Everything God does has purpose and intention behind that design. It is a master design, and every little thing has its proper place and function. Aiden Wilson Tozer More Quotes by Aiden Wilson Tozer More Quotes From Aiden Wilson Tozer God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. The man who would know God must give time to Him. Aiden Wilson Tozer time giving men Any nation which for an extended period puts pleasure before liberty is likely to lose the liberty it misused. Aiden Wilson Tozer pleasure liberty periods Pure Christianity, instead of being shaped by its environment, actually stands in sharp opposition to it. Aiden Wilson Tozer opposition environment christianity All nature has come to expect from God a sense of orderliness. Whatever God does carries with it His fingerprint. And in the world around us His fingerprint of orderliness is evident to anybody who is honest with the facts. If you look at nature, you will discover a mathematical exactness. Without this precision, the entire world would be in utter confusion. One plus one always equals two no matter what part of the universe you happen to be in. And the laws of nature operate in beautiful harmony, a harmony that is ordered by God Himself. Aiden Wilson Tozer law beautiful two Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down by destroying our solitude, where otherwise we might drink and renew our strength before going out to face the world again. Aiden Wilson Tozer going-out solitude civilization In the Book of Acts faith was for each believer a beginning, not an end; it was a journey, not a bed in which to lie while waiting for the day of our Lord's triumph. Believing was not a once-done act; it was more than an act, it was an attitude of heart and mind which inspired and enabled the believer to take up his cross and follow the Lamb whithersoever He went. Aiden Wilson Tozer attitude believe lying The veil of money has never been about how much money you have but about how much money has you. Aiden Wilson Tozer veils What God declares the believing heart confesses without the need of further proof. Indeed, to seek proof is to admit doubt, and to obtain proof is to render faith superfluous. Aiden Wilson Tozer doubt heart believe To know the Creator and the God of all the universe is to revere Him. It is to bow down before Him in wonder and awesome fear. Aiden Wilson Tozer creator bows wonder 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 Philosophy and science have not always been friendly toward the idea of God, the reason being they are dedicated to the task of accounting for things and are impatient with anything that refuses to give an account of itself. The philosopher and the scientist will admit that there is much that they do not know; but that is quite another thing from admitting there is something which they can never know, which indeed they have no technique for discovering. Aiden Wilson Tozer giving philosophy ideas The fact is that, we are not producing saints. We are making converts to an effete type of Christianity, that bears little resemblance to that of the New Testament. The average so-called Bible Christian of our times is but a shallow display of true sainthood. Yet, we put millions of dollars behind ‘movements’ to perpetuate this lower form of religion and attack the man who dares to challenge the wisdom of it. Aiden Wilson Tozer christian average men God doesn't work through us because we're flawless; rather, He works through us in spite of our imperfections. Aiden Wilson Tozer religious christian god The weakness of so many modern Christians is that they feel to much at home in the world. In their effort to achieve restful 'adjustment' to unregenerate society they have lost their pilgrim character and become an essential part of the very moral order against which they are sent to protest. Aiden Wilson Tozer christian home character Whoever seeks God as a means toward desired ends will not find God. The mighty God, the maker of heaven and earth, will not be one of many treasures, not even the chief of all treasures. He will be all in all or He will be nothing. God will not be used. Aiden Wilson Tozer treasure heaven mean The Christian church was designed to make sinners sweat. I have always believed that, and I still believe it. The messages preached in our churches should make backslidden Christians sweat. And if I achieve that objective when I preach, I thank God with all of my heart, no matter what people think of me. Aiden Wilson Tozer christian heart believe If JESUS cannot control you, HE cannot save you. And if HE cannot control ALL of you HE cannot control any of you. Aiden Wilson Tozer ifs jesus The Bible was written in tears, and to tears it yields its best treasures. Aiden Wilson Tozer yield treasure tears To accept Christ is to know the meaning of the words 'as he is, so are we in this world.' We accept his friends as our friends, his enemies as our enemies, his ways as our ways, his rejection as our rejection, his cross as our cross, his life as our life and his future as our future. If this is what we mean when we advise the seeker to accept Christ, we had better explain it to him. He may get into deep spiritual trouble unless we do. Aiden Wilson Tozer rejection spiritual mean 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. Aiden Wilson Tozer religious roots heart
