Quotes about chris
christian prayer blessed
While we are looking at God we do not see ourselves-blessed riddance. Aiden Wilson Tozer
christian prayer humble
Leadership requires vision, and whence will vision come except from hours spent in the presence of God in humble and fervent prayer? Aiden Wilson Tozer
christian prayer answers
God answers our prayers not because we are good, but because He is good. Aiden Wilson Tozer
christian christian-inspirational faces
The gravest question any of us face is whether we do or do not love the Lord. Aiden Wilson Tozer
christian strong teaching
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. Aiden Wilson Tozer
christian watches lord
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. Aiden Wilson Tozer
christian wise heart
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. Aiden Wilson Tozer
christian world certainty
We must meet the uncertainties of this world with the certainty of the world to come. Aiden Wilson Tozer
christian men choices
Men are free to decide their own moral choices, but they are also under the necessity to account to God for those choices. Aiden Wilson Tozer
christian believe praying
Pray; and as you pray, surrender; and as you surrender, believe. Aiden Wilson Tozer
christian prayer thinking
It's not my business to try and make God think like me... but to try, in prayer and penitence, to think like God. Aiden Wilson Tozer
christian hate sake
Satan hates God for His own sake, and everything that is dear to God he hates for the very reason that God loves it. Aiden Wilson Tozer
christian growing-knowledge progress
Progress in the Christian life is exactly equal to the growing knowledge we gain of the Triune God in personal experience. Aiden Wilson Tozer
christian spiritual prayer
The Christian's heart must be soaked in prayer before the true spiritual fruits begin to grow. Aiden Wilson Tozer
christian lust trying
Christians alone are in a position to rescue the perishing. We dare not settle down to try to live as if things were 'normal.' Nothing is normal while sin and lust and death roam the world, pouncing upon one and another till the whole population has been destroyed. Aiden Wilson Tozer
christian soul wounded
All great Christians have been wounded souls. Aiden Wilson Tozer
christian believe civilization
I am among those who believe that our Western civilization is on its way to perishing. It has many commendable qualities, most of which it has borrowed from the Christian ethic, but it lacks the element of moral wisdom that would give it permanence. Future historians will record that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it. Aiden Wilson Tozer
christian bored littles
How frightful a thing it is for the preacher when he becomes accustomed to his work, when his sense of wonder departs, when he gets used to the unusual, when he loses his solemn fear in the presence of the High and Holy One; when, to put it bluntly, he gets a little bored with God and heavenly things. Aiden Wilson Tozer
christian lying essence
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
christian spiritual kings
In every Christian's Heart, there is a cross and a throne, and the Christian is on the throne till he puts himself on the cross; if he refuses the cross, he remains on the throne. Perhaps this is at the bottom of the backsliding and worldliness among Gospel believers today. We want to be saved, but we insist that Christ do all the dying. No cross for us, no dethronement, no dying. We remain king within the little kingdom of man's soul and wear our tinsel crown with all the pride of a caesar; but we doom ourselves to shadows and weakness and spiritual sterility. Aiden Wilson Tozer
christian church next
Our most pressing obligation is to do all in our power to obtain a revival that will result in a reformed, revitalized, purified church. Each generation of Christians is the seed of the next, and degenerate seed is sure to produce a degenerate harvest. Aiden Wilson Tozer
christian evil doubt
There can be no doubt that this possessive clinging to things is one of the most harmful habits in the [christian] life. Because it is so natural, it is rarely recognized for the evil that it is. But its outworkings are tragic. Aiden Wilson Tozer
christian exclusion bible-study
Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian. Aiden Wilson Tozer
christian new-year men
Of all persons the Christian should be best prepared for whatever the New Year brings. He has dealt with life at its source. In Christ he has disposed of a thousand enemies that other men must face alone and unprepared. He can face his tomorrow cheerful and unafraid because yesterday he turned his feet into the ways of peace and today he lives in God. The man who has made God his dwelling place will always have a safe habitation. Aiden Wilson Tozer
christian believe heart
The Christian church was designed to make sinners sweat. I have always believed that, and I still believe it. The messages preached in our churches should make backslidden Christians sweat. And if I achieve that objective when I preach, I thank God with all of my heart, no matter what people think of me. Aiden Wilson Tozer
christian prayer thinking
Let us think of a Christian believer in whose life the twin wonders of repentance and the new birth have been wrought. He is now living according to the will of God as he understands it from the written Word. Of such a one it may be said that every act of his life is or can be as truly sacred as prayer or baptism or the Lord's Supper. To say this is not to bring all acts down to one dead level; it is rather to lift every act up into a living kingdom and turn the whole of life into a sacrament. Aiden Wilson Tozer
christian spiritual religious
One of the greatest foes of the Christian is religious complacency.. Orthodox Christianity has fallen to its present low estate from lack of spiritual desire. Among the many who profess the Christian faith, scarcely one in a thousand reveals any passionate thirst for God. Aiden Wilson Tozer
christian real heart
Our error today is that we do not expect a converted man to be a transformed man, and as a result of this error our churches are full of substandard Christians. A revival is among other things a return to the belief that real faith invariably produces holiness of heart and righteousness of life. Aiden Wilson Tozer
christian eye defense
A Christian should put away all defense and make no attempt to excuse himself either in his own eyes or before the Lord. Whoever defends himself will have himself for his defense, and he will have no other. But let him come defenseless before the Lord and he will have for his defender no less than God Himself. Aiden Wilson Tozer
christian strong knowledge-of-god
The Christian is strong or weak depending upon how closely he has cultivated the knowledge of God. Aiden Wilson Tozer
christian years opinion
It is my opinion that the Christian conception of God current in these middle years of the twentieth century is so decadent as to be utterly beneath the dignity of the Most High God and actually to constitute for professed believers something amounting to a moral calamity. Aiden Wilson Tozer
christian spiritual men
In my creature impatience I am often caused to wish that there were some way to bring modern Christians into a deeper spiritual life painlessly by short, easy lessons; but such wishes are vain. No shortcut exists. God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. It is well that we accept the hard truth now: The man who would know God must give time to Him. Aiden Wilson Tozer
christian insatiable-hunger common
Most Christians are satisfied living as common Christians, without an insatiable hunger for the deeper things of God. Aiden Wilson Tozer