Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

If we esteem them too highly, good works can become the greatest idolatry.

I've been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning box, that He doesn't want to just be with you for an hour or two on Sunday morning and then put back in His box to sit there until you have an emergency, but He wants to invade your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

When I put my faith in Jesus Christ as my savior, and I asked him to forgive and to come into my life, and He does - from that moment forward I have established a personal relationship with God that I have to develop, you know, through Bible reading and prayer, and living my life for him.

Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves.

The Word we study has to be the Word we pray.

The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.

Christianity is a lifestyle. And being a Christian is more than a label.

The way to be with God in every season is to strive to be near Him every week and each day.

For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness.

Sing the songs of joy to the Lord, serve the Name of the Lord, and become the servant of His servants.

I think that's a struggle of every Christian, to be able to get to that point where they're in constant prayer with God - so that everything they do, in thought, in speech, in work, is praising God and worshipping God.

Christian teaching about sex is not a set of isolated prohibitions; it is an integral part of what the Bible has to say about living in such a way that our lives communicate the character of God.

First Fruits is more than just an offering... it's a principle.

I go to wherever God calls me, wherever the church calls me to come to minister and preach the word of God.

I am growing and understanding more of who God is in my life and how I am to minister.

The effect of our knowledge rather ought to be, first, to teach us reverence and fear; and, secondly, to induce us, under its guidance and teaching, to ask every good thing from [God], and, when it is received, ascribe it to him. For how can the idea of God enter your mind without instantly giving rise to the thought, that since you are his workmanship, you are bound, by the very law of creation, to submit to his authority?-\-\that your life is due to him?-\-\that whatever you do ought to have reference to him.

Prayer is not just getting ready for Christian service. Prayer is Christian service.

I never saw a fruit-bearing Christian who was not a student of the Bible.

A wise man had said that your Christian life is like a three-legged stool. The legs are doctrine, experience and practice, which is obedience; and you, will not stay upright unless all three are there. In recent years many Christians have not kept these three together.

Prayer can never be in excess.

In our competitive world we're taught to never quit trying, never give up, and never give in - so we don't hear much about surrendering. If winning is everything, surrendering is unthinkable. Even Christians would rather talk about winning, succeeding, overcoming, and conquering than yielding, submitting, obeying, and surrendering. But surrendering to God is the heart of worship.

Nothing is more vital than prayer in Christian existence, and few things are more vulnerable to neglect.

The secret of the Christian's passion is simple: Everything we do in life we do it as to the Lord and not to men.

Can you worship a God who isn't obligated to explain His actions to you? Could it be your arrogance that makes you think God owes you an explanation?

When you use your life for God's glory, everything you do can become an act of worship