100+ Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.

Topics: Bible, Christian, Spiritual, Spiritual Perfection, Bible Study

quote jesus christ knows the worst about you nonetheless he is the one who loves you the most aiden wilson tozer Quotes

Anything God has ever done, he can do now. Anything God has ever done anywhere, he can do here. Anything God has ever done for anyone, he can do for you.

Topics: Done

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?

Topics: Christian, Philosophy, Voice, Religion Politics, Great Christian

The way to deeper knowledge of God is through the lonely valleys of soul poverty and abnegation of all things. The blessed ones who possess the Kingdom are they who have repudiated every external thing and have rooted from their hearts all sense of possessing. These are the 'poor in spirit.'

Topics: Lonely, Blessed, Heart, Poor In Spirit, Abnegation

In Him (God), history and prophecy are one and the same.

Topics: Christian, Christian Inspirational, Prophecy

If Bible Christianity is to survive the present world upheaval, we shall need to have a fresh revelation of the greatness and the beauty of Jesus.... He alone can raise our cold hearts to rapture and restore again the art of true worship.

Topics: Jesus, Art, Prayer, Cold Heart, True Worship

When I understand that everything happening to me is to make me more Christlike, it resolves a great deal of anxiety.

Topics: Christian, Jesus, Anxiety

The basic trouble with the church today is her unworthy concept of God... Our religion is weak because our God is weak... Christianity at any given time is strong or weak depending on her concept of God.

Topics: Strong, Church, Today, Church Today

I like Easter. But let's remember that Christ's resurrection is not truer at Easter than at any other time of the year.

Topics: Easter, Years, Remember

Jesus Christ knows the worst about you. Nonetheless, He is the one who loves you the most.

Topics: Jesus, Love You, Christ

Show me the condition of your Bible and I will accurately gauge the condition of your soul.

Topics: Soul, Gauges, Show Me

The degree of blessing enjoyed by any man will correspond exactly with the completeness of God's victory over him.

Topics: Blessing, Men, Victory, Completeness

Much of our difficulty as seeking Christians stems from our unwillingness to take God as He is and adjust our lives accordingly. We insist upon trying to modify Him and bring Him nearer to our own image.

Topics: Life, Christian, Trying

Each day presents a new opportunity to experience God's presence.

Topics: Opportunity, Each Day, New Opportunity, God's Presence

God often hides His blessing in trouble or trial, which makes it all the sweeter when it comes our way.

Topics: Blessing, Trials, Way, Instruments Of God, God Is In Control

Father, may my song today be a sweet sound in Your ears-even if in Yours alone. Amen.

Topics: Song, Sweet, Father

When we yield ourselves completely to God, He gives Himself completely to us.

Topics: Yield, Giving

God loves you not because you are worthy, but because He is God and you are a fixture in His mind.

Topics: God, Christian, Love You, God Loves You, Religious Love

The purpose of God isn't to save us from Hell. The purpose of God is to make us like Christ.

Topics: Purpose, Hell, Christ, Purpose Of God

Nothing should so occupy the mind of the Christian than discovering God each day.

Topics: Christian, Mind, Each Day

We can express our worship to God in many ways. But if we love the Lord and are led by His Holy Spirit, our worship will always bring a delighted sense of admiring awe and a sincere humility on our part.

Topics: Humility, Way, Spirit, True Worship

May God deliver us from the easygoing, smooth, comfortable Christianity that never lets the truth get hold of us.

Topics: May, Christianity, Smooth

The problem of why God created the universe still troubles thinking men; but if we cannot know why, we can at least know that He did not bring His worlds into being to meet some unfulfilled need in Himself, as a man might build a house to shelter him against the winter cold or plant a field of corn to provide him with necessary food. The word 'necessary' is wholly foreign to God.

Topics: Winter, Men, Thinking, Winter Cold, Thinking Man

Acquaint thyself with God.

Topics: Thyself

The meek man is not a human mouse afflicted with a sense of his own inferiority. He has accepted God's estimate of his own life: In himself, nothing; In God, everything. He knows well that the world will never see him as God sees him and he has stopped caring.

Topics: Humility, Caring, Men, Stopped Caring, Meek

It is doubtful we can be Christian in anything unless we are Christian in everything.

