Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
You will never be more than a common Christian until you give up your own interest and cease defending yourself.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Never
Defending
Cease
Interest
Common
Christian
Give
Giving
More quotes by Aiden Wilson Tozer
The most critical need of the church at this moment is men, bold men, free men. The church must seek, in prayer and much humility, the coming again of men made of the stuff of which prophets and martyrs are made.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
Faith in God is to be demonstrated, not defined.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
If we insist upon trying to imagine Him, we end with an idol, made not with hands but with thoughts and an idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits on the undeserving.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
All things else being equal, our prayers are only as powerful as our lives. In the long pull we only pray as well as we live.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
Nothing should so occupy the mind of the Christian than discovering God each day.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
Many Christians are satisfied with their destination but they neglect the journey.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
Genuine Christian experience must always include an encounter with God Himself.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
One compromise here, another there and soon enough the so-called Christian and the man in the world look the same.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
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
The abuse of a harmless thing is the essence of sin.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
The meek man will attain a place of soul rest. As he walks on in meekness he will be happy to let God defend him. The old struggle to defend himself is over. He has found the peace which meekness brings.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
We must do something about the cross, and there’s only one of two things we can do- flee it or die upon it!
Aiden Wilson Tozer
We operate by faith, which means that we have confidence in what God says, whether we fully understand it or not
Aiden Wilson Tozer
Most Christians don't hear God's voice because we've already decided we aren't going to do what He says.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
Jesus Christ knows the worst about you. Nonetheless, He is the one who loves you the most.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
The faith of Christ offers no buttons to push for quick service. The new order must wait the Lord's own time, and that is too much for the man in a hurry. He just gives up and becomes interested in something else.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
The heart that knows God can find God anywhere.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
