The purpose of God isn't to save us from Hell. The purpose of God is to make us like Christ. Aiden Wilson Tozer More Quotes by Aiden Wilson Tozer More Quotes From Aiden Wilson Tozer Come near to the holy men and women of the past and you will soon feel the heat of their desire after God. They mourned for Him, they prayed and wrestled and sought for Him day and night, in season and out, and when they found Him, the finding was all the sweeter for the long seeking. Aiden Wilson Tozer christian night past God must do everything for us. Our part is to yield and trust Aiden Wilson Tozer yield God desires to reveal to us that His capacity to forgive is bigger than our capacity to sin. Aiden Wilson Tozer forgiving sin desire We must have a new reformation. There must come a violent break with that irresponsible, amusement-mad, paganized pseudo-religion which passes today for the faith of Christ and which is being spread all over the world by unspiritual men employing unscriptural methods to achieve their ends. Aiden Wilson Tozer mad men world As the excellence of steel is strength, and the excellence of art is beauty, so the excellence of mankind is moral character. Aiden Wilson Tozer excellence character art If worship bores you, you are not ready for heaven. Aiden Wilson Tozer bores-you worship heaven Any spirit that permits compromise with the world is a false spirit. Any religious movement that imitates the world in any of its manifestations is false to the cross of Christ and on the side of the devil. Aiden Wilson Tozer devil religious religion Any doctrine that makes the world your friend is not your friend. Aiden Wilson Tozer doctrine world Our walk by faith, if it is true biblical faith, will get us in trouble. Aiden Wilson Tozer walk-by-faith biblical trouble When the Holy Spirit is in full control of our lives, He will expect our obedience to the written Word of God. But it is part of our human problem that we would like to be full of the Spirit and yet go on and do as we please! Aiden Wilson Tozer problem spirit goes-on A holy man isn't aware that he's holy..As soon as we begin to talk about how holy we are, we aren't holy any more. Aiden Wilson Tozer holy-man holy men When God would make His Name known to mankind He could find no better word than "I AM." When He speaks in the first person He says, "I AM"; when we speak of Him we say, "He is"; when we speak to Him we say, "Thou art." Everyone and everything else measures from that fixed point. "I am that I am," says God, "I change not." Aiden Wilson Tozer fixed change names You can be straight as a gun barrel theologically, and as empty as one spiritually. Aiden Wilson Tozer barrels empty gun You are a mirror of the Almighty...this is the reason you were created...your purpose. Aiden Wilson Tozer christian faith god Hope is the music of the whole Bible, the heartbeat, the pulse and the atmosphere of the whole Bible. Aiden Wilson Tozer atmosphere pulse heart If you will not worship God seven days a week, you do not worship Him one day a week. Aiden Wilson Tozer seven-days one-day worship The Lordship of Jesus Christ is not quite forgotten among Christians, but it has been relegated to the hymnal where all responsibility toward it may be comfortably discharged in a glow of religious emotion. Or if it is taught as a theory in the classroom it is rarely applied to practical living. The idea that the Man Christ Jesus has absolute final authority over the whole church and over its members in every detail of their lives is simply not now accepted as true by the rank and file of evangelical Christians. Aiden Wilson Tozer religious christian jesus There is a restlessness within us that cannot be satisfied until we rest fully in God. Aiden Wilson Tozer restlessness satisfied God will speak to the hearts of those who prepare themselves to hear; and conversely, those who do not so prepare themselves will hear nothing even though the Word of God is falling upon their outer ears every Sunday. Aiden Wilson Tozer sunday heart fall I want to be a more serious-minded Christian, more detached from this world, more ready for heaven than I have ever been in my whole life. I want an ear that is sharp to know the voice of the enemy, whether it comes from religion, politics, or philosophy ... I would rather stand and have everybody my enemy than to go along with the crowd to destruction. Do you feel that way? Aiden Wilson Tozer voice christian philosophy