Topics: Christian, Doubtful

There is no limit to what God can do through us if we are a yielded and purified people.

Topics: God, Christian, Religious

We must never edit God.

Topics: Bible, Christian

We have been snared in the coils of a spurious logic which insists that if we have found Him we need no more seek Him.

Topics: Needs, Logic, Found

You can be straight as a gun barrel theologically, and as empty as one spiritually.

Topics: Gun, Empty, Barrels

I do not know why God does some things, but I am convinced that nothing is accidental in his universe.

Topics: Doe, Universe

If God takes away from us the old, wrinkled, beat-up dollar bill we have clutched so desperately, it is only because He wants to exchange it for the whole Federal mint, the entire treasury! He is saying to us, 'I have in store for you all the resources of heaven. Help yourself.'

Topics: Heaven, Dollar Bills, Dollars, Mint, Treasury

An honest man with an open Bible and a pad and pencil is sure to find out what is wrong with him very quickly.

Topics: Men, Pads, Honest

Wise leaders should have known that the human heart cannot exist in a vacuum. If Christians are forbidden to enjoy the wine of the Spirit they will turn to the wine of the flesh....Christ died for our hearts and the Holy Spirit wants to come and satisfy them.

Topics: Christian, Wise, Heart, Wise Leaders, Should Have Known

Why do some persons 'find' God in a way that others do not? Why does God manifest His Presence to some and let multitudes of others struggle along in the half-light of imperfect Christian experience? Of course the will of God is the same for all. He has no favorites within His household. All He has ever done for any of His children He will do for all of His children. The difference lies not with God but with us.

Topics: Christian, Children, Lying, Others Struggles

Promoting self under the guise of promoting Christ is currently so common as to excite little notice.

Topics: Self, Littles, Common

The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him.

Topics: Essence, Entertainment, Idolatry, Church Today

If we cooperate with Him in loving obedience, God will manifest Himself to us, and that manifestation will be the difference between a nominal Christian life and a life radiant with the light of His face.

Topics: Christian, Light, Differences

It's not my business to try and make God think like me... but to try, in prayer and penitence, to think like God.

Topics: Christian, Prayer, Thinking, Penitence

Whatever a man wants badly and persistently enough will determine the man's character.

Topics: Character, Men, Want

To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul's paradox of love, scorned indeed by the too-easily-satisfied religionist, but justified in happy experience by the children of the burning heart.

Topics: Children, Heart, Soul, Scorned, Happy Experience

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.

Topics: Attitude, Lying, Believe

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.

Topics: Christian, Blessed, Average

The man that believes will obey; failure to obey is convincing proof that there is no true faith present. To attempt the impossible God must give faith or there will be none, and He gives faith to the obedient heart only.

Topics: Believe, Heart, Men

The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary both to the Scriptures and to common sense.

Topics: Ideas, Common Sense, Scripture

We modern Christians are long on talk and short on conduct.

Topics: Christian, Long, Modern

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.

Topics: Civilization, Solitude, Going Out, Devotional

I am a Bible Christian and if an archangel with a wingspread as broad as a constellation shining like the sun were to come and offer me some new truth, I'd ask him for a reference. If he could not show me where it is found in the Bible, I would bow him out and say, I'm awfully sorry, you don't bring any references with you

Topics: Christian, Sorry, Shining, Archangel

What does this word holiness really mean? Is it a negative kind of piety from which so many people have shied away? No, of course not! Holiness in the Bible means moral wholeness-- a positive quality which actually includes kindness, mercy, purity, moral blamelessness and godliness. It is always to be thought of in a positive, white intensity of degree.

Topics: Kindness, Mean, White

The notion that the careless sinner is the smart fellow and the serious-minded Christian, though well-intentioned, is a stupid dolt altogether out of touch with life will not stand up under scrutiny. Sin is basically an act of moral folly, and the greater the folly the greater the fool.

Topics: Christian, Smart, Stupid

Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul.

Topics: Spiritual, Soul, Enemy, Spiritual Progress, Contentedness

I say that a Christian congregation can survive and often appear to prosper in the community by the exercise of human talent and without any touch from the Holy Spirit! All that religious activity and the dear people will not know anything better until the great and terrible day when our self-employed talents are burned with fire and only that which was wrought by the Holy Ghost will stand forever!

