Aiden Wilson Tozer
Aiden Wilson Tozer
Aiden Wilson Tozerwas an American Christian pastor, preacher, author, magazine editor, and spiritual mentor. For his work, he received two honorary doctoral degrees...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth21 April 1897
CountryUnited States of America
winter men thinking
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.
order
Nothing is complete in itself but requires something outside itself in order to exist.
creator-god needs sovereign
To admit the existence of a need in God is to admit incompleteness in the divine Being. Need is a creature-word and cannot be spoken of the Creator. God has a voluntary relationg to everything He has made, but He has no Necessary relation to anything outside of Himself. His interest in His creatures arises from His sovereign good pleasure, not from any need those creatures can supply nor from any completeness they can dring to Him who is complete in himself.
moving imperfection needs
Teach us, O God, that nothing is necessary to Thee. Were anything necessary to Thee that thing would be the measure of Thine imperfection: and how could we worship one who is imperfect? If nothing is necessary to Thee, then no one is necessary, and if no one, then not we. Thou dost seek us though Thou does not need us. We seek Thee because we need Thee, for in Thee we live and move and have our being. Amen.
real fabulous inspired
Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith.
heart men church
For this reason the gravest question before the Church is always God Himself, and the most portentous fact about any man is not what he at a given time may say or do, but what he is his deep heart conceives God to be like.
faith lying character
True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie.
waiting world resurrection
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.
crush jesus mean
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.
want presence-of-god
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.
men play laughing
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.
mind worship ifs
You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him.
idols hands mind
An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.
looks morality natural
We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it as the natural and expected thing.