Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

If Jesus Christ isn't the central figure in our lives and in our churches, we're only fooling ourselves.

Toleration made the world anti-Christian.

The modern way with God is to set him at a distance, if not to deny him altogether; and the irony is that modern Christians, preoccupied with maintaining religious practices in an irreligous world, have themselves allowed God to become remote...for churchmen who look at God through the wrong end of the telescope, so reducing him to pigmy proportions, cannot hope to end up as more than pigmy Christians.

A whole new generation of Christians has come up believing that it is possible to 'accept' Christ without forsaking the world.

Many journalists seem to desire 'liberation' from Christian roots.

The life of Jesus Christ is a message of hope, a message of mercy, a message of life in a dark world.

Saying a prayer won't make you a Christian. Placing your faith in Christ as your savior makes you a Christian.

Christianity affirms that at the heart of reality is a Heart, a loving Father who works through history for the salvation of His children. Man cannot save himself, for man is not the measure of all things and humanity is not God. Bound by the chains of his own sin and finiteness, man needs a Savior.

The Secular City, having legislated and litigated itself out of any entanglement with the City of God, would be a hell upon earth .

If I were called upon to identify briefly the principal trait of the entire 20th century... I would be unable to find anything more precise and pithy than to repeat once again: Men have forgotten God.

Jesus is the hope of the world and the local church is the vehicle of expressing that hope to the world.

Christianity teaches that when man sinned, God opted for forgiveness rather than fairness. He opted for grace and mercy rather than justice.

The low view of God entertained almost universally among Christians is the cause of a hundred lesser evils everywhere among us.

Have we come to the point where it is now considered a secular blasphemy to acknowledge the name of God at all?

We shall not rest until we have rooted out Christianity .

Today Christians ... stand at the head of [this country]... I pledge that I never will tie myself to parties who want to destroy Christianity .. We want to fill our culture again with the Christian spirit ... We want to burn out all the recent immoral developments in literature, in the theater, and in the press - in short, we want to burn out the poison of immorality which has entered into our whole life and culture as a result of liberal excess during the past ... (few) years.

Christians should be the boldest people in the world-not cocky and sure of ourselves, but sure of Him.

I think, a lot of things get wrestled around with Christianity in this day and age about what it means, what it stands for and I think it gets the wrong connotation all over the world. So, for me, using baseball and using Jesus' name - I really just want to focus on Him. I don't want to think about Christianity or the religious aspect of it. You just want to focus on Jesus and loving Jesus. Saying you're a Christian shouldn't turn people off. You should love people well and that's Jesus' first commandment!

We see that it is not the task of Christianity to provide easy answers to every question, but to make us progressively aware of a mystery. God is not so much the object of our knowledge as the cause of our wonder.

This whole process of education is to be religious, and not only religious, but Christian. And as Christianity is the only true religion, and God in Christ the only true God, the only possible means of profitable education is the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

It is interesting to me that the secularizers bend over backward in our federally controlled schools to keep atheists from being offended by the mention of God, prayer, or morality, yet over the federally controlled airwaves Christians can be offended every day of the week by the broadcasting of blasphemy against God and the Lord Jesus Christ or attacks on our moral values.

Christians are not so much in danger when they are persecuted as when they are admired.

Many of us have a mental conception of what a Christian should be, and the lives of the saints become a hindrance to our concentration on God.

Conservatives should be adamant about the need for the reappearance of Judeo-Christianity in the public square.

The Christian is a [person] of joy... A gloomy Christian is a contradiction of terms, and nothing in all religious history has done Christianity more harm than its connection with black clothes and long faces.