Quotes by Religious The only Christian you want to listen to is the one who gives you more of a hunger for God. Aiden Wilson Tozer religious christian god 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. Aiden Wilson Tozer religious christian philosophy I don't want the world to define God for me. I want the Holy Spirit to reveal God to me. Aiden Wilson Tozer religious christian god How utterly terrible is the current idea that Christians can serve God at their own convenience. Aiden Wilson Tozer religious christian god If you never mention the Lord in conversation with each other,isn't that proof that you aren't so concerned about Him? Aiden Wilson Tozer religious christian god Some people's lives would drastically change if they would obey God as strictly as they obey their doctors. Aiden Wilson Tozer religious christian god The victorious Christian neither exalts nor downgrades himself. His interests have shifted from self to Christ. Aiden Wilson Tozer religious christian god We can be in our day what the heroes of faith were in their day - but remember at the time they didn't know they were heroes. Aiden Wilson Tozer religious christian faith 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. Aiden Wilson Tozer devil religious religion 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. Aiden Wilson Tozer religious christian jesus One compromise here, another there and soon enough the so-called Christian and the man in the world look the same. Aiden Wilson Tozer religious christian god 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. Aiden Wilson Tozer religious book thinking 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. Aiden Wilson Tozer religious christian 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. Aiden Wilson Tozer nice religious mistake The cross stands high above the opinions of men and to that cross all opinions must come at last for judgment. Aiden Wilson Tozer lasts religious men 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. Aiden Wilson Tozer organization religious heart We go astray when we think that we can do spiritual work without spiritual power. Aiden Wilson Tozer religious spiritual god No one will make progress with God until our eyes are lifted to the faithfulness of God and we stop looking at ourselves! Aiden Wilson Tozer religious christian god We must like Moses cover ourselves with faith and humility while we steal a quick look at the God whom no man can see and live. The broken and the contrite heart He will not despise. We must hide our unholiness in the wounds of Christ as Moses hid himself in the cleft of the rock while the glory of God passed by. We must take refuge from God in God. Aiden Wilson Tozer religious god jesus If Jesus Christ isn't the central figure in our lives and in our churches, we're only fooling ourselves. Aiden Wilson Tozer religious christian god «56789101112131415»