the Spirit. These and such of these are the symptoms of an evil disease.

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

We must never edit God.

In coming to Christ we don't bring our old life up to a higher plane; we leave it at the cross.

One thing the young Christian should be taught as quickly as possible after his conversion is that Jesus Christ is all he needs.

It is a high Christian privilege to pray for one another within each local church body and then for other believers throughout the world. As a Christian minister, I have no right to preach to people I have not prayed for. That is my strong conviction.

Many's very human habit of trusting in himself is generally the last great obstacle blocking his pathway to victory in Christian experience.

Most Christians would rather be happy than feel the wounds of other peoples' sorrows.

We modern Christians are long on talk and short on conduct.

Honesty that can be trusted and respected is a very fragrant flower in the life of a Christian.

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

It's time for us to rise up, get out of the rut and routine, and begin to take our Christian faith seriously.

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.

Too often we are Christians by assumption, manipulation or instruction, rather than Christians by regeneration.

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

As Christians, we are not to be people without feelings.

Christians aren't finished products. We're God's sons and daughters in process.

God's Kingdom isn't divided into areas of important people and areas of little people. In God's sight, everyone's needful.

The notion that the careless sinner is the smart fellow and the serious-minded Christian, though well-intentioned, is a stupid dolt altogether out of touch with life will not stand up under scrutiny. Sin is basically an act of moral folly, and the greater the folly the greater the fool.

Christ dazzles me and stirs within me such feelings of amazement that I can never get over Him.

No one will make progress with God until our eyes are lifted to the faithfulness of God and we stop looking at ourselves!

The low view of God entertained almost universally among Christians is the cause of a hundred lesser evils everywhere among us. A whole new philosophy of the Christian life has resulted from this one basic error in our religious thinking.

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.

If Jesus Christ isn't the central figure in our lives and in our churches, we're only fooling ourselves.

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

When people sugarcoat Christianity, arrange it all nicely, they have, in effect, taken away the Cross.

Tens of thousands, perhaps millions, have come into some kind of religious experience by accepting Christ, and they have not been saved.

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

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

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.

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.

Genuine Christian experience must always include an encounter with God Himself.

I want to be a more serious-minded Christian, more detached from this world, more ready for heaven than I have ever been in my whole life. I want an ear that is sharp to know the voice of the enemy, whether it comes from religion, politics, or philosophy ... I would rather stand and have everybody my enemy than to go along with the crowd to destruction. Do you feel that way?

We must face the fact that many today are notoriously careless in their living. This attitude finds its way into the church. We have liberty, we have money, we live in comparative luxury. As a result, discipline has disappeared. What would a violin solo sound like if the strings on the musician's instrument were all hanging loose, not stretched tight, not disciplined?

Christians must understand most emphatically that the world around us is in conflict with the Word within us.

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

The purpose of God isn't to save us from Hell. The purpose of God is to make us like Christ.

I can safely say, on the authority of all that is revealed in the Word of God, that any man or woman on this earth who is bored and turned off by worship is not ready for heaven.

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

Unsaintly saints are the tragedy of Christianity.

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.

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

If we can trust the sufferings of Christ for our sake then we can trust Christ when we suffer for His sake.

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.

The Lordship of Jesus Christ is not quite forgotten among Christians, but it has been relegated to the hymnal where all responsibility toward it may be comfortably discharged in a glow of religious emotion. Or if it is taught as a theory in the classroom it is rarely applied to practical living. The idea that the Man Christ Jesus has absolute final authority over the whole church and over its members in every detail of their lives is simply not now accepted as true by the rank and file of evangelical Christians.

In Him (God), history and prophecy are one and the same.

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

The basic trouble with the church today is her unworthy concept of God... Our religion is weak because our God is weak... Christianity at any given time is strong or weak depending on her concept 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.

How utterly terrible is the current idea that Christians can serve God at their own convenience.

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.

For millions of Christians, nevertheless, God is no more real than He is to the non-Christian. They go through life trying to love an ideal and be loyal to a mere principle.

Let the seeking man reach a place where life and lips join to say continually, "Be thou exalted," and a thousand minor problems will be solved at once. His Christian life ceases to be the complicated thing it had been before and becomes the very essence of simplicity.

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

If you never mention the Lord in conversation with each other,isn't that proof that you aren't so concerned about Him?

May God deliver us from the easygoing, smooth, comfortable Christianity that never lets the truth get hold of us.

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

The idea that the Man Christ Jesus has absolute and final authority over the whole church and over all of its members in every detail of their lives is simply not now accepted as true by the rank and file of evangelical Christians

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

I think that most Christians would be better pleased if the Lord did not inquire into their personal affairs too closely. They want Him to save them, to keep them happy, and to take them off to heaven at last, but not to be too inquisitive about their conduct or services.

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.

I am a Bible Christian and if an archangel with a wingspread as broad as a constellation shining like the sun were to come and offer me some new truth, I'd ask him for a reference. If he could not show me where it is found in the Bible, I would bow him out and say, I'm awfully sorry, you don't bring any references with you

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

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

So, it becomes the devil's business to keep the Christian's spirit imprisoned. He knows that the believing and justified Christian has been raised up out of the grave of his sins. From that point on, Satan works that much harder to keep us bound and gagged, in our own grave clothes. He knows that if we continue in this kind of bondage...we are not much better off than when we were spiritually dead.

You will never be more than a common Christian until you give up your own interest and cease defending yourself.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

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

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

The true Christian is one who is kind of sick of this world. If I find anybody who is settled down too snugly into this world, I am made to doubt whether he's ever truly been born again

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

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

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

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.

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

Christian theology teaches the doctrine of prevenient grace, which briefly stated means this, that before a man can seek God, God must first have sought the man.

The average Christian is so cold and so contented with His wretched condition that there is no vacuum of desire into which the blessed Spirit can rush in satisfying fullness.

If we cooperate with Him in loving obedience, God will manifest Himself to us, and that manifestation will be the difference between a nominal Christian life and a life radiant with the light of His face.

There are two classes of Christians: the proud who imagine they are humble and the humble who are afraid they are proud. There should be another class: the self-forgetful who leave the whole thing in the hands of Christ and refuse to waste any time trying to make themselves good. They will reach the goal far ahead of the rest.

Breezy, self-confident Christians tell us how wonderful it is to accept Christ and then have a good time all the rest of your life; the Lord won't demand anything of you. Yes, He will, my friend! The Lord will demand everything of you. And when you give it all up to Him, He may bless it and hand it back, but on the other hand He may not....

If you have believed but not obeyed, you have postponed your Christian life.

Pure Christianity, instead of being shaped by its environment, actually stands in sharp opposition to it.