Topics: Christian, Religious, Exercise, Terrible Day

Many of us Christians have become extremely skillful in arranging our lives so as to admit the truth of Christianity without being embarrassed by its implications. We arrange things so that we can get on well enough without divine aid, while at the same time ostensibly seeking it. We boast in the Lord but watch carefully that we never get caught depending on Him.

Topics: Christian, Watches, Lord, Arranging Things

Without doubt the emphasis in Christian teaching today should be on worship. There is little danger that we shall become merely worshipers and neglect the practical implications of the gospel. No one can long worship God in spirit and in truth before the obligation to holy service becomes too strong to resist. Fellowship with God leads straight to obedience and good works. That is the divine order and it can never be reversed.

Topics: Christian, Strong, Teaching, Fellowship With God, Divine Order

Nobody ever got anything from God on the grounds that he deserved it. Haven fallen, man deserves only punishment and death. So if God answers prayer it's because God is good. From His goodness, His lovingkindness, His good-natured benevolence, God does it! That's the source of everything.

Topics: Prayer, Men, Doe, Lovingkindness, God Answers Prayers

Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ to His people. He waits to be wanted. Too bad that with many of us He waits so long, so very long, in vain.

Topics: Spiritual, Long, People, Spiritual Growth

God is so vastly wonderful, so utterly and completely delightful that He can, without anything other than Himself, meet and overflow the deepest demands of our total nature, mysterious and deep as that nature is.

Topics: Demand, Mysterious, Wonderful, Overflow

For the Christian, humility is absolutely indispensable. Without it there can be no self-knowledge, no repentance, no faith and no salvation.

Topics: Christian, Humility, Self, Christian Humility

If the Holy Spirit was withdrawn from the church today, 95 percent of what we do would go on and no one would know the difference. If the Holy Spirit had been withdrawn from the New Testament church, 95 percent of what they did would stop, and everybody would know the difference.

Topics: Christian, Differences, Church, Attending Church, Church Today

Most of the world's great souls have been lonely. Loneliness seems to be one price the saint must pay for his saintliness... Always remember: you cannot carry a cross in company. Though a man were surrounded by a vast crowd, his cross is his alone and his carrying of it marks him as a man apart. Society has turned against him; otherwise he would have no cross. No one is a friend to the man with a cross.

Topics: Christian, Lonely, Loneliness, Great Souls

While we are looking at God we do not see ourselves-blessed riddance.

Topics: Christian, Prayer, Blessed, Riddance

Leadership requires vision, and whence will vision come except from hours spent in the presence of God in humble and fervent prayer?

Topics: Christian, Prayer, Humble, Fervent, Fervent Prayer

Christian liberty is freedom from sin, not freedom to sin.

Topics: Christian, Liberty, Sin, Christian Ethics, Sins Not

Most Christians are satisfied living as common Christians, without an insatiable hunger for the deeper things of God.

Topics: Christian, Common, Hunger, Insatiable Hunger

To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.

Topics: God, Men, Trouble

God expects of us only what He Himself has supplied.

Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God.

Topics: Power, Self, Helping

The neglected heart will soon be a heart overrun with worldly thoughts; the neglected life will soon become a moral chaos.

Topics: Heart, Morality, Chaos, Prayer Meeting

People have faith in 'faith' and largely forget that our confidence is not in the power of faith but in the Person and work of the Savior, Jesus Christ.

Topics: Jesus, People, Have Faith, Savior Jesus

In the Bible, the race of life is never considered from the viewpoint of speed... We are to run it with patience.

Topics: Running, Race, Viewpoints

Breezy, self-confident Christians tell us how wonderful it is to accept Christ and then have a good time all the rest of your life; the Lord won't demand anything of you. Yes, He will, my friend! The Lord will demand everything of you. And when you give it all up to Him, He may bless it and hand it back, but on the other hand He may not....

Topics: Christian, Self, Hands, Breezy, Self Confident

The man who has made God his dwelling place will always have a safe habitation.

