Quotes by Self The glory of God always comes at the sacrifice of self. Aiden Wilson Tozer sacrifice glory self God wants us to worship Him. He doesn't need us, for He couldn't be a self-sufficient God and need anything or anybody, but He wants us. When Adam sinned it was not he who cried, 'God, where art Thou?' It was God who cried, 'Adam, where art thou?' Aiden Wilson Tozer self art needs Any objection to the carryings on of our present gold-calf Christianity is met with the triumphant reply, ‘But we are winning them!’ Winning them to what? To true discipleship? To cross-carrying? To self-denial? To separation from the world? To crucifixion of the flesh? To holy living? To hard self-discipline ? To love for God? To total committal to Christ? Of course the answer to all these questions is...No. Aiden Wilson Tozer discipline self winning For the Christian, humility is absolutely indispensable. Without it there can be no self-knowledge, no repentance, no faith and no salvation. Aiden Wilson Tozer humility self christian Of all forms of deception self-deception is the most deadly, and of all deceived persons the self-deceived are the least likely to discover the fraud. Aiden Wilson Tozer deception form self Self is the opaque veil that hides the Face of God from us. It can be removed only in spiritual experience, never by mere instruction. Aiden Wilson Tozer atheist self spiritual 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. Aiden Wilson Tozer circles self christian Rules for Self Discovery: 1. What we want most; 2. What we think about most; 3. How we use our money; 4. What we do with our leisure time; 5. The company we enjoy; 6. Who and what we admire; 7. What we laugh at. Aiden Wilson Tozer self discovery thinking Until self-effacing men return again to spiritual leadership, we may expect a progressive deterioration in the quality of popular Christianity year after year till we reach the point where the grieved Holy Spirit withdraws - like the Shekinah from the temple. Aiden Wilson Tozer self spiritual men Self is the opaque veil that hides the face of God from us. Aiden Wilson Tozer opaque veils self Fundamentalism has stood aloof from the liberal in self-conscious superiority and has on its own part fallen into error, the error of textualism, which is simply orthodoxy without the Holy Ghost. Everywhere among conservatives we find persons who are Bible-taught but not Spirit-taught. They conceive truth to be something which they can grasp with the mind. Aiden Wilson Tozer errors self mind 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. Aiden Wilson Tozer self christian hands Promoting self under the guise of promoting Christ is currently so common as to excite little notice. Aiden Wilson Tozer self common littles Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God. Aiden Wilson Tozer power self helping The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed. Aiden Wilson Tozer heavy self love-is In Christ and by Christ, God effects complete self-disclosure , although He shows Himself not to reason but to faith and love. Faith is an organ of knowledge, and love an organ of experience. God came to us in the incarnation; in atonement He reconciled us to Himself, and by faith and love we enter and lay hold on Him. Aiden Wilson Tozer atonement and-love self Hardly anything else reveals so well the fear and uncertainty among men as the length to which they will go to hide their true selves from each other and even from their own eyes. Aiden Wilson Tozer eye self men Our self-trust is such a subtle thing that it still comes around whispering to us even after we are sure it is gone. Aiden Wilson Tozer whispering self gone The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed. Think whether much of your sorrow has not arisen from someone speaking slightingly of you. As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal, how can you hope to find inward peace? Aiden Wilson Tozer self love-is thinking When the light at Vernon turned green, we stepped into the street and George grabbed my hand and the ghosts of our younger selves crossed with us. Aimee Bender light self hands «4567891011121314»