Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will. Aiden Wilson Tozer More Quotes by Aiden Wilson Tozer More Quotes From Aiden Wilson Tozer Christians don't tell lies they just go to church and sing them. Aiden Wilson Tozer church christian lying To desire revival...and at the same time to neglect(personal) prayer and devotion is to wish one way and walk another. Aiden Wilson Tozer religious christian god A pharisee is hard on others and easy on himself, but a spiritual man is easy on others and hard on himself. Aiden Wilson Tozer spiritual christian god We who follow Christ are men and women of eternity. We must put no confidence in the passing scenes of the disappearing world. We must resist every attempt of Satan to palm off upon us the values that belong to mortality. Nothing less than forever is long enough for us. Aiden Wilson Tozer forever men long Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith. Aiden Wilson Tozer christian faith god What has the church gained if it is popular but there is no conviction, no repentance, no power? Aiden Wilson Tozer repentance conviction church God is not silent. It is the nature of God to speak. The second person of the Holy Trinity is called "The Word." The Bible is the inevitable outcome of God's continuous speech. It is the infallible declaration of His mind. Aiden Wilson Tozer christian mind bible God rescues us by breaking us, by shattering our strength and wiping out our resistance. Aiden Wilson Tozer rescue wiping-out resistance We must of necessity be servant to someone, either to God or to sin. The man who surrenders to Christ exchanges a cruel slave driver for a kind and gentle master whose yoke is easy and whose burden is light. Aiden Wilson Tozer yoke light men The heart that knows God can find God anywhere. Aiden Wilson Tozer knowing-god knows heart To avoid the hard necessity of either obeying or rejecting the plain instructions of our Lord in the New Testament we take refuge in a liberal interpretation of them. We evangelicals also know how to avoid the sharp point of obedience by means of fine and intricate explanations. These are tailor-made for the flesh. They excuse disobedience, comfort carnality and make the words of Christ of none effect. And the essence of it all is that Christ simply could not have meant what He said. His teachings are accepted even theoretically only after they have been weakened by interpretation. Aiden Wilson Tozer essence teaching mean Man appears for a little while to laugh and weep, to work and play, and then to go to make room for those who shall follow him in the never-ending cycle. Aiden Wilson Tozer play laughing men God knows instantly and effortlessly all matter and all matters, all mind and every mind, all spirit and all spirits, all being and every being, all creaturehood and all creatures, every plurality and all pluralities, all law and every law, all relations, all causes, all thoughts, all mysteries, all enigmas, all feeling, all desires, every unuttered secret, all thrones and dominions, all personalities, all things visible and invisible in heaven and in earth, motion, space, time, life, death, good, evil, heaven, and hell. Aiden Wilson Tozer space evil law In coming to Christ we don't bring our old life up to a higher plane; we leave it at the cross. Aiden Wilson Tozer planes crosses christ Let the average man be put to the proof on the question of who is above, and his true position will be exposed. Let him be forced into making a choice between God and money, between God and men, between God and personal ambition, God and self, God and human love, and God will take second place every time. Aiden Wilson Tozer ambition love men No man gives anything acceptable to God until has has first given himself in love and sacrifice. Aiden Wilson Tozer sacrifice giving men What good is all our busy religion if God isn't in it? What good is it if we've lost majesty, reverence, worship-an awareness of the divine? What good is it if we've lost a sense of the Presence and the ability to retreat within our own hearts and meet God in the garden? Aiden Wilson Tozer majesty garden heart Time is a resource that is non-renewable and non-transferable. You cannot store it, slow it up, hold it up, divide it up or give it up. You can’t hoard it up or save it for a rainy day—when it’s lost it is unrecoverable. When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection. Aiden Wilson Tozer rainy-day remember giving Go to church once a week and nobody pays attention. Worship God seven days a week and you become strange! Aiden Wilson Tozer church christian god Coming before God in quietness & waiting upon Him in silence often can accomplish more than days of feverish activity. Aiden Wilson Tozer often-can silence waiting
