Quote

The essence of surrender is getting out of God's way so that He can do in us what He also wants to do through us.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Aiden Wilson Tozer
Age: 66 †
Born: 1897
Born: April 21
Died: 1963
Died: May 12
Author
Clergyman
Theologian
Writer
Pennsylvania
United States
Aiden Wilson Tozer
Essence
Wants
Religious
Getting
Christian
Also
Way
Surrender
God

More quotes by Aiden Wilson Tozer

Image
Light means nothing to a blind man.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
Image
I contend that whatever does not raise the moral standard of the church or community has been a revival from God.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
Image
Wherever the Word comes without power its essential content is missed.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
Image
Teach us to know that we cannot know, for the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. Let faith support us where reason fails, and we shall think because we believe, not in order that we may believe.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
Image
No one can know the true grace of God who has not first known the fear of God.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
Image
Anything that God has declared that we should be we can be.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
Image
In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
Image
Whoever will listen will hear the speaking heaven. This is definitely not the hour when men take kindly to an exhortation to listen, for listening is not today a part of popular religion. We are at the opposite end of the pole from there. Religion has accepted the monstrous heresy that noise, size, activity and bluster make a man dear to God.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
Image
The author squares man's depravity with still being made in the image of God with this word picture. A vase that has held beautiful roses though now broken, will nevertheless hold something of the fragrance it once contained.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
Image
A thankful heart cannot be cynical.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
Image
Selfishness is never so exquisitely selfish as when it is on its knees. ... Self turns what would otherwise be a pure and powerful prayer into a weak and ineffective one.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
Image
The desire to fulfill the purpose for which we were created is a gift from God.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
Image
How frightful a thing it is for the preacher when he becomes accustomed to his work, when his sense of wonder departs, when he gets used to the unusual, when he loses his solemn fear in the presence of the High and Holy One when, to put it bluntly, he gets a little bored with God and heavenly things.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
Image
Yes, worship of the loving God is man's whole reason for existence.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
Image
Gratitude is an offering precious in the sight of God, and it is one that the poorest of us can make and be not poorer but richer for having made it.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
Image
The fruit is what really matters, not how gnarly or beautiful the apple tree is.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
Image
The Christian is a holy rebel loose in the world with access to the throne of God.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
Image
To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul's paradox of love, scorned indeed by the too-easily-satisfied religionist, but justified in happy experience by the children of the burning heart.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
Image
I claim the holy right to disappoint men in order to avoid disappointing God.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not only a book which was once spoken, but a book which is now speaking.
Aiden Wilson Tozer