September 4th, 2004
Favorite quotes from Aiden Wilson Tozer, author of Pursuit of God…
What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.
One of the most stinging criticisms made against Christians is that their minds are narrow and their hearts small.
We must do something about the cross… flee it or die upon it.
God may allow His servant to succeed when He has disciplined him to a point where he does not need to succeed to be happy.
Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.
Man is bored because he is too big to be happy with that which sin is giving him. God has made him too great, his potential too mighty.
Whatever a man wants persistently enough will determine his character.
Our pursuit of God is successful because He is forever seeking to manifest Himself to us.
Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down by destroying our solitude, where otherwise we might drink and renew our strength before going out to face the world again.
To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.
Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free. No one can hinder him.
An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.
Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.
If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?
In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we’re pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker’s praise without anxiety.
Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul.
No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.
The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.
If there’s anything necessary to your eternal happiness but God, you’re not the kind of Christian that you ought to be.
The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.
The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.
Faith never means gullibility. The man who believes everything is as far from God as the man who refuses to believe anything.
The only fear I have is to fear to get out of the will of God. Outside of the will of God, there’s nothing I want, and in the will of God there’s nothing I fear.
Men who refuse to worship the true God now worship themselves with tender devotion.
The Bible recognizes no faith that does not lead to obedience, nor does it recognize any obedience that does not spring from faith.
The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can’t make a wrong choice. Any choice will be the right one.
Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God.
Much of our difficulty as seeking Christians stems from our unwillingness to take God as He is and adjust our lives accordingly. We insist upon trying to modify Him and to bring Him nearer to our own image.
Truth is a glorious but hard mistress. She never consults, bargains or compromises.
Every man is as holy as he really wants to be.
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