Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

The Christian is prepared to say, 'I don't like the sound of this, ... but if this is what it really means, I'm going to have to pray for grace and strength to get that into my heart and be shaped by it.'

Faith implies four things: self-renunciation, reliance with utter confidence on Christ, obedience, and a changed life.

Sanctification costs to the extent of "an intense narrowing of all our interests on earth and an immense broadening of all our interests in God.

To follow Jesus means putting him first, and stripping ourselves of all the things that oppress our hearts.

A "godly" person is one who ceases to be self-centered in order to become God-centered.

Sometimes, God may prioritize performing a miracle on our hearts and minds over a miracle concerning our circumstances.

If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day.

One of the greatest hindrances in coming to Jesus is the excuse of temperament. We make our temperament and our natural affinities barriers to coming to Jesus. The first thing we realize when we come to Jesus is that He pays no attention whatever to our natural affinities. We have the notion that we can consecrate our gifts to God. You cannot consecrate what is not yours; there is only one thing you can consecrate to God, and that is your right to yourself (Romans 12:1). If you will give God your right to yourself, He will make a holy experiment out of you. God’s experiments always succeed

Give your life to Christ, he'll challenge you.

No man can put on the robes of Christ’s righteousness till he has taken off his own.

The goal of revelation is not information only, but affection, worship, and obedience. Christ in us will be realized only as we drink deeply of the Bible, which is God's word outside of us

Get alone with Jesus and either tell Him that you do not want sin to die out in you - or else tell Him that at all costs you want to be identified with His death.

The fruits of this profound union with Jesus are marvelous: our whole being is transformed by the grace of the Holy Spirit: soul, intelligence, will, affections and even the body, because we are united in body and spirit.

The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.

Holiness does not consist in mystic speculations, enthusiastic fervours, or uncommanded austerities; it consists in thinking as God thinks, and willing as God wills.

Before we can strengthen believers or win the lost, we must be converted from the self-life to the Christ-life. . . "Not I, but Christ."

Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.

If everything proceeded according to their wishes, they would not understand what it means to follow God.

Prayer is fundamentally a transformation of will, a lifting of the heart and will to God.

We all seem to get this idea that, in order to be sacred, we have to make some massive, drastic change of character, that we have to renounce our individuality. To know God, you only need to renounce one thing - your sense of division from God

Your real, new self (which is Christ's and also yours, and yours just because it is His) will not come as long as you are looking for it. It will come when you are looking for Him.

You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage but He is building a palace. He intends to come & live in it Himself

Nearness to God brings likeness to God. The more you see God the more of God will be seen in you.

Meditation, you know, comes by a process imagination. You go through all these processes purification of the elements - making the one melt the other, that into the next higher, that into mind, that into spirit, and then you are spirit.

The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ takes the slums out of people, and then they take themselves out of the slums. The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.