Religion has accepted the monstrous heresy that noise, size, activity and bluster make a man dear to God. Aiden Wilson Tozer More Quotes by Aiden Wilson Tozer More Quotes From Aiden Wilson Tozer Our identification with Christ should be that whatever He is we also want to become. Aiden Wilson Tozer identification want christ Our religious activities should be ordered in such a way as to have plenty of time for the cultivation of the fruits of solitude and silence. Aiden Wilson Tozer solitude silence religious A low view of God is the cause of a hundred lesser evils. A high view of God is the solution to ten thousand temporal problems. Aiden Wilson Tozer causes views evil The importance of coming into God's presence is worth overcoming all obstacles along the way. Aiden Wilson Tozer obstacles overcoming way A world of confusion and disappointment results from trying to believe without obeying. Aiden Wilson Tozer confusion disappointment believe We love the old saints, missionaries, martyrs, and reformers. Our Luthers, Bunyans, Wesleys and Asburys, etc... We will write their biographies, reverence their memories, frame their epitaphs, and build their monuments. We will do anything except imitate them. We cherish the last drop of their blood, but watch carefully over the first drop of our own. Aiden Wilson Tozer writing memories blood Let her love God as He is in Himself, and not as her imagination says He is, and pictures Him. Aiden Wilson Tozer god-love imagination We're here to be worshipers first and workers only second Aiden Wilson Tozer workers worship firsts What a blessed truth to understand that, in the middle of all of our difficulties and calamities, we have a refuge. Aiden Wilson Tozer calamity middle blessed The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them. Aiden Wilson Tozer ideals voice leadership Wherever we find Jesus is the perfect place to worship. Aiden Wilson Tozer worship perfect jesus Secularism, materialism, and the intrusive presence of things have put out the light in our souls and turned us into a generation of zombies. Aiden Wilson Tozer zombie light soul All the problems of heaven and earth, though they were to confront us together and at once, would be nothing compared with that overwhelming problem of God: That He is; what He is like; and what we as moral beings must do about Him. Aiden Wilson Tozer would-be together heaven Judas Iscariot was not a greatly wicked person, just a common money-lover, and like most money-lovers, he did not understand Christ. Aiden Wilson Tozer wicked-person lovers common Many things about our salvation are beyond our comprehension, but not beyond our trust. Aiden Wilson Tozer comprehension salvation The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him. The heaviest obligation lying upon the Christian Church today is to purify and elevate her concept of God until it is once more worthy of Him. Aiden Wilson Tozer essence christian lying When a man of God dies, nothing of God dies. Aiden Wilson Tozer man-of-god dies men Is it ever possible to overdo the talking about the glory of Christ? Is it ever too often to be in God's presence? Aiden Wilson Tozer glory talking christ So when we sing, 'Draw me nearer, nearer, blessed Lord,' we are not thinking of the nearness of place, but of the nearness of relationship. It is for increasing degrees of awareness that we pray, for a more perfect consciousness of the divine Presence. We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts. Aiden Wilson Tozer space blessed thinking Worship is to feel in your heart and express in some appropriate manner a humbling but delightful sense of admiring awe and astonished wonder and overpowering love in the presence of that most Ancient Mystery, that Majesty which philosophers call the first cause, but which we call our Father which art in heaven. Aiden Wilson Tozer heaven father art