Topics: Men, Dwelling, Safe, Christian New Year, Dwelling Place

Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits upon the undeserving. It is a self-existent principle inherent in the divine nature and appears to us as a self-caused propensity to pity the wretched, spare the guilty, welcome the outcast, and bring into favor those who were before under just disapprobation. Its use to us sinful men is to save us and make us sit together in heavenly places to demonstrate to the ages the exceeding riches of God's kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

Topics: Jesus, Kindness, Men, Undeserving, Divine Nature

Nothing that God has ever said about Himself will be modified; nothing the inspired prophets and apostles have said about Him will be rescinded. His immutability guarantees this.

Topics: Christian, Guarantees, Inspired

God answers our prayers not because we are good, but because He is good.

Topics: Christian, Prayer, Answers, Mighty God, Commitment To God

The constantly recurring question must be: What shall we unite with and from what shall we separate? The question of coexistence does not enter here, but the question of union and fellowship does. The wheat grows in the same field as the tares, but shall the two cross-pollinate? The sheep graze near the goats, but shall they seek to interbreed? The unjust and the just enjoy the same rain and sunshine, but shall they forget their deep moral differences and intermarry? ... The Spirit-illuminated church will have none of this

Topics: Rain, Sunshine, Two

Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free. If we understand our first and sole duty to consist of loving God supremely and loving everyone, even our enemies, for God's dear sake, then we can enjoy spiritual tranquility under every circumstance.

Topics: Spiritual, Heart, Men, Hinder

Let any man turn to God in earnest, let him begin to exercise himself unto godliness, let him seek to develop his powers of spiritual receptivity by trust and obedience and humility, and the results will exceed anything he may have hoped in his leaner and weaker days.

Topics: Spiritual, Humility, Exercise, Receptivity, Exceed

All things else being equal, our prayers are only as powerful as our lives. In the long pull we only pray as well as we live.

Topics: Prayer, Powerful, Long

There are two classes of Christians: the proud who imagine they are humble and the humble who are afraid they are proud. There should be another class: the self-forgetful who leave the whole thing in the hands of Christ and refuse to waste any time trying to make themselves good. They will reach the goal far ahead of the rest.

Topics: Christian, Humble, Humility, Forgetful

Problems patiently endured will work for our spiritual perfecting.

Topics: Christian, Spiritual, Christian Inspirational, Murmuring

God's plan will continue on God's schedule.

Topics: Christian, Schedules, God's Plan

We must meet the uncertainties of this world with the certainty of the world to come.

Topics: Christian, World, Certainty

Men are free to decide their own moral choices, but they are also under the necessity to account to God for those choices.

Topics: Christian, Men, Choices, Moral Choices

He (God) may sometimes chasten us, it is true, but even this He does with a smile, the proud, tender smile of a Father who is bursting with pleasure over an imperfect but promising son who is coming every day to look more and more like the One whose child he is.

Topics: Christian, Children, Father

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.

Topics: Christian, Past, Night

Pray; and as you pray, surrender; and as you surrender, believe.

Topics: Christian, Believe, Praying

To be entirely safe from the devil's snares the man of God must be completely obedient to the Word of the Lord. The driver on the highway is safe, not when he reads the signs but when he obeys them.

Topics: Christian, Men, Devil, Snares, Man Of God

Satan hates God for His own sake, and everything that is dear to God he hates for the very reason that God loves it.

Topics: Christian, Hate, Sake, Hate God

The gravest question any of us face is whether we do or do not love the Lord.

Topics: Christian, Christian Inspirational, Faces

When men no longer fear God, they transgress His laws without hesitation. The fear of consequences is no deterrent when the fear of God is gone.

Topics: Christian, Men, Law, Deterrent

We are sent to bless the world, but we are never told to compromise with it.

Topics: Blessing, World, Compromise

Worship, I say, rises or falls with our concept of God .... and if there is one terrible disease in the Church of Christ, it is that we do not see God as great as He is.

Topics: Fall, Church, Disease, Church Of Christ

Save me from the error of judging a church by its size, popularity or the amount of its yearly offerings.

Topics: Errors, Offering, Judging

Too often we are Christians by assumption, manipulation or instruction, rather than Christians by regeneration.

Topics: Christian, Manipulation, Assumption

The Cross is not responsible for God's love; rather it was His love that conceived the Cross.

Topics: His Love, Responsible, Crosses

A world of confusion and disappointment results from trying to believe without obeying.

Topics: Disappointment, Believe, Confusion, Obeying

There are rare Christians whose very presence incites others to be better Christians. I want to be that rare Christian.

