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
religious soul useless
Religious externals may have meaning for the God-inhabited soul; for any others they are not only useless but may actually become snares, deceiving them into a false and perilous sense of security.
reality men people
The love of God is one of the great realities of the universe, a pillar upon which the hope of the world rests. But it is a personal, intimate thing too. God does not love populations, He loves people. He loves not masses, but men.
Faith creates nothing; it simply reckons upon that which is already there.
heart giving missing
Most of us go through life praying a little, planning a little, jockeying for position, hoping but never being quite certain of anything, and always secretly afraid that we will miss the way. This is a tragic waste of truth and never gives rest to the heart.
spiritual congratulations pride
Nothing that comes from God will minister to my pride of self-congratulation. If I am tempted to be complacent and to feel superior because I have had a remarkable vision or an advanced spiritual experience, I should go at once to my knees and repent of the whole thing. I have fallen victim to the enemy.
christian strong knowledge-of-god
The Christian is strong or weak depending upon how closely he has cultivated the knowledge of God.
prayer sacred occupation
Prayer is the most sacred occupation a person could engage in.
religious mistake nice
Our mistake is that we want God to send revival on our terms. We want to get the power of God into our hands, to call it to us that it may work for us in promoting and furthering our kind of Christianity. We want still to be in charge, guiding the chariot through the religious sky in the direction we want it to go, shouting “Glory to God,” but modestly accepting a share of the glory for ourselves in a nice inoffensive sort of way. We are calling on God to send fire on our altars, completely ignoring the fact that they are OUR altars and not God’s....
men may surface
Powerless religion may put a man through many surface changes and leave him exactly what he was before.
religious spring circles
One of the most popular current errors, and the one out of which springs most of the noisy, blustering religious activity in evangelical circles, is the notion that as times change the church must change with them.
God expects of us only what He Himself has supplied.
love-is thinking self
The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed. Think whether much of your sorrow has not arisen from someone speaking slightingly of you. As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal, how can you hope to find inward peace?
leader desire heritage
A true leader will have no desire to lord it over God’s heritage. He is rather ready to follow as well as lead.
hate thinking pleasure
What do we value most? What would we most hate to lose? What do our thoughts turn to most frequently when we are free to think of what we will? And finally, what affords us the greatest pleasure?