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 More Quotes by Aiden Wilson Tozer More Quotes From Aiden Wilson Tozer God is raising up His heroes and the time will come when they will appear and the world will wonder where they came from. Aiden Wilson Tozer hero wonder world You can blame circumstances, but backsliding always begins in the heart. Aiden Wilson Tozer blame circumstances heart May not the inadequacy of much of our spiritual experience be traced back to our habit of skipping through the corridors of the Kingdom like children in the market place, chattering about everything, but pausing to learn the value of nothing. Aiden Wilson Tozer spiritual may children The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God, that they may enter into Him, that they may delight in His Presence, may taste and know the inner sweetness of the very God Himself in the core and center of their hearts. Aiden Wilson Tozer prayer heart bible God does not stop at rescuing us; the purpose of that rescue is to enjoy fellowship with us. Aiden Wilson Tozer fellowship purpose doe God is never satisfied with anything less than all. Aiden Wilson Tozer satisfied The main thing is this: we should never blame anyone or anything for our defeats. No matter how evil their intentions may be, they are altogether unable to harm us until we begin to blame them and use them as excuses for our own unbelief. Aiden Wilson Tozer use evil may The true Church has never sounded out public expectations before launching her mission. Her leaders heard from God, they knew their Lord's will and did it. Their people followed them - sometimes to triumph, oftener to insults and public persecution - and their sufficient reward was the satisfaction of being right in a wrong world! Aiden Wilson Tozer leader expectations people Whatever a man wants badly and persistently enough will determine the man's character. Aiden Wilson Tozer want character men All things as they move toward God are beautiful, and they are ugly as they move away from Him. Aiden Wilson Tozer ugly beautiful moving If you have to be reasoned into Christianity, some wise fellow can reason you out of it! If you come to Christ by a flash of the Holy Spirit so that by intuition you know that you are God's child, you know it by the text but you also know it by the inner light, the inner illumination of the Spirit, and no one can ever reason you out of it. Aiden Wilson Tozer christian god bible We must never rest until everything inside us worships God. Aiden Wilson Tozer worship-god worship Genuine Christian experience must always include an encounter with God Himself. Aiden Wilson Tozer genuine encounters christian The essence of surrender is getting out of God's way so that He can do in us what He also wants to do through us. Aiden Wilson Tozer religious christian god Left to ourselves we tend immediately to reduce God to manageable terms. Aiden Wilson Tozer manageable left term Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will. Aiden Wilson Tozer leadership motivational inspirational O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need for further grace. I am ashamed of my lack of desire. O God, the Triune God, I want to want Thee; I long to be filled with longing; I thirst to be made more thirsty still. Show me Thy glory, I pray Thee, so that I may know Thee indeed. Begin in mercy a new work of love within me. Say to my soul, ‘Rise up my love, my fair one, and come away.’ Then give me grace to rise and follow Thee up from this misty lowland where I have wandered so long. Aiden Wilson Tozer grace giving long There are rare Christians whose very presence incites others to be better Christians. I want to be that rare Christian. Aiden Wilson Tozer christian want The average Christian is so cold and so contented with His wretched condition that there is no vacuum of desire into which the blessed Spirit can rush in satisfying fullness. Aiden Wilson Tozer blessed christian average O God and Father, I repent of my sinful preoccupation with visible things. The world has been too much with me. Thou hast been here and I knew it not. I have been blind to Thy Presence. Open my eyes that I may behold Thee in and around me. For Christ's sake, Amen. Aiden Wilson Tozer too-much eye father