Topics: Christian, Want

Our identification with Christ should be that whatever He is we also want to become.

Topics: Want, Christ, Identification

There is a strain of loneliness infecting many Christians, which only the presence of God can cure.

Topics: Christian, Loneliness, Cures, Infection

The big problem is not whether the Bible is true. The big problem is whether it is true in you.

Topics: Problem, Bigs, Trueness

The inner life must overcome the flesh or the flesh will overcome and destroy the inner life.

Topics: Overcoming, Flesh, Inner Life

It takes simplicity and humility to worship God acceptably.

Topics: Humility, Simplicity, Worship

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.

Topics: Memories, Writing, Blood, Self-denial

Whatever God felt about anything, He still feels. Whatever He thought about anyone, He still thinks. Whatever He approved, He still approves. Whatever He condemned, He still condemns. Today we have what they call the relativity of morals. But remember this God never changes. Holiness and righteousness are conformity to the will of God. And the will of God never changes for moral creatures.

Topics: Thinking, Holiness, Today

Is it ever possible to overdo the talking about the glory of Christ? Is it ever too often to be in God's presence?

Topics: Talking, Christ, Glory

If we can trust the sufferings of Christ for our sake then we can trust Christ when we suffer for His sake.

Topics: Suffering, Sake, Christ

If a man has only correct doctrine to offer me, I am sure to slip out at the first intermission to seek the company of someone who has seen for himself how lovely is the face of Him who is the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the Valley. Such a man can help me, and no one else can.

Topics: Motivation, Inspiration, Men, Sharon, Intermission

Love is both a principle and an emotion; it is something both felt and willed. It is capable of almost infinite degrees. Love in the human heart may begin so modestly as to be hardly perceptible and go on to become a raging torrent that sweeps its possessor before it in total helplessness.

Topics: Motivation, Inspiration, Heart

True worship, worship that is pleasing to God, radiates throughout a person's entire life.

Topics: Worship, Persons, True Worship

When you focus on the eternal, victorious Son of God, you break the devil's heart and render him powerless.

Topics: Heart, Son, Focus

Jesus came not to condemn, but to reclaim.

Topics: Jesus

God is never impressed with what a man can do. He is more concerned with what a man is.

Topics: Men, Concerned

Every ransomed man owes his salvation to the fact that during his days of sinning, God kept the door of mercy open.

Topics: Men, Doors, Facts

When we are enjoying the conscious presence of God, we are fulfilling the tenets of our salvation.

Topics: Conscious, Salvation, Enjoy

How utterly terrible is the current idea that Christians can serve God at their own convenience.

Topics: Christian, Ideas, Convenience, Crazy Ideas, Christian Service

Do not allow the enemy of your soul to rob you of that unique quality God has breathed into you.

Topics: Unique, Soul, Enemy

Come to the Word with a spirit of longing with devotion and humble expectation. Be determined to know God.

Topics: Humble, Expectations, Spirit

Unselfish love does not exploit its object and it does not ask for anything in return.

Topics: Doe, Unselfish Love, Return, Unselfish, Exploits

The importance of coming into God's presence is worth overcoming all obstacles along the way.

Topics: Overcoming, Way, Obstacles, God's Presence

Only the blood of Jesus can cleanse us, yet if we withhold ourselves from that blood, we will be unclean forever.

Topics: Jesus, Blood, Forever, Blood Of Jesus

We cannot enter into the presence of God while we are rebelling against God.

Topics: Presence Of God

Real faith never disappoints because it is in God, grounded on His character, promises, covenant and oath.

Topics: Real, Character, Promise

When the eyes of the soul looking out meet the eyes of God looking in, heaven has begun right here on earth.

Topics: Eye, Heaven, Soul

Dare to contend without being contentious. Preserve the truth without hurting people. Love and be charitable.

Topics: Hurt, People, Dare, Hurting People, Contentious

In an effort to get the work of the Lord done we often lose contact with the Lord of work.

Topics: Effort, Done, Lord

Oh, if we would only remember who God is!

Topics: Who God Is, Remember

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.

