Any manipulation of the Scriptures to make them speak peace Aiden Wilson Tozer More Quotes by Aiden Wilson Tozer More Quotes From Aiden Wilson Tozer No one can know truth except the one who obeys truth. You think you know truth. People memorize the Scriptures by the yard, but that is not a guarantee of knowing the truth. Truth is not a text. Truth is in the text, but it takes the text plus the Holy Spirit to bring truth to a human soul. Aiden Wilson Tozer knowingpeoplethinking What then are we to do about our problems? We must learn to live with them until such time as God delivers us from them...we must pray for grace to endure them without murmuring. Problems patiently endured will work for our spiritual perfecting. They harm us only when we resist them or endure them unwillingly. Aiden Wilson Tozer gracespiritualwaiting 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. Aiden Wilson Tozer majoritychristianmen The man who would truly know God must give time to Him. Aiden Wilson Tozer christiangodtime God's gifts are many; His best gift is one. It is the gift of Himself. Aiden Wilson Tozer best-gift Holiness, as taught in the Scriptures, is not based upon knowledge on our part. Rather, it is based upon the resurrected Christ in-dwelling us and changing us into His likeness. Aiden Wilson Tozer holinessscripturedwelling We who preach the gospel must not think of ourselves as public relations agents sent to establish good will between Christ and the world. We must not imagine ourselves commissioned to make Christ acceptable to big business, the press, the world of sports or modern education. We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum. Aiden Wilson Tozer agentssportsthinking I don't want the world to define God for me. I want the Holy Spirit to reveal God to me. Aiden Wilson Tozer religiouschristiangod God is never impressed with what a man can do. He is more concerned with what a man is. Aiden Wilson Tozer concernedcan-domen The true follower of Christ will not ask, "If I embrace this truth, what will it cost me?" Rather he will say, "This is truth. God help me to walk in it, let come what may!" Aiden Wilson Tozer costfollowersmay We please God most, not by frantically trying to make ourselves good, but by throwing ourselves into His arms. Aiden Wilson Tozer throwingarmstrying The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary both to the Scriptures and to common sense. How horrible to contemplate a church full of persons who have been pardoned but who still love sin and hate the ways of righteousness. And how much more horrible to think of heaven as filled with sinners who had not repented nor changed their way of living. Aiden Wilson Tozer hateideasthinking Trying to be happy without a sense of God’s presence is like trying to have a bright day without the sun. Aiden Wilson Tozer bright-dayssuntrying It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until he has hurt him deeply." God actually rises up storms of conflict in relationships at times in order to accomplish that deeper work in our character. We cannot love our enemies in our own strength. This is graduate-level grace. Are you willing to enter this school? Are you willing to take the test? If you pass, you can expect to be elevated to a new level in the Kingdom. For He brings us through these tests as preparation for greater use in the Kingdom. You must pass the test first. Aiden Wilson Tozer hurtcharacterschool 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. Aiden Wilson Tozer bridgeschristianheart True and absolute freedom is only found in the presence of God. Aiden Wilson Tozer absolute-freedompresence-of-godfound Holiness has nothing to do with what we know and everything to do with Who we know. Aiden Wilson Tozer holinessknows How utterly terrible is the current idea that Christians can serve God at their own convenience. Aiden Wilson Tozer religiouschristiangod The widest thing in the universe is not space; it is the Aiden Wilson Tozer spacetragedyheart It's not my business to try and make God think like me... but to try, in prayer and penitence, to think like God. Aiden Wilson Tozer prayerchristianthinking
