Aiden Wilson Tozer Religious Quotations

One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.

I say that a Christian congregation can survive and often appear to prosper in the community by the exercise of human talent and without any touch from the Holy Spirit! All that religious activity and the dear people will not know anything better until the great and terrible day when our self-employed talents are burned with fire and only that which was wrought by the Holy Ghost will stand forever!

It's hard to rest knowing that millions of people merely carry on religious traditions but don't actually reach God.

Pay no heed to the passing religious vogue. Go back to the grass roots. Open your hearts and search the Scriptures. Bear your cross, follow your Lord. The masses are always wrong. In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them.

Christians should be the boldest people in the world-not cocky and sure of ourselves, but sure of Him.

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

It is the Spirit of Christ in us that will draw satan's fire. The people of the world will not much care what we believe and they will stare vacantly at our religious forms, but there is one thing they will never forgive us-the presence of God's Spirit in our hearts. They may not know the cause of that strange feeling of antagonism which rises within them, but it will be nonetheless real and dangerous. satan will never cease to make war on the Man-child, and the soul in which dwells the Spirit of Christ will continue to be the target for his attacks.

Listen to no man who has not listened to God.

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

No one need fear to listen to the voice of God unless he has already made up his mind to resist it.

Be thankful, but be careful that you don't become so enamored of God's good gifts that you fail to worship the giver.

If you want to be holy then you must give time to God and not just intend to.

An honest man is strange when he is among dishonest men, but it is a good kind of strangeness.

Yes, I believe you can be right with God and still not like the way some people behave. Our admonition is to love them in a larger and more comprehensive way because we are all one in Christ Jesus. This kind of love is indeed a Christian virtue!

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

Our religious activities should be ordered in such a way as to have plenty of time for the cultivation of the fruits of solitude and silence.

The church has lost her testimony. She has no longer anything to say to the world. Her once robust shout of assurance has faded away to an apologetic whisper. She who one time went out to declare now goes out to inquire. Her dogmatic declaration has become a respectful suggestion, a word of religious advice, given with the understanding that it is after all only an opinion and not meant to sound bigoted. Pure Christianity, instead of being shaped by its culture, actually stands in sharp opposition to it.

If we would find God amid all the religious externals we must first determine to find Him, and then proceed in the way of simplicity. Now as always God discovers Himself to "babes" and hides Himself in thick darkness from the wise and the prudent. We must simplify our approach to Him. We must strip down to essentials (and they will be found to be blessedly few). We must put away all effort to impress, and come with the guileless candor of childhood. If we do this, without doubt God will quickly respond.

Religious externals may have meaning for the God-inhabited soul; for any others they are not only useless but may actually become snares, deceiving them into a false and perilous sense of security.

One of the greatest foes of the Christian is religious complacency.. Orthodox Christianity has fallen to its present low estate from lack of spiritual desire. Among the many who profess the Christian faith, scarcely one in a thousand reveals any passionate thirst for God.

Our mistake is that we want God to send revival on our terms. We want to get the power of God into our hands, to call it to us that it may work for us in promoting and furthering our kind of Christianity. We want still to be in charge, guiding the chariot through the religious sky in the direction we want it to go, shouting “Glory to God,” but modestly accepting a share of the glory for ourselves in a nice inoffensive sort of way. We are calling on God to send fire on our altars, completely ignoring the fact that they are OUR altars and not God’s....

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.

The essence of surrender is getting out of God's way so that He can do in us what He also wants to do through us.

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.

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

The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.

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

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

Any spirit that permits compromise with the world is a false spirit. Any religious movement that imitates the world in any of its manifestations is false to the cross of Christ and on the side of the devil.

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

The Church can't be a religious theater where paid men perform for the religious amusement of the people who pay them.

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.

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

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.

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

We are in an age of religious complexity. The simplicity which is in Christ is rarely found among us. In its stead are programs, methods, organizations, and a world of nervous activities which occupy time and attention but can never satisfy the longing of the heart.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Don't allow false modesty,doubts or unbelief prevent you from accepting God's favor. The door of mercy stands wide open.

We must do worldly jobs, but if we do them with sanctified minds, they become offerings to God.

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

When God brings all things to light, you will discover just how significant you've been in God's plan.