Topics: Love, Ambition, Men, Second Place, God And Love

The greatest encouragement throughout the Bible is God's love for His lost race and the willingness of Christ, the eternal Son, to show forth that love in God's plan of redemption. The love of Jesus is so inclusive that it knows no boundaries. At the point where we stop caring and loving, Jesus is still there loving and caring

Topics: Love, Encouragement, Jesus, Stop Caring, Loving Jesus

When God would make His name known to mankind, He could find no better word than "I AM." "I am that I am," says God, "I change not." Everyone and everything else measures from that fixed point.

Topics: Change, Names, Fixed

We tend by a secret law of the soul to move towards our mental image of God.

Topics: Moving, Law, Soul, God Image

Nothing in or of this world measures up to the simple pleasure of experiencing the presence of God.

Topics: Simple, World, Pleasure, Intimacy With God, Simple Pleasures

And what kind of habitation pleases God? What must our natures be like before he can feel at home within us? He asks nothing but a pure heart and a single mind. He asks no rich paneling, no rugs from the Orient, no art treasures from afar. He desires but sincerity, transparency, humility, and love. He will see to the rest.

Topics: Art, Home, Humility, Pure Heart

If you will not worship God seven days a week, you do not worship Him one day a week.

Topics: One Day, Worship, Week, Seven Days

Maybe God is calling you to do something extraordinary that isn't on your calendar; something to revive your soul!

Topics: Soul, Calendars, Calling, Revive

Our problem is that we go from toy to toy rather than from glory to glory.

Topics: Toys, Problem, Glory

The natural man must know in order to believe; The spiritual man must believe in order to know

Topics: Spiritual, Believe, Men

What is of man uses manipulation to conform. What is of #God uses implantation to transform.

Topics: Men, Use, Manipulation

Christ dazzles me and stirs within me such feelings of amazement that I can never get over Him.

Topics: Feelings, Dazzle, Christ

I fear that for the most part people are worshiping worship rather than worshiping God and communing with Him.

Topics: People, Worship, Worship God, Talking To God

Apart from God nothing matters. We think that health matters, that freedom matters, or knowledge or art or civilization. And but for one insistent word they would matter indeed. That word is eternity.

Topics: Art, Thinking, Civilization

We need to learn that truth consists not in correct doctrine, but in correct doctrine plus the inward enlightenment of the Holy Spirit.

Topics: Enlightenment, Doctrine, Needs

In many churches Christianity has been watered down until the solution is so weak that if it were poison it would not hurt anyone, and if it were medicine it would not cure anyone.

Topics: Hurt, Medicine, Church

The sacred page is not meant to be the end, but only the means toward the end, which is knowing God Himself.

Topics: Mean, Knowing, Pages

We are in an age of religious complexity. The simplicity which is in Christ is rarely found among us. In its stead are programs, methods, organizations, and a world of nervous activities which occupy time and attention but can never satisfy the longing of the heart.

Topics: Religious, Heart, Organization

The true Christian ideal is not to be happy but to be holy.

Topics: Christian, Holy

The devil loves it when we say we believe then prioritize everything in our lives ahead of God.

Topics: Believe, Devil, Prioritize, Devil Love

God calls us to worship, but in many instances we are in entertainment, just running a poor second to the theaters. That is where we are, even in the evangelical churches, and I don't mind telling you that most of the people we say we are trying to reach will never come to a church to see a lot of amateur actors putting on a home-talent show.

Topics: Running, Home, People, Talent Show

A real Christian in an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every day to Someone he cannot see, expects to go to heaven on the virtue of Another, empties himself in order to be full, admits he is wrong so he can be declared right, goes down in order to get up, is strongest when he is weakest, richest when he is poorest, and happiest when he feels worst. He dies so he can live, forsakes in order to have, gives away so he can keep, sees the invisible, hears the inaudible, and knows that which passes knowledge.

Topics: Christian, Real, Order, Odd Numbers, Forsake

Yes, I believe you can be right with God and still not like the way some people behave. Our admonition is to love them in a larger and more comprehensive way because we are all one in Christ Jesus. This kind of love is indeed a Christian virtue!

Topics: God, Christian, Religious, Kinds Of Love, Admonition

To truly know God we must long for Him without any other motive than reaching God Himself.

Topics: God, Christian, Religious

One compromise here, another there and soon enough the so-called Christian and the man in the world look the same.

Topics: God, Christian, Religious

No one will make progress with God until our eyes are lifted to the faithfulness of God and we stop looking at ourselves!

Topics: God, Christian, Religious

We have become so engrossed in the work of the Lord that we have forgotten the Lord of the work.

Topics: Forgotten, Lord, Commitment To God, Following Jesus, Greatness Of God

Be thankful, but be careful that you don't become so enamored of God's good gifts that you fail to worship the giver.

Topics: God, Christian, Religious, Enamored

If you want to be holy then you must give time to God and not just intend to.

Topics: God, Christian, Religious

An honest man is strange when he is among dishonest men, but it is a good kind of strangeness.

Topics: God, Christian, Religious

Christianity is hard when we try to serve God in man's way instead of serving God in God's way.

Topics: God, Christian, Religious

Some people's lives would drastically change if they would obey God as strictly as they obey their doctors.

Topics: God, Christian, Religious

We taste Thee, O Thou Living Bread, And long to feast upon Thee still: We drink of Thee, the Fountainhead And thirst our souls from Thee to fill.

Topics: Long, Soul, Taste

Trust God in the dark until the light returns.

Topics: Dark, Light, Return

There is more healing joy in five minutes of true worship than in five nights of revelry.

Topics: Healing, Night, Joy, Revelry, True Worship

I think that most Christians would be better pleased if the Lord did not inquire into their personal affairs too closely. They want Him to save them, to keep them happy, and to take them off to heaven at last, but not to be too inquisitive about their conduct or services.

Topics: Christian, Thinking, Heaven

To pray with your fists closed means you're hanging onto something. Let it go. Open your hands to God.

Topics: Mean, Hands, Let It Go

The love of Christ both wounds and heals, it fascinates and frightens, it kills and makes alive, it draws and repulses. There can be nothing more terrible or wonderful than to be stricken with love for Christ so deeply that the whole being goes out in a pained adoration of His person, an adoration that disturbs and disconcerts while it purges and satisfies and relaxes the deep inner heart.

Topics: Heart, Relax, Alive

If we insist upon trying to imagine Him, we end with an idol, made not with hands but with thoughts; and an idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.

Topics: God, Hands, Idols

Let her love God as He is in Himself, and not as her imagination says He is, and pictures Him.

Topics: Imagination, God Love

Secularism, materialism, and the intrusive presence of things have put out the light in our souls and turned us into a generation of zombies.

Topics: Light, Soul, Zombie

I want the presence of God Himself, or I don't want anything at all to do with religion... I want all that God has or I don't want any.

Topics: Want, Presence Of God

To expose our hearts to truth and consistently refuse or neglect to obey the impulses it arouses is to stymie the motions of life within us and, if persisted in, to grieve the Holy Spirit into silence.

Topics: Heart, Grieving, Silence

I believe that entertainment and amusements are the work of the Enemy to keep dying men from knowing they're dying; and to keep enemies of God from remembering that they're enemies.

Topics: Believe, Men, Knowing

Any faith that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief; it is a pseudo belief only. And it might shock some of us profoundly if we were brought suddenly face to face with our beliefs and forced to test them in the fires of practical living.

Topics: Real, Fire, Doe, Face To Face

The burden borne by mankind is a heavy and a crushing thing. The word Jesus used means a load carried or toil borne to the point of exhaustion. Rest is simply release from that burden. It is not something we do, it is what comes to us when we cease to do. His own meekness, that is the rest.

Topics: Crush, Jesus, Mean

We can afford to follow Him to failure. Faith dares to fail. The resurrection and the judgment will demonstrate before all worlds who won and who lost. We can wait.

Topics: Waiting, World, Resurrection

The yearning to know what cannot be known, to comprehend the incomprehensible, to touch and taste the unapproachable, arises from the image of God in the nature of man. Deep calleth unto deep, and though polluted and landlocked by the mighty disaster theologians call the Fall, the soul senses its origin and longs to return to its source.

Topics: Fall, Men, Soul, Nature Of Man, God Image

But the sons of this world have not God; they have only each other, and they walk holding to each other and looking to one another for assurance like frightened children.

Topics: Children, Son, World

The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.

Topics: Religious, Judgement, Opiates

The Church has surrendered her once lofty concept of God and has substituted for it one so low, so ignoble, as to be utterly unworthy of thinking, worshiping men. This she has not done deliberately, but little by little and without her knowledge; and her very unawareness only makes her situation all the more tragic.

Topics: Men, Thinking, Church, Unawareness

God will not hold us responsible to understand the mysteries of election, predestination, and the divine sovereignty. The best and safest way to deal with these truths is to raise our eyes to God and in deepest reverence say, "0 Lord, Thou knowest." Those things belong to the deep and mysterious Profound of God's omniscience. Prying into them may make theologians, but it will never make saints.

Topics: Eye, Profound, Saint, Omniscience, Predestination

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.

Topics: Men, Play, Laughing, Work And Play, Never Ending Cycle

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.

Topics: Grace, Needs, Thirsty, I Pray, New Work

What is wisdom? It is the skill to achieve the perfect means by the perfect ends

Topics: Mean, Skills, Perfect

He had everything, but he possessed nothing. There is the spiritual secret.

Topics: Spiritual, Secret

All things as they move toward God are beautiful, and they are ugly as they move away from Him.

Topics: Beautiful, Moving, Ugly

We get the odd notion that God is showing mercy because Jesus died. No. Jesus died because God is showing mercy.

Topics: Jesus, Odd, Mercy

The author squares man's depravity with still being made in the image of God with this word picture. A vase that has held beautiful roses though now broken, will nevertheless hold something of the fragrance it once contained.

Topics: Beautiful, Men, Squares, Beautiful Rose

You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him.

Topics: Mind, Worship

Between the scribe who has read and the prophet who has seen there is a difference as wide as the sea. We are today overrun with orthodox scribes, but the prophets, where are they? The hard voice of the scribe sounds over evangelicalism, but the Church waits for the tender voice of the saint who has penetrated the veil and has gazed with inward eye upon the Wonder that is God. And yet, thus to penetrate, to push in sensitive living experience into the holy Presence, is a privilege open to every child of God.

Topics: Children, Eye, Voice, Scribes

The cross where Jesus died became also the cross where His apostle died. The loss, the rejection, the shame, belong both to Christ and to all who in very truth are His. the cross that saves them also slays them, and anything short of this is a pseudo-faith and not true faith at all.

Topics: Jesus, Loss, Rejection

The experiences of men who walked with God in olden times agree to teach that the Lord cannot fully bless the a man until He has first conquered him. The degree of blessing enjoyed by any man will correspond exactly with the completeness of God's victory over him.

Topics: Blessing, Men, Victory, Olden Times

I remind you that there are churches so completely out of the hands of God that if the Holy Spirit withdrew from them, they wouldn't find it out for many months

Topics: Hands, Church, Months

This is the tragedy and woe of the hour--that we neglect the most important One who could possibly be in our midst--the Holy Spirit of God. Then, in order to make up for His absence, we have to do something to keep up our own spirits.

Topics: Order, Tragedy, Important

I do not think I exaggerate when I say that some of us put our offering in the plate with a kind of triumphant bounce as much as to say: "There - now God will feel better!" I am obliged to tell you that God does not need anything you have. He does not need a dime of your money. It is your own spiritual welfare at stake in such matters as these. You have the right to keep what you have all to yourself - but it will rust and decay, and ultimately ruin you.

Topics: Spiritual, Feel Better, Thinking, Obliged

Faith is the gaze of a soul upon a saving God.

Topics: Soul, Saving

One of the purest souls ever to live on this fallen planet was Nicholas Herman, known as Brother Lawrence. He wrote very little, but what he wrote has seemed to several generations of Christians to be so rare and so beautiful as to deserve a place near the top among the world's great books of devotion. The writings of Brother Lawrence are the ultimate in simplicity; ideas woven like costly threads to make a pattern of great beauty.

Topics: Beautiful, Christian, Brother

The fact of God is necessary for the fact of man. Think God away and man has no ground of existence.

Topics: Men, Thinking, Facts

We can never know who or what we are till we know at least something of what God is.

Topics: Christian Inspirational

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.

Topics: Philosophy, Ideas, Giving

Wherever we turn in the church of God, there is Jesus. He is the beginning, middle and end of everything to us....

Topics: Jesus, Church, Ends, Beginning Middle And End

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.

Topics: Thinking, Discovery, Self, Leisure Time